SENATE, No. 1021

By Mr. Morrissey (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1021) of Sabina K. Stenberg for legislation to require cosmetologists who provide services in senior housing complexes to have a CORI check. The Judiciary

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the Year Two Thousand and Five.

AN ACT TO REQUIRE COSMETOLOGIST WHO PROVIDE SERVICES IN SENIOR HOUSING COMPLEXES TO HAVE A CORI CHECK

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.

Chapter 112 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2002 official edition, is amended by inserting after section 87KK the following new section:-

Section 87KK1/2.     The board of shall obtain all available criminal offender record information from the criminal history systems board before from a licensee who seeks to provide services in a senior housing complex.  The board shall periodically, but not less than every 3 years, obtain all available criminal offender record information from the criminal history systems board on all such persons.