Bill > H2808

This bill aims to modify Massachusetts retirement benefits law by adding campus police officers employed at state colleges, universities, community colleges, and the University of Massachusetts to the Group 4 retirement classification. Currently, Group 4 retirement benefits are reserved for certain high-risk public safety professionals like firefighters, police officers, and corrections officers, who can typically retire earlier and receive enhanced pension benefits due to the inherently dangerous nature of their work. By specifically including campus police officers in this group, the bill recognizes their critical public safety role and ensures they receive comparable retirement benefits to other law enforcement professionals. The modification would be made to Section 3 of Chapter 32 of the Massachusetts General Laws, specifically inserting the language about campus police officers in line 297 of the existing statute, thereby expanding the retirement benefit eligibility for these public safety workers.

Labor and Employment

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2808