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Rep. Steven Ultrino files bill to reclassify probation electronic-monitoring assistant coordinators into pension Group 2
Summary
Representative Steven Ultrino filed legislation on Jan. 9, 2025, that would add Section 106 to Chapter 32 of the Massachusetts General Laws to make assistant coordinators in the Office of Probation's electronic monitoring department eligible for classification in pension Group 2 pending action by the State Board of Retirement.
Representative Steven Ultrino of Malden filed legislation Jan. 9, 2025, proposing that assistant coordinators in the electronic monitoring department of the Office of Probation be eligible for classification as members of pension Group 2 under Chapter 32 of the Massachusetts General Laws.
The bill, filed as House No. 2982 (House Docket No. 483), would add a new Section 106 to Chapter 32 to specify that assistant coordinators of the electronic monitoring department "shall be eligible for classification as members of pension group 2 by the Massachusetts State Board of Retirement pursuant to section 3." The proposal was submitted to the clerk of the House; it has been filed but not enacted.
If enacted, the statute would direct the Massachusetts State Board of Retirement to classify those assistant coordinators in Group 2 of the state contributory retirement system. The text included in the filing does not set an effective date and does not itself change any retiree benefits until the legislature passes the bill and the retirement board acts in accordance with the new statutory language.
The filing identifies the Office of Probation's electronic monitoring department and the position title "assistant coordinators" as the employees affected by the proposed reclassification. The bill text does not include a funding appropriation, an effective date, or a schedule for implementation; those details and any downstream fiscal impacts would require additional legislative language or administrative action not present in the filing.
This legislative proposal is a statutory change request: it would amend Chapter 32 of the General Laws to add a new section authorizing the State Board of Retirement to make the classification. At the time of filing there is no committee referral or vote recorded in the bill text provided.
Because the bill is an introducer's filing, any change in classification now depends on (1) action by the Massachusetts House and Senate to enact the bill, (2) the governor's signature (or other legislative procedures), and (3) implementation steps by the Massachusetts State Board of Retirement as authorized by statute. The filing does not provide an estimate of how many employees would be affected.
