HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3008        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1500

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to improving the sex offender registry in the commonwealth..

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. Chapter 27 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following after section 4:- Section 4A. The parole board shall establish in each region an intensive parole sex offenders program. Such programs shall be established subject to appropriation, and shall be modeled upon the current program operated by the parole board in Middlesex County, and shall include unannounced visits, counseling, electronic monitoring, random drug testing, polygraph testing and other aspects of intensive supervision.