HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1673        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1384

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act permitting the adoption of embryos..

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

Section 1 of chapter 210 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1998 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the first paragraph the following paragraph:— A person of full age may petition the probate court for the adoption of an embryo.