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S1920 • 2025

An Act providing for a fair and equitable group 4 retirement benefit for police officers working on Massachusetts public higher education campuses

An Act providing for a fair and equitable group 4 retirement benefit for police officers working on Massachusetts public higher education campuses

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Sponsor
John C. Velis
Last action
2026-04-09
Official status
Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act providing for a fair and equitable group 4 retirement benefit for police officers working on Massachusetts public higher education campuses

An Act providing for a fair and equitable group 4 retirement benefit for police officers working on Massachusetts public higher education campuses By Mr.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act providing for a fair and equitable group 4 retirement benefit for police officers working on Massachusetts public higher education campuses By Mr.
  • Velis, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No.
  • 1920) of John C.
  • Velis, Angelo J.

Limits and Unknowns

  • 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. 2026-04-09 Senate

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means

  2. 2026-01-15 Senate

    Reporting date extended to Tuesday March 17, 2026

  3. 2025-09-26 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 10/08/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-2

  4. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Referred to the committee on Public Service

  5. 2025-02-27 House

    House concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act providing for a fair and equitable group 4 retirement benefit for police officers working on Massachusetts public higher education campuses
By Mr. Velis, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1920) of John C. Velis, Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr., Michael O. Moore, Hannah Kane and other members of the General Court for legislation to correct inequities regarding the retirement of state-employed and special authority-employed police officers. Public Service.
Status:
Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill S.1920

Section 3 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting in line 297, after the word "Authority;" the following:-

“any police officer employed at a Massachusetts state college, university, community college and the University of Massachusetts”.

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