FILED ON: 8/16/2012

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2415

 

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Twelve

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An Act regulating the practice and licensure of lactation consultants..

 

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. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary the Department of Public Health shall conduct an investigation and study for the purpose of creating a Board of Registration for the licensure of lactation consultants; the Department of Public Health shall report, in writing the results of said study together with its recommendations to the Joint Committee on Public Health, no later than December 31, 2012.