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H22 • 2025

An Act providing for statement of financial interests flexibility

An Act providing for statement of financial interests flexibility

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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

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

An Act providing for statement of financial interests flexibility

An Act providing for statement of financial interests flexibility So much of the recommendations of the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act providing for statement of financial interests flexibility So much of the recommendations of the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (House, No.
  • 18) as relates to providing for statement of financial interests flexibility Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-12-15 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

  2. 2025-04-09 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 04/14/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in A-1

  3. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Public Service

  4. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act providing for statement of financial interests flexibility
So much of the recommendations of the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (House, No. 18) as relates to providing for statement of financial interests flexibility
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.22

SECTION 1. Paragraph (a) of section 20C of chapter 32 of the general laws, as appearing in the 2022 official edition, is hereby amended by inserting, in line 7, after the fourth “retirement board” the following: “,provided, however, that no retirement board member shall be required to file a statement of financial interests for the year in which he or she ceased to be a retirement board member if he or she served for less than thirty days in such year.”

SECTION 2. Section 20C of chapter 32 of the general laws, as appearing in the 2022 official edition, is hereby amended in line 78 by inserting after the words “section 16.”, the following: “A board member may petition the commission for a waiver of their removal from the board and their exclusion from future board service due to extenuating circumstances, provided that the member files their statement of financial interest by a date set by the commission.”

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