HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 519        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 681

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to ballot questions..

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 6B of chapter 55 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

No person, business, for profit or not-for-profit association, or any other entity shall contribute more than $500 in any calendar year to the promotion or defeat of any ballot question or initiative petition, so-called.