HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1072        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3524

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to increasing the age in which a person may receive a speedy trial.

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 59F of Chapter 231 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking it in its entirety and replaced with the following: --

Chapter 231: Section 59F. Speedy trial for persons seventy-two years of age or older

Section 59F. In any civil action in any court of the commonwealth in which one or more of the parties at the time of commencement of the proceeding is seventy-two years of age or older or during the pendency of the proceeding attains the age of seventy-two, the court shall, upon motion of such person, advance the proceeding for speedy trial so that it may be heard and determined with as little delay as possible.