SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1517        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 693

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Preventing discrimination based on veteran's status..

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 4 of chapter 151B of the General Laws is hereby amend by inserting after subsection (1D) the following:-

1E. For an employer, an employment agency, the commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions, by itself or its agents, to deny initial employment, reemployment, retention in employment, promotion or any benefit of employment to a person who is a veteran of a uniformed military service of the United States, including the National Guard, on the basis of that membership, application or obligation.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.