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H3963 • 2025

An Act relative to the retirement of Greg Heath, a former firefighter of the city of Westfield

An Act relative to the retirement of Greg Heath, a former firefighter of the city of Westfield

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Sponsor
Kelly W. Pease
Last action
2025-10-02
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
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An Act relative to the retirement of Greg Heath, a former firefighter of the city of Westfield

An Act relative to the retirement of Greg Heath, a former firefighter of the city of Westfield By Representative Pease of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to the retirement of Greg Heath, a former firefighter of the city of Westfield By Representative Pease of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3963) of Kelly W.
  • Pease (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the retirement of Greg Heath, a former firefighter of the city of Westfield.
  • Public Service.

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-02 House

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

  2. 2025-10-02 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2025-10-02 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  4. 2025-08-21 House

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

  5. 2025-05-01 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 05/07/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1

  6. 2025-04-03 Senate

    Senate concurred

  7. 2025-03-31 House

    Referred to the committee on Public Service

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to the retirement of Greg Heath, a former firefighter of the city of Westfield
By Representative Pease of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3963) of Kelly W. Pease (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the retirement of Greg Heath, a former firefighter of the city of Westfield. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill H.3963

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding chapter 32 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary the Westfield retirement board shall retire Greg Heath under section 7 of chapter 32 based upon any condition of impairment of health caused by Parkinson's Disease which it determines was incurred as a result of his employment.

SECTION 2. The payments provided for in this act shall only be made after said member has been examined by a medical panel, pursuant to section 6 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, which has certified by a majority of the medical panel physicians that said member is mentally or physically incapacitated from further duty, that such incapacity is likely to be permanent, and that such incapacity is such as might be the natural and proximate result of Parkinson's Disease; provided, however, that the public employee retirement administration commission may, upon request, waive such medical panel examination if the member has previously been examined by a medical panel and is receiving a disability benefit as of the effective date of this act. The commission shall promptly notify the retirement system of such waiver.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon September 26, 2020.

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