HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2636        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3508

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act providing for furnishing a summary of the conflict of interest law to state, county and municipal employees..

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 23 of chapter 268A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out paragraph (f) and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-

(f) Every state, county and municipal employee shall, within 30 days of becoming such an employee, be furnished with a summary of chapter 268A prepared or approved by the commission and sign a written acknowledgment that he has been provided with such a summary.  Municipal employees shall be furnished the summary by, and file such an acknowledgment with, the city or town clerk.  Appointed state and county employees shall be furnished the summary by, and file such an acknowledgment with, such employee’s appointing authority or his designee.  Elected state and county employees shall be furnished the summary by, and file such an acknowledgment with, the commission.

SECTION 2.  Every state, county and municipal employee who, on the effective date of this act, is such an employee shall, within 90 days of the effective date of this act, be furnished with, and sign and file a written acknowledgment that he has been provided, a summary of chapter 268A prepared or approved by the commission, as provided in paragraph (f) of section 23 of said chapter 268A as amended by section 1 of this act.