HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3046        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 180

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act concerning the public records law..

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  Section 7(26)(r) of chapter 4 of the General Laws is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2.  Section 5 of chapter 18C is hereby amended by inserting subclause (i) containing the following language into the end of the section:-

“(i) Information and records acquired under this chapter by the office of the child advocate shall not be public subject to disclosure pursuant to chapter 66.” 

SECTION 3.  Section 1 of chapter 303 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking after the word contract, in lines 98 and 99, the following language:-

“; provided, further, that for any such contract determined to contain confidential information under subclause (r) of section 7 of chapter 4, the governmental body shall instead maintain a record of the procurement processes and awards for 6 years after the date of the final payment.”