SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1072        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1644

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to promote the permanent of children with fit parents..

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 3 of chapter 209C, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking paragraph (c) and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-

(c)  The juvenile court department shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the probate and family court under this chapter under this chapter, provided that actions brought under this chapter are joined or consolidated with actions brought under section twenty-four of chapter one hundred and nineteen and, provided further, that the action under section twenty-four of chapter one hundred and nineteen is initiated before the filing of a complaint under this chapter.