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CHAPTER 439 AN ACT REQUIRING SCHOOL COMMITTEES TO NOTIFY SCHOOL PERSONNEL OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS REGARDING CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT.

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

Chapter 71 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 37K the following section:-

Section 37L. The school committee of each city, town or regional school district shall inform teachers, administrators, and other professional staff of reporting requirements for child abuse and neglect as specifed in sections fifty-one A to fifty-one F, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and nineteen.

Approved October 27, 1987.