Massachusetts SD 938: An Act relative to collectively bargained health & welfare plans

Bill Text

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SENATE DOCKET, NO. 938 FILED ON: 1/16/2019
SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1467

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Joseph A. Boncore
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act relative to collectively bargained health & welfare plans.
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PETITION OF:

NAME: DISTRICT/ADDRESS:
Joseph A. Boncore First Suffolk and Middlesex
Walter F. Timilty Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth 1/28/2019

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SENATE DOCKET, NO. 938 FILED ON: 1/16/2019
SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1467
By Mr. Boncore, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1467) of Joseph A. Boncore and
Walter F. Timilty for legislation relative to collectively bargained health & welfare plans.
Public Service.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-First General Court
(2019-2020)
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An Act relative to collectively bargained health & welfare plans.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:

1 SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any general or special law, or any collective bargaining
2 agreement to the contrary, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts/NAGE Health and Welfare
3 Trust Fund and the NAGE, SEIU Local 5000/Trial Court of Massachusetts Health and Welfare
4 Trust Fund, may by a fifty percent vote of their respective trustees or other governing bodies
5 reimburse on a monthly basis those employees who are covered by a collective bargaining
6 agreement, but who are not members of the union that negotiated the agreement, a sum equal to
7 that sent to the Trust Funds by the employer on their behalf. Said reimbursed employee shall not
8 be eligible for any of the programs offered by the above Trusts.