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H2871 • 2025

An Act relative to certain option B and option C retirees

An Act relative to certain option B and option C retirees

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Sponsor
Vanna Howard
Last action
2025-10-06
Official status
Accompanied H2787
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act relative to certain option B and option C retirees

An Act relative to certain option B and option C retirees By Representative Howard of Lowell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to certain option B and option C retirees By Representative Howard of Lowell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 2871) of Vanna Howard relative to certain public employee retirement system option B and option C retirees.
  • Public Service.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-10-06 House

    Accompanied H2787

  2. 2025-06-20 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 06/25/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 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 relative to certain option B and option C retirees
By Representative Howard of Lowell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2871) of Vanna Howard relative to certain public employee retirement system option B and option C retirees. Public Service.

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Bill H.2871

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, a member as defined in section 1 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, who retired before July 1, 2004 and is receiving a lesser retirement allowance in accordance with the terms of Option (b) or Option (c) of subdivision (2) of section 12 of said chapter 32, from a retirement system that accepts the provisions of this act, shall have the member’s retirement allowance, exclusive of any cost of living adjustments, increased by 4 per cent for Option (b) allowances and 12 per cent for Option (c) allowances. Any retirement system may accept the provisions of this act by a majority vote of the board of each such system, subject to the approval of the legislative body. For the purposes of this act, “legislative body” shall mean, in the case of a city, the city council in accordance with its charter, in the case of a town, the town meeting, in the case of a county, the county retirement board advisory council, in the case of a region, the regional retirement board advisory council, in the case of a district, the district members, and, in the case of an authority, the governing body. For purposes of this act, the state teachers’ and state employees’ retirement systems shall be deemed to have accepted the provisions of this act.

SECTION 2. The provisions of this act shall be prospective from the effective date of this act and shall not entitle any member or spouse of a deceased member to any retroactive benefits.

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