Amendment #888 to H4200
Expanding the Mandated Reporter Definition
Representatives Barrows of Mansfield, Ferguson of Holden, Jones of North Reading, Kuros of Uxbridge, Howitt of Seekonk and Scibak of South Hadley move to amend the bill by adding the following sections:
“SECTION XX. Section 21 of chapter 119 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2014 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking, in line 74, the words “or (vi) the child advocate” and inserting in place thereof the following:- “(vi) any public or private school employee; (vii) any person who cares for or works with a child in any public or private child care facility; (viii) all employees of the commonwealth; (viii) all volunteers who regularly work with children as part of a team or organization such as volunteer youth sports coaches, church volunteers, park and recreation, library, scouting, boys or girls clubs, Young Men’s Christian Association, and any other person in the commonwealth who works in a youth organization or has contact with children; (ix) persons contracted for landscaping by a public or private school; or (x) the child advocate. No person under the age of 18 shall be classified as a mandated reporter.
Section XX. Section 51A of said chapter 119 is hereby amended by adding, after subsection (k), the following new subsection:-
(l) All designated mandated reporters in the commonwealth shall be required to take child sexual abuse training as determined by the office of the child advocate and the interagency child welfare task force established by section 215 of chapter 6.”
Additional co-sponsor(s) added to Amendment #888 to H4200
Expanding the Mandated Reporter Definition
Representative: |
Paul R. Heroux |