H20 • 2025

An Act relative to post retirement earnings

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Sponsor: Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission
Last action: 2025-12-15
Official status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act relative to post retirement earnings

An Act relative to post retirement earnings So much of the recommendations of the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (House, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act relative to post retirement earnings So much of the recommendations of the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (House, No.
18) as relates to post retirement earnings Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill History

2025-12-15 House
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2025-04-09 Joint
Hearing scheduled for 04/14/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in A-1
2025-02-27 House
Referred to the committee on Public Service
2025-02-27 Senate
Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to post retirement earnings
So much of the recommendations of the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (House, No. 18) as relates to post retirement earnings
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill H.20

Section 1. Paragraph (b) of Section 91 of Chapter 32 as most recently amended by chapter 141 of the Acts of 2024 is hereby amended by striking everything after the phrase “whichever is greater” and inserting “provided however that after one entire calendar year has elapsed, such earnings, in any calendar year, when added to any pension or retirement allowance he is receiving, may include an additional $15,000.”

Section 2. Paragraph (c) of Section 91 of chapter 32 of the general laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official edition, is hereby amended in line 118 by adding:

In the event that any excess is not recovered by the appropriate treasurer or other person responsible for the payment of the compensation, the retirement board of which the member is a retiree may recover an amount equal to the overearnings, but in no event shall such amount exceed the amount of the retirement allowance paid in the year in which the overearnings occurred.

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