Skip to Content

Session Laws

1985

Jump to:

CHAPTER 9 RESOLVE PROVIDING FOR AN INVESTIGATION AND STUDY BY A SPECIAL COMMISSION RELATIVE TO CHILDREN IN NEED OF SERVICE.

RESOLVED, That a special commission to consist of three members of the senate, six members of the house of representatives including one member of the minority party, the commissioner of the department of social services or his designee, the commissioner of the department of youth services or his designee, the director of the office for children or his designee, and three persons to be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be a justice of the trial court, is hereby established for the purpose of making an investigation and study relative to determining the adequacy and effectiveness of section thirty-nine E to thirty-nine J, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and nineteen of the General Laws.

Said commission shall report to the general court the results of its investigation and study and its recommendations, if any, together with drafts of legislation to carry its recommendations into effect, by filing the same with the clerk of the house of representatives on or before the first Wednesday in November, nineteen hundred and eighty-six.

Approved January 6, 1986.