SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1779        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 937

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to medical examinations in correctional facilities..

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 sixteen of chapter 127 of the general laws, as appearing in the 2006

Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:—

During the conduct of any such physical examination or any subsequent medical examination of a female inmate, the presence of a female nurse or female corrections officer shall be required. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the rendering of immediate emergency medical treatment for a potentially life-threatening condition.