HOUSE DOCKET, NO.                 FILED ON: 1/30/2014

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3885

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Fourteen

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Ordered, the Committee on Ethics be granted the power to require the attendance of witnesses, administer oaths, take testimony and compel the productions of books, papers, documents and other evidence in connection with the investigation and evaluation of a complaint received by said Committee on January 15, 2014. The powers granted to the Committee pursuant to this Order shall cease to exist as of February 7, 2014. 

Ordered, That, notwithstanding any House or Joint Rule to the contrary, counsel to the House of Representatives, appointed pursuant to section 51 of the chapter 3 of the General Laws, may disclose during any legal proceeding any confidential non-privileged information obtained as a result of said counsel’s official position as counsel to the House Committee on Ethics in connection with the investigation and evaluation of a complaint received by the House Committee on Ethics on January 15, 2014.