HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3079        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 482

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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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. Each school district shall develop a program to identify and serve pupils with light-based reading difficulties, best defined, as of December 1, 2002 by screening practices and methodologies used to address Irlen syndrome and/or scotopic sensitivity, so called.