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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 720 FILED ON: 1/13/2025 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2976 |
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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 | | Mark D. Sylvia and Mark C. Montigny |
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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 relative to creditable service for Eileen Mullen, a member of the Massachusetts |
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| 13 | 13 | | Teachers’ retirement system. |
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| 14 | 14 | | _______________ |
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| 15 | 15 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 16 | 16 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Mark D. Sylvia10th Bristol1/13/2025Mark C. MontignySecond Bristol and Plymouth1/13/2025Antonio F. D. Cabral13th Bristol2/13/2025 1 of 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 720 FILED ON: 1/13/2025 |
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| 18 | 18 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2976 |
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| 19 | 19 | | By Representative Sylvia of Fairhaven and Senator Montigny, a joint petition (accompanied by |
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| 20 | 20 | | bill, House, No. 2976) of Mark D. Sylvia, Mark C. Montigny and Antonio F. D. Cabral that the |
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| 21 | 21 | | Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement Board be directed to grant creditable service to Eileen |
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| 22 | 22 | | Mullen for certain service rendered at the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical |
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| 23 | 23 | | High School. Public Service. |
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| 24 | 24 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 25 | 25 | | SEE HOUSE, NO. 3892 OF 2023-2024.] |
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| 26 | 26 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 27 | 27 | | _______________ |
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| 28 | 28 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court |
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| 29 | 29 | | (2025-2026) |
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| 30 | 30 | | _______________ |
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| 31 | 31 | | An Act relative to creditable service for Eileen Mullen, a member of the Massachusetts |
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| 32 | 32 | | Teachers’ retirement system. |
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| 33 | 33 | | Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to |
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| 34 | 34 | | authorize the Massachusetts Teachers’ retirement board to grant creditable service to Eileen |
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| 35 | 35 | | Mullen, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate |
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| 36 | 36 | | preservation of the public convenience. |
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| 37 | 37 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 38 | 38 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 39 | 39 | | 1 Notwithstanding section 4 of chapter 32 of the General Laws or any other general or |
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| 40 | 40 | | 2special law to the contrary, the Massachusetts Teachers’ retirement board shall credit Eileen |
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| 41 | 41 | | 3Mullen, a member of the Massachusetts Teachers’ retirement system, with creditable service for |
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| 42 | 42 | | 4the service she rendered as a teacher in the pilot program for criminal justice at the Greater New |
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| 43 | 43 | | 5Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School in the city of New Bedford from August |
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| 44 | 44 | | 62010 to June 2013 for the purpose of determining her superannuation retirement allowance under 2 of 2 |
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| 45 | 45 | | 7subsection (a) of paragraph (2) of section 5 of said chapter 32. Before the date that any |
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| 46 | 46 | | 8retirement allowance becomes effective in the case of Eileen Mullen, she shall pay into the |
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| 47 | 47 | | 9annuity savings fund of the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement system, in 1 sum or installments, |
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| 48 | 48 | | 10upon such terms and conditions as the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement system may prescribe, |
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| 49 | 49 | | 11an amount equal to that which would have been withheld as regular deductions from her regular |
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| 50 | 50 | | 12compensation for such previous service, together with buyback interest, as defined in section 1 of |
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| 51 | 51 | | 13said chapter 32. This act shall not affect any other retirement benefits that Eileen Mullen may |
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| 52 | 52 | | 14otherwise be entitled to. |
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