HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 94524        FILED ON: 2/23/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4524

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act REQUIRING SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO ADOPT A CERTAIN HEALTH PROGRAM..

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

Chapter 71 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 54B the following section:—  Section 54C. The department of elementary and secondary education upon request shall assist a school district in the development of a program to identify and serve pupils with light-based reading difficulties, such as scotopic sensitivity.