HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 518        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 555

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to voting by sex offenders..

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 l of chapter 51 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “conviction”, in line 3, the following words:-  or a registered voter subject or a registered voter subject to the registration requirements of M.G.L. Chapter 6, Section 178 C-Q, whose assigned polling place is located in a school, library, or community center, shall be required to vote at a location determined by the elections division of a city or town.”

SECTION 2. This act shall apply only to Level 3 registered sex offenders.