HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2433        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 144

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the authority of the disabled persons protection commission pursuant to chapter 19C..

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.  SECTION 1 OF CHAPTER 19C OF THE GENERAL LAWS, AS APPEARING IN THE 2004 OFFICIAL EDITION, IS HEREBY AMENDED AS FOLLOWS:

BY AMENDING THE DEFINITION OF "MANDATED REPORTER" AS SO APPEARING BY STRIKING OUT ALL LANGUAGE FOLLOWING THE WORDS "POLICE OFFICER" ON LINE 27 THROUGH LINE 32 AND INSERTING IN PLACE THEREOF THE FOLLOWING: -

.  . . , fire fighter, emergency medical technician, paramedic, correctional officer or person employed by a state agency within the executive office of health and human services as defined by section sixteen of chapter six A, or employed by a private entity providing services or treatment to a disabled person who, in his professional capacity, shall have a reasonable suspicion based upon known facts that a disabled person is suffering from a reportable condition.