Amendment No. 8 to Participation Agreement Franklin Templeton Variable Insurance Products Trust Franklin/Templeton Distributors, Inc. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

Item 26. Exhibit (h) i. f. 1.

Amendment No. 8 to Participation Agreement

Franklin Xxxxxxxxx Variable Insurance Products Trust

Franklin/Xxxxxxxxx Distributors, Inc.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

C.M. Life Insurance Company

MML Strategic Distributors, LLC

MML Distributors, LLC

MML Investors Services, LLC

WHEREAS, Franklin Xxxxxxxxx Variable Insurance Products Trust (the “Trust”), Franklin/Xxxxxxxxx Distributors, Inc. (the “Underwriter,” and together with the Trust, “we,” “our,” or “us”), Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, C.M. Life Insurance Company, MML Distributors, LLC (“MMLD”), MML Investors Services, LLC (“MMLIS”), and MML Strategic Distributors, LLC (“MSD,” and together with MMLD and MMLIS, the “Distributors”), your distributors (collectively, the “Company” “you” or “your”), on your behalf and on behalf of certain Accounts, (individually a “Party”, collectively, the “Parties”) have previously entered into a Participation Agreement dated May 1, 2000 and subsequently amended April 15, 2001, May 1, 2003, June 5, 2007, October 25, 2010, January 15, 2013, August 6, 2014, July 1, 2016, and further modified by an addendum dated March 20, 2012 (the “Agreement”).

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants hereinafter set forth, and intending to be legally bound, the Parties now desire to amend the Agreement by this amendment (the “Amendment”) to add an additional separate account of the Company. Unless otherwise indicated, the terms defined in the Agreement shall have the same meaning in this Amendment.

A M E N D M E N T

1. Schedule B of the Agreement is deleted and replaced in its entirety with the Schedule B attached hereto.

2. All other terms and provisions of the Agreement not amended herein shall remain in full force and effect.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Parties has caused its duly authorized officers to execute this Amendment effective as of September 8, 2020.

The Trust:		Franklin Xxxxxxxxx Variable Insurance Products Trust
Only on behalf of each Portfolio listed on Schedule C of the Agreement.
		By:	/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxx
		Name:	Xxxxxx Xxxx
		Title:	Vice President and Secretary
The Underwriter:		Franklin/Xxxxxxxxx Distributors, Inc.
		By:	/s/ Xxxxxx X’Xxxx
		Name:	Xxxxxx X’Xxxx
		Title:	President
The Company:		Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
		By:	/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
		Name:	Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
		Title:	Head of Institutional Insurance
		C.M. Life Insurance Company
		By:	/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
		Name:	Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
		Title:	Head of Institutional Insurance
The Distributors:		MML Strategic Distributors, LLC
		By:	/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx
		Name:	Xxxx Xxxxxxx
		Title:	President

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		MML Distributors, LLC
		By:	/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx
		Name:	Xxxx Xxxxxxx
		Title:	President
		MML Investors Services, LLC
		By:	/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
		Name:	Xxxxx Xxxxxx
		Title:	President

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Schedule B

Accounts of the Company

Name of Account	SEC Registration
	Yes/No
C.M. Life Variable Life Separate Account I	Yes
Massachusetts Mutual Variable Life Separate Account I	Yes
Massachusetts Mutual Variable Life Separate Account IX	No

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