By Mr. Walsh of Boston (by request), petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2275) of Bill Trabucco  that hospitals be required to make video and audio recordings of surgeries .  Public Health.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Bill Trabucco

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act relative to video and audio patient protection system .

    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. Subsection (d) of section 203 of chapter 111 is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:

Every licensed hospital shall make audio and visual recordings of all surgeries. Failure to make such recordings may be punishable by a fine determined by the commissioner. Upon passage of this bill it shall be named the Leona S. Trabucco law.