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Rep. Rodney M. Elliott files bill to add municipal detention attendants to retirement group list
Summary
On Jan. 13, 2025 Representative Rodney M. Elliott filed House Bill No. 2819 to amend Section 3 of Chapter 32 of the Massachusetts General Laws by inserting detention attendants employed by municipal police departments into the listed retirement group language.
Representative Rodney M. Elliott of Lowell filed House Bill No. 2819 on Jan. 13, 2025, proposing to amend Section 3 of Chapter 32 of the Massachusetts General Laws to add "employees of a municipal police department who are employed or regularly acting as detention attendants" to the statute's enumerated list. The filing appears in House Docket No. 757 and is presented in the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court (2025–2026).
The bill text specifies a single, targeted change: to insert the quoted phrase immediately after the number "1" in line 296 of the stated section in the 2022 Official Edition of the General Laws. The document on file does not include committee referral, legislative votes, fiscal estimates, or implementation guidance.
The filing formally registers the petition for consideration by the General Court; the document does not record any debate, committee action, or final legislative outcome. Representative Elliott is listed as the petitioner.
Key identifiers on the filing include House Bill No. 2819 and House Docket No. 757, with the caption "An Act relative to retirement group reclassification." The bill does not specify effective dates, budgetary amounts, or administrative processes beyond the statutory insertion language shown in the filed text.
Because the document is a petition for a statutory amendment, further legislative steps would be required before any change to retirement classifications would take effect; those subsequent steps and timelines are not included in the filed bill.
