SENATE DOCKET, NO. 922        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1624

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to clarify the review of actions of the chief justice for administration and management..

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 17 of chapter 211B is hereby amended by adding the following phrase at the end of the first sentence “subject to the superintendence power of the supreme judicial court.”

Section 2.  Said Section 17 of chapter 211B is hereby further amended by inserting, after the first sentence in the second paragraph, the following 3 sentences:-

In carrying out the duties established by this section, the chief justice for administration and management shall be subject to review exclusively under section 3 of chapter 211.  In accordance with section 2 of chapter 213A, the actions of the chief justice for administration and management under this section shall be exempt from review in an action for declaratory relief.  Clause (3) of subsection (j) of section 10 of chapter 258 shall not constitute or be construed as a waiver of any immunity applicable to the chief justice for administration and management.