Below is the language from a supplementary budget filed by the Governor with the language to study the Quinn Bill.

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SECTION 34. Item 8000-0040 of section 2 of the general appropriation act for fiscal year 2010 is hereby amended by adding the following words:-; and provided further, that any certified enrollee in a municipal police academy on active duty in the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan or Iraq shall be eligible to participate in the career incentive pay program established pursuant to section 108L of chapter 41 of the General Laws

SECTION 50. (a) The executive office for administration and finance, the executive office of public safety and the executive office of education shall conduct a study of the current police career incentive program and shall provide the result of this study by March 31, 2010. 

(b) The study shall evaluate the status of the current career incentive pay program established in section 108L of chapter 41 of the General Laws including, but not limited to: (1) an assessment of the number of police officers with higher education degrees; (2) an investigation of salaries paid to officers utilizing the incentive program as compared with neighboring states' salaries and incentive programs; (3) an assessment on the impact said program has had on decreasing the number of lawsuits against police officers and municipalities; (4) the cumulative cost to state and local governments in terms of increased operating costs for wages and impact on state and municipal pension liability; (5) an assessment on the current incentives provided to officers and a determination of how wages for officers with higher education degrees would be affected without the incentive program; (6) the impact of requiring a higher education degree for all police officers as a job requirement; (7) a comparison of the wage benefits conferred by the incentive program with the increase in earning power expected to be experienced by all persons in the commonwealth as a result of higher educational attainment; (8) an appropriate role for the commonwealth in the future of the career incentive pay program; and (9) any other matters that the commission considers relevant to its purpose.

(c) The study shall also consider options for a successor program and evaluate the cost and benefits of providing for such incentives in a different manner than currently offered. 

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