HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 386        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2966

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act expanding the definition of public records to include subordinate entities of public entities.

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

Ch. 4, s. 7, Clause 26 is hereby amended by adding after the words “…….or of any authority established by the general court to serve a public purpose” the following: “or any entity whatsoever that both (a) receives or holds any funds from any of the foregoing entities and (b) has any members of its governing board or other management appointed by any of the foregoing entities…..”