The 188th General Court of
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Session Laws
CHAPTER 484 AN ACT RELATIVE TO COLLEGE CREDIT FOR COURSES IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:
Chapter 15A of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 9 the following section:-
Section 9A. American Sign Language is hereby recognized as a full and legitimate language, as the language of a unique culture in the United States, and as the equivalent of a spoken language for the purposes of foreign language study and course credit.