SENATE DOCKET, NO. 437        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1851

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act concerning abuse prevention..

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 1 of chapter 209A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following after the word "relationship," in line 20:- "or where one person attempts to engage the other in a substantive dating relationship,".