SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1836        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 638

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to Offer the Elderly the Option of One of Three Placements in Public Housing..

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 40 of Chapter 121B of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2000 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after subsection (h), the following subsection:-

(i) When selecting elderly persons as tenants, the department shall offer to said persons at least three units, which units shall not be located in the same housing project or development, from which said elderly persons choose one.