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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 899 FILED ON: 1/13/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2806
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Kip A. Diggs
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act relative to creditable service for Lynn Turner, a member of the Massachusetts Teachers’
Retirement System.
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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Kip A. Diggs2nd Barnstable1/13/2025 1 of 2
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 899 FILED ON: 1/13/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2806
By Representative Diggs of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2806) of Kip
A. Diggs relative to providing for creditable service for retirement purposes for Lynn Turner, a
member of the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement System. Public Service.
[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 3645 OF 2023-2024.]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)
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An Act relative to creditable service for Lynn Turner, a member of the Massachusetts Teachers’
Retirement System.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION 1. Notwithstanding section 4 of chapter 32 of the General Laws or any other
2general or special law to the contrary, the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement board shall credit
3Lynn Turner, a member of the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement system, with creditable service
4for the service she rendered as a teacher at the Horace Mann Public Charter School in the town
5of Barnstable from November 30, 2009 to June 30, 2010 for the purpose of determining her
6superannuation retirement allowance under subsection (a) of paragraph (2) of section 5 of said
7chapter 32. Before the date that any retirement allowance becomes effective in the case of Lynn
8Turner, she shall pay into the annuity savings fund of the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement
9system, in 1 sum or installments, upon such terms and conditions as the Massachusetts teachers’
10retirement system may prescribe, an amount equal to that which would have been withheld as 2 of 2
11regular deductions from her regular compensation for such previous service, together with
12buyback interest, as defined in section 1 of said chapter 32. This act shall not affect any other
13retirement benefits that Lynn Turner may otherwise be entitled to.
14 SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.