SENATE, No. 1071

By Ms. Walsh, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1071) of Marian Walsh, James R. Miceli and Patricia D. Jehlen for legislation concerning adult prevention. The Judiciary

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the Year Two Thousand and Five.


AN ACT CONCERNING ABUSE PREVENTION

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 1 of chapter 209A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2000 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following after the word "relationship," in line 20:- "or where one person attempts to engage the other in a substantive dating relationship,".