By Ms. Fox of Boston, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2515) of Gloria L. Fox for legislation to grant creditable service for retirement purposes to certain employees of the Committee for Public Counsel Services for service as employees of the Roxbury Defenders Committee, Incorporated.  Public Service.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Gloria L. Fox

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act authorizing certain public defenders creditable retirement time for service as employees of Roxbury Defenders.

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    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

   Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the state retirement board is hereby authorized and directed to credit the following employees of the Committee for Public Counsel Services creditable service for the years of their employment with the Roxbury Defenders Committee, Inc, for the purpose of determining their retirement allowance pursuant to section 4 of chapter 32 of the General Laws: Yolanda Acevedo, JoAnn Donovan, William Hill, Jr., Tauheedah Shakur, Mary Ann Thomas, Carlo Obligato and Antoinette DaGraca; provided, however, they shall pay into the annuity savings fund of the state retirement fund, in one sum or installments, upon such terms and conditions as the board may prescribe, an amount equal to that which would have been withheld as regular deductions from their regular compensation for such previous service, plus interest.