By Mr. D'Amico of Seekonk, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4605) of Steven J. D'Amico that the Teachers' Retirement Board be directed to grant creditablelservice to Jeanne Hicks for service outside of the Commonwealth. Public Service.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Steven J. D'Amico

James E. Timilty

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In the Year Two Thousand and Eight.

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An Act authorizing and directing the Teachers' Retirement Board to permit Jeanne Hicks to purchase certain out of state teaching service

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

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law or rule or regulation to the contrary, the teacher’s retirement board is hereby authorized and directed to permit Jeanne Hicks to purchase creditable service in the teacher’s retirement system for her public school teaching in New York State under the provisions of subsection four of section three of chapter thirty-two of the general laws, notwithstanding her receipt of any pension or retirement allowance as a result of said New York State teaching service; provided, however, that any increase in Jeanne Hicks’s retirement allowance as a result of such purchase of service shall be reduced by the amount of any New York State pension or retirement allowance to which she is entitled.

SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.