HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2748        FILED ON: 1/21/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1860

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Louis L. Kafka

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to the tuition of children under the control of the Department of Transitional Assistance living in family shelters.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Louis L. Kafka

8th Norfolk

1/21/2011


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2748        FILED ON: 1/21/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1860

By Mr. Kafka of Stoughton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1860) of Louis L. Kafka relative to the tuition of children under the control of the Department of Transitional Assistance living in family shelters.  Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 148 OF 2009-2010.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Eleven

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An Act relative to the tuition of children under the control of the Department of Transitional Assistance living in family shelters.

 

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 7 of Chapter 76 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2000 Official Addition, is hereby amended by inserting in the first paragraph fourth line after the phrase ‘the Department of Social Services’ the following: ‘or shelters under the control of the Department of Transitional Assistance’; in the second paragraph fourteenth line after the phrase ‘school aged children placed in family foster care’ the words ‘or family shelters’; in the second paragraph fifteenth line after the phrase ‘The Department of Social Services’ the words ‘or the Department of Transitional Assistance’.