H33 • 2025

An Act relative to the definition of wages for retirement calculations

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Sponsor: Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System
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 the definition of wages for retirement calculations

An Act relative to the definition of wages for retirement calculations So much of the recommendations of the Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System (House, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act relative to the definition of wages for retirement calculations So much of the recommendations of the Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System (House, No.
26) as relates to the definition of wages for retirement calculations 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 the definition of wages for retirement calculations
So much of the recommendations of the Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System (House, No. 26) as relates to the definition of wages for retirement calculations
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill H.33

SECTION 1. Section 1 of Chapter 32 is hereby amended by adding at the end of the definition of “wages” the following paragraph:

Notwithstanding the foregoing, wages shall also include payments made by an employer to an employee in supplementation of weekly incapacity payments under the provisions of sections sixty-nine to seventy-five inclusive of chapter one hundred fifty-two, or of sections thirty-four, thirty-four A, thirty-four B, thirty-five A, thirty-five F, thirty-six, until a retirement allowance becomes effective for him under the provisions of sections one to twenty-eight inclusive of this chapter. The extent to which these supplemental payments are considered wages shall be limited, when combined with such incapacity payments, to the amount that in the determination of the retirement board the member would have received during the applicable time period, had they not been so incapacitated.

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