SENATE DOCKET, NO. 633        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1169

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to presenting civil service exam results in tenths of a percentage and by highest score first..

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 59, of chapter 31 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2000 official edition, is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the first paragraph the following sentence:-

The competitive examination results presented to a city and town shall be in sequential order based on the exam score with the highest score listed first and each exam taker’s score shall be rounded to the tenth decimal point.