The Massachusetts State House has approved our request for a Home Rule petition.
We voted at Town Meeting
on December 5, 2023:
ARTICLE NINE: HOME RULE PETITION REGARDING GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE FOR ELIGIBLE RETIREES:
It was voted by a majority to authorize the Selectboard to petition the Massachusetts General Court for special legislation, a draft of which is set forth below, to validate, ratify and confirm section 7A of chapter 32B of the General Laws, as if the Town had properly voted to approve the question set forth in section 7A of said chapter, authorizing the Town to pay a rate in addition to fifty per cent of the premium for contributory group health insurance for eligible Town employees; provided, however, that the General Court may make clerical or editorial changes of form only to the bill, unless the Selectboard approve amendments to the bill before enactment by the General Court, and to authorize the Selectboard to approve amendments which shall be within the scope of the general objectives of the petition:
An Act Relative to the Provision of Health Insurance for Eligible Employees and Retirees in the Town of Worthington.
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the actions of the town of Worthington and its Selectboard in offering health insurance coverage to town employees, in accordance with G.L. c. 32B, are hereby validated, ratified and confirmed, as if the Town had properly voted to approve the question set forth in section 7A of said chapter 32B, in accordance with law. The town may continue to provide such insurance and benefits under said chapter 32B as if the voters of the town had properly approved the question set forth in said section 7A of said chapter 32B; provided, however, that such actions are otherwise taken in accordance with said chapter 32B.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
The legislature approved the following:
