HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3433        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1540

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act  Relative to Electronic Monitoring Devices..

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

Chapter 268 of the general laws is hereby amended in section 16 by inserting after the words “fails to return from any temporary release from said institution, center or branch,” the following: “or who, on any other form of constructive confinement, tampers with or otherwise attempts to disable electronic monitoring of the prisoner,”.