HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2678        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2903

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

_______________

In the Year Two Thousand Nine

_______________

An Act clarifying the limited exemption from taxation of certain facilities for the treatment of committed mentally ill patients..

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. Clause third (c) of section five of chapter fifty-nine of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1998 Official Edition, is hereby amended in the third and fourth lines by deleting the comma after the phrase “or principally for the treatment of mental diseases or mental disorders,” and by adding the following new words:— “or principally for the treatment of mental diseases or mental disorders of persons committed to a facility pursuant to chapter one hundred and twenty-three,”.

SECTION 2. Clause third (d) of section five of chapter fifty-nine of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1998 Official Edition, is hereby amended in the fourth line by deleting the comma after the phrase “or principally for the treatment of mental diseases or mental disorders,” and by adding the following new words:— “or principally for the treatment of mental diseases or mental disorders of persons committed to a facility pursuant to chapter one hundred and twenty-three,”.