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H3915 • 2025

An Act providing for violent act injury retirement benefits for retirement police officer Leo MacAskill

An Act providing for violent act injury retirement benefits for retirement police officer Leo MacAskill

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Sponsor
Giannino, Jessica Ann
Last action
2025-08-28
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
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An Act providing for violent act injury retirement benefits for retirement police officer Leo MacAskill

An Act providing for violent act injury retirement benefits for retirement police officer Leo MacAskill By Representatives Giannino of Revere and Turco of Winthrop, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act providing for violent act injury retirement benefits for retirement police officer Leo MacAskill By Representatives Giannino of Revere and Turco of Winthrop, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3915) of Jessica Ann Giannino (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to retirement benefits for Leo MacAskill, a retired police officer of the police department of the city of Revere.
  • Public Service.
  • [Local Approval Received.] Status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill History

  1. 2025-08-28 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  2. 2025-08-28 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2025-08-28 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  4. 2025-08-25 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  5. 2025-05-08 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 05/12/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1

  6. 2025-04-17 Senate

    Senate concurred

  7. 2025-03-17 House

    Referred to the committee on Public Service

Official Summary Text

An Act providing for violent act injury retirement benefits for retirement police officer Leo MacAskill
By Representatives Giannino of Revere and Turco of Winthrop, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3915) of Jessica Ann Giannino (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to retirement benefits for Leo MacAskill, a retired police officer of the police department of the city of Revere. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.3915

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, Leo MacAskill, a retired police officer of the Revere police department and a member of the Revere retirement system, may reapply for retirement benefits pursuant to section 7 of chapter 32 of the General Laws. If the Revere retirement board determines pursuant to said section 7 of said chapter 32, as amended by chapter 149 of the acts of 2024, that Leo MacAskill was retired for a violent act injury, all of his retirement benefits dispensed after such determination shall be paid and administered in accordance with retirement for a violent act injury pursuant to said section 7 of said chapter 32, as so amended.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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