SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1847        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1448

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to debar employers who violate federal immigration laws from contracting with the Commonwealth..

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. Chapter 29 of the General Laws is hereby amended in Section 29F(c), in the first line by removing the word “may” after the word “Debarment” and replacing it with the word “shall” and by removing the following words:  “but, debarment shall be imposed in all causes where debarment is required by law.”

SECTION 2.  Chapter 29 of the General Laws is hereby amended in Section 29F(c)(1) in the last line, by adding the following after the word “environment;”

(x)  a violation of federal law prohibiting the employment of “unauthorized aliens”;