By Mr. Joyce, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate,
No. 1524) of Brian A. Joyce, Jay R. Kaufman, William M.
Straus, Robert A. Antonioni and other members of the
General Court for legislation relative to the retirement
options of certain educational personnel. 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. Paragraph (i) of subdivision (4) of section 5 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the sixth sentence and inserting the following sentence:
A member of a contributory retirement system other than the teachers’ retirement system or a teacher in the State-Boston retirement system, who transfers into the teachers’ retirement system or transfers into the State-Boston retirement system as a teacher may elect to participate in the alternative superannuation retirement benefit program but that election shall occur within 180 days after establishing membership in the teachers’ retirement system or the State-Boston retirement system.
SECTION 2. Paragraph (ii) of said subdivision (4) of said section 5 of said chapter 32, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out the second sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:-
Such member shall have served for not less than 20 years as a teacher in order to be eligible to receive the benefit provided under this subdivision but years of membership service in a contributory retirement system while employed in a public day school in the commonwealth or an education collaborative under section 4E of chapter 40, as a school nurse, school social worker, early childhood teacher, speech, occupational or physical therapist or school business administrator shall be considered years as a teacher for the purposes of this section.
SECTION 3. A school nurse, school social worker, early childhood, speech, occupational or physical therapist, or school business administrator, who on or before July 1, 2001 was eligible to elect to participate in the alternative superannuation retirement benefit program or who transferred from a contributory retirement system to the teachers’ retirement system or the State-Boston retirement system as a teacher under paragraph (i) of subdivision (4) of section 5 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, may elect to do so on or after July 1, 2007 and before January 1, 2008.
