HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4132        FILED ON: 3/20/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4040

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to compensating a family member as caretaker..

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. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a family member may be the designated paid caretaker for a member of the family with a traumatic brain injury received while in military service.  The prerequisites for this designation by the department of public health and any other department shall include, but not be limited to, training and certification.