HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3380        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1551

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to discrimination of veterans..

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 4 of chapter 151B of the General Laws, as most recently amended by section 23A of chapter 254 of the Acts of 2000, is hereby further amended by inserting after subsection 1C the following subsection:-

1D. For an employer, by himself or his agent, because an individual is a veteran to refuse to hire or employ or to bar or to discharge from employment such individual or to discriminate against such individual in compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification.

For the purposes of this subsection, a veteran shall be an individual who served not less than 180 days of active service in any branch of the military.