Amendment ID: S2014-4

Amendment 4

addiction education for junior operators

Mr. deMacedo moves to amend the bill by inserting the following SECTION XX. SECTION 1. Section 13D of chapter 71 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2012 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting the following paragraph:-

A driver education course shall include a module on the science related to addiction and addictive substances approved by the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research at Boston Children’s Hospital.

SECTION 2. Subsection (c) of section 8 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “course”, in line 47, the following words:- including a module on the science related to addiction and addictive substances approved by the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research at Boston Children’s Hospital and…

SECTION 3. Said subsection (c) is hereby amended by inserting after the word “curriculum”, in line 67, the following words:- including a module on the science related to addiction and addictive substances approved by the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research at Boston Children’s Hospital.

SECTION 4. The nineteenth paragraph of section 32G of said chapter 90 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “section”, in line 199, the following sentence:- Said curriculum shall include a module on the science related to addiction and addictive substances approved by the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research at Boston Children’s Hospital.