H2958 • 2025

An Act authorizing Thomas Struthers to purchase creditable service from the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement board

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Sponsor: Margaret R. Scarsdale
Last action: 2025-08-25
Official status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act authorizing Thomas Struthers to purchase creditable service from the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement board

An Act authorizing Thomas Struthers to purchase creditable service from the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement board By Representative Scarsdale of Pepperell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act authorizing Thomas Struthers to purchase creditable service from the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement board By Representative Scarsdale of Pepperell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
2958) of Margaret R.
Scarsdale relative to authorizing Thomas Struthers to purchase creditable service from the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement Board.
Public Service.

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Bill History

2025-08-25 House
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2025-05-08 Joint
Hearing scheduled for 05/12/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 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 authorizing Thomas Struthers to purchase creditable service from the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement board
By Representative Scarsdale of Pepperell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2958) of Margaret R. Scarsdale relative to authorizing Thomas Struthers to purchase creditable service from the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement Board. Public Service.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill H.2958

Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement board shall credit Thomas Struthers, an employee of Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School, with 3 years of creditable service for the period of 1983-2000, inclusive, when he worked in the occupational field in which he teaches, for the purpose of determining his superannuation retirement allowance under paragraph (a) of subdivision (2) of section 5 of chapter 32. Before the date that any retirement allowance becomes effective in the case of Thomas Struthers, he shall pay into the annuity savings fund of the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement system, in 1 sum or installments, upon such terms and conditions as the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement system may prescribe, an amount equal to that which would have been withheld as regular deductions from his regular compensation for such previous service, together with buyback interest, as defined in section 1 of said chapter 32. This act shall not affect any other retirement benefits that Thomas Struthers may otherwise be entitled to.

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