Bill Text: MA S709 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced


Bill Title: Clarify employer sanctions for improper expenditure of withholdings or deductions from wages

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-15 - Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the Senate Committee on Ways and Means [S709 Detail]

Download: Massachusetts-2009-S709-Introduced.html

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Marc R. Pacheco

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
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��������������� The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act to clarify employer sanctions for improper expenditure of withholdings or deductions from wages.

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[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE SENATE, NO. S00266 OF 2007-2008.]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act to clarify employer sanctions for improper expenditure of withholdings or deductions from wages.



��������������� 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 one hundred and fifty C of chapter one hundred and forty nine A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1992 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting in line 5 after the words "chapter one hundred and seventy-five" the following words:- or a contract for hospital and medical services pursuant to chapter one hundred and seventy-six A and chapter one hundred and seventy-six B or an agreement for dental services pursuant to chapter one hundred and seventy-six E or an agreement for optometric services pursuant to chapter one hundred and seventy-six F or a health maintenance contract pursuant to chapter one hundred and seventy-six G and,.

SECTION 2. Section one hundred and fifty C of chapter one hundred and

forty-nine A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1992 Official Edition, is hereby further amended by adding the following paragraph as a second paragraph:-

No person shall by a special contract with an employee or by any other means exempt himself from this section. The president and treasurer of a corporation and any officers or agents having the management of such corporation shall be deemed to be a person having employees in his service within the meaning of this section.�������

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