By Ms. Candaras, a petition (accompanied by bill,
Senate, No. 1472) of Gale D. Candaras, Angelo J. Puppolo,
Jr., Bruce E. Tarr, Christine E. Canavan and other members
of the General Court for legislation relative to
creditable service for service rendered as a volunteer in
the Peace Corps and Americorps. Public Service.
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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:
SECTION 1. Chapter 32 of the General Laws, as
appearing in the 2000 Official Edition, is amended in subsection (1) of section
4 by adding the following new subsection:—
(s)
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, a
member in service of the state employees’ or teachers’ retirement system or a
retirement system of a city, town, county, region or district as defined in
section one who served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, Volunteers in Service
to America (VISTA), AmeriCorps VISTA, Teacher Corps,
the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service, or the
Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who
completes fifteen or more years of membership service shall receive full credit
for the period of such volunteer service up to, but not exceeding three years.
Eligibility for said creditable service shall be conditioned upon payment, in
one sum or in installments upon such terms as the state retirement board or the
teacher’s retirement board or a retirement system of a city, town, county,
region or district may provide, into the annuity savings fund of the state
employees, teachers retirement system or a retirement system of a city, town,
county, region or district an amount equal to the contributions such member
would have otherwise paid into the retirement system for the period of
volunteer service based upon the annual salary the member received in the first
year of membership service after said volunteer service; provided further that
such creditable service shall not be allowed for any period of active service
for which said volunteer has received credit pursuant to paragraph (f) of
subsection (1) of section 4 of chapter 32.
