HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 977        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1306

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to malpractice complaints for injuries sustained by minors..

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

Section 60D of Chapter 231 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out in lines 6 to 11 the following words:— “accrues, except that a minor under the full age of six years shall have until his ninth birthday in which the action may be commenced, but in no event shall any such action be commenced more that seven years after occurrence of the act or omission which is the alleged cause of the injury upon which such action is based except where the action is based upon the leaving of a foreign object in the body.” And inserting in place thereof the following words:— is discovered