SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1186        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 851

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Relative to the Statewide Head Injury Program.

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 78 of chapter 6 of the General Laws as most recently appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding at the end of paragraph (2) the following new paragraph:-

(3) The commission shall, subject to appropriations, develop and provide, either directly or through purchase of service, such services as deemed necessary and appropriate to persons with traumatic brain injuries. Such services will be managed by the statewide head injury program and delivered to persons meeting the eligibility requirements for each such service.