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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 447 FILED ON: 1/9/2025 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2816 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Patricia A. Duffy |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act regulating education administrator retirement. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Patricia A. Duffy5th Hampden1/9/2025James C. Arena-DeRosa8th Middlesex2/12/2025John C. VelisHampden and Hampshire3/12/2025 1 of 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 447 FILED ON: 1/9/2025 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2816 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Duffy of Holyoke, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2816) of |
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| 19 | 19 | | Patricia A. Duffy and James C. Arena-DeRosa relative to the retirement benefits of certain |
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| 20 | 20 | | education administrators. Public Service. |
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| 21 | 21 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEE HOUSE, NO. 2511 OF 2023-2024.] |
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| 23 | 23 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 24 | 24 | | _______________ |
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| 25 | 25 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court |
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| 26 | 26 | | (2025-2026) |
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| 27 | 27 | | _______________ |
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| 28 | 28 | | An Act regulating education administrator retirement. |
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| 29 | 29 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 30 | 30 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 31 | 31 | | 1 Subsection 1P of Section 4 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “elect” in line X, the following |
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| 33 | 33 | | 3words:- |
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| 34 | 34 | | 4 Any member of a contributory retirement system who is engaged in an educational |
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| 35 | 35 | | 5administrator position and who was previously engaged in supervising the provision of special |
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| 36 | 36 | | 6education services and ensuring that services specified in each student’s individualized education |
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| 37 | 37 | | 7program are delivered in any non-public school in the commonwealth, if the tuition of all such |
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| 38 | 38 | | 8pupils taught was financed in part or in full by the commonwealth may, before the date any |
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| 39 | 39 | | 9retirement allowance becomes effective for him, establish such service as creditable service by |
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| 40 | 40 | | 10depositing into the annuity savings fund of the system of which he is a member in one sum, or in 2 of 2 |
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| 41 | 41 | | 11installments, upon such terms and conditions as the board may prescribe, an amount equal to five |
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| 42 | 42 | | 12per cent of the compensation received by him during such period of service plus buyback interest |
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| 43 | 43 | | 13to the date of such deposit for such previous period, or most recent portion thereof, as he may |
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| 44 | 44 | | 14elect. |
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