Massachusetts Statutes

Section 13A. (a) The department shall maintain, subject to appropriation, a child care financial assistance program that shall provide sufficient financial assistance to enable eligible families to afford and access high-quality early education and care for infants, toddlers, pre…

Section 14. (a) A person whose consent is required by section 2 of chapter 210 may, before surrender, request from a placement agency background information pertaining to the prospective adoptive family in which the placement agency expects to place the child if surrendered. The …

Section 15. (a) Any person who violates section 6 shall be punished for each violation by a fine of up to $5,000 or by imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years, or by both. (b) Upon petition of the department, the superior court shall have jurisdiction…

Section 16. Upon petition of the department, the superior court shall have jurisdiction to enter an order permitting the department to enter and inspect, under conditions that the court considers appropriate, a facility operated by a person whom the department has reasonable caus…

Section 17. (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Department of labor relations'', the department of labor relations established by section 9O of chapter 23. ''Employee organization'', an empl…

Section 18. (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''Eligible facility'', a building, structure or site that is, or will be, owned, leased or otherwise used by 1 or more eligible organizat…

Section 19. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a budgeted fund known as the Early Education and Care Operational Grant Fund, which shall be administered by the department. Amounts credited to the fund shall be expended, subject to appropria…

Section 1A. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Adoption'', the establishment of the legal relationship of parent and child pursuant to chapter 210. ''Board'', the board of early education and …

Section 2. There shall be in the executive office of education a department of early education and care, in this chapter called the department, which shall be the state agency responsible for compliance with early education and care services under the Personal Responsibility and …

Section 20. (a) The department shall, subject to appropriation, establish, distribute and maintain an operational grant program for early education and care providers to provide high-quality and sustainable education and care. (b) Eligible uses for operational grants shall includ…

Section 21. (a) The department shall maintain an early education and care career ladder as considered under clause (11) of the second paragraph of section 5. (b) The career ladder shall include, but not be limited to: (i) minimum recommended salaries and compensation for each lev…

Section 22. (a) As used in this section, the following terms shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: "Imagination Library of Massachusetts program'', a comprehensive statewide initiative to encourage children from birth to 5 years of age…

Section 3. (a) There shall be a board of early education and care, hereinafter referred to as the board. The board shall set policies and establish regulations related to early education and care programs, and services. The Board shall oversee and supervise the administration of …

Section 3A. There shall be a state advisory council on early education and care, the members of which shall represent a reasonable geographic balance and shall reflect the diversity of the commonwealth in race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. Members of the advisory cou…

Section 4. The board shall by a 2/3 vote of its members submit to the secretary, for the secretary's approval, a recommended candidate to serve as the commissioner of early education and care, in this chapter called the commissioner. The secretary may appoint the recommended cand…

Section 4A. (a) In order to facilitate the licensure process, the commissioner, with the approval of the board, shall establish sub-state regions within which all licensure or approval of child care centers and family child care homes, large family child care homes, and family ch…

Section 5. The board shall develop and annually update an implementation plan for a workforce development system designed to support the education, training and compensation of the early education and care workforce, including all center, family child care, infant, toddler, presc…

Section 6. (a) No person shall operate a school-aged child care program, a child care center, family child care home, large family child care home, placement agency, group care facility, or temporary shelter facility unless that person is licensed by the department. A department,…

Section 7. (a) The department shall issue and may renew a license to any person other than a department, agency or institution of the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, who meets applicable standards and requirements to establish and maintain or to assist in the e…

Section 7A. For the purposes of this section, ''military installation'' shall mean a base, camp, post, station, yard, center or other activity under the jurisdiction of the secretary of a United States military department or, in the case of an activity in a foreign country, under…

Section 8. (a) The board shall adopt regulations relative to the requirements for licensure and approval of school-aged child care programs, child care centers, family child care homes or large family child care homes and family foster care which are not supervised and approved b…

Section 9. (a) The department may, at any reasonable time, visit and inspect any facility operated by a person who is subject to licensure or approval under this section in order to determine whether the facility is being operated in compliance with law and with the rules and reg…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Active duty'', full-time duty status in the active uniformed service of the United States, including members of the National Guard and Res…

Section 10. (a) The interstate commission shall, by a majority vote of the members present and voting and within 12 months after the first interstate commission meeting, adopt by-laws to govern the conduct that is necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this compact…

Section 11. (a) The interstate commission shall promulgate reasonable rules in order to effectively achieve the purposes of this compact. In the event the interstate commission exercises its rulemaking authority in a manner that is beyond the scope or the powers granted in this a…

Section 12. (a) All courts shall take judicial notice of the compact and the rules in any judicial or administrative proceeding in a member state pertaining to the subject matter of this compact which may affect the powers, responsibilities or actions of the interstate commission…

Section 13. (a) The interstate commission shall pay, or provide for the payment of, the reasonable expenses of its establishment, organization and ongoing activities. (b) The interstate commission may levy on and collect an annual assessment from each member state to cover the co…

Section 14. (a) Any state shall be eligible to become a member state. (b) The compact shall become effective and binding upon legislative enactment of the compact into law by no less than 10 states. The effective date shall be no earlier than December 1, 2007. Thereafter it shall…

Section 15. (a) Once effective, the compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon each and every member state; provided, that a member state may withdraw from the compact by specifically repealing the statute that enacted the compact into law. (b) Withdrawal from this c…

Section 16. (a) This compact shall dissolve upon the date of the withdrawal or default of the member state which reduces the membership in the compact to 1 member state. (b) Upon the dissolution of this compact, the compact shall become null and void and shall be of no further fo…

Section 17. (a) This compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision is deemed unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the compact shall be enforceable. (b) This compact shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes. (c) Nothing in this co…

Section 18. (a) Nothing in this compact shall prevent the enforcement of any other law of a member state that is not inconsistent with this compact. (b) All member states' laws conflicting with this compact are superseded to the extent of the conflict.

Section 19. (a) All lawful actions of the interstate commission, including all rules and by-laws promulgated by the interstate commission, shall be binding upon the member states. (b) All agreements between the interstate commission and the member states shall be binding in accor…

Section 2. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), this compact shall apply to the children of: (1) active duty members of the uniformed services; (2) members or veterans of the uniformed services who are severely injured and medically discharged or retired for a peri…

Section 3. (a) If official education records cannot be released to the parents for the purpose of transfer, the custodian of the records in the sending state shall prepare and furnish to the parent a complete set of unofficial education records containing uniform information as d…

Section 4. (a) When a student transfers before or during the school year, the receiving state school shall initially honor placement of the student in educational courses based on the student's enrollment in the sending state school or educational assessments conducted at the sch…

Section 5. (a) The following shall be required to be eligible for enrollment in the receiving state's school: (1) special power of attorney, relative to the guardianship of a child of a military family and executed under applicable law, shall be sufficient to enroll or take any o…

Section 6. (a) To facilitate the on-time graduation of children of military families, local education agency administrative officials shall waive specific courses required for graduation if similar course work has been satisfactorily completed in another local education agency or…

Section 7. (a) Each member state shall, through the creation of a state council or use of an existing body or board, provide for the coordination among its agencies of government, local education agencies and military installations concerning the state's participation in and comp…

Section 8. The compacting states hereby create the interstate commission on educational opportunity for military children. The activities of the interstate commission are the formation of public policy and are a discretionary state function. The interstate commission shall: (a) b…

Section 9. The interstate commission may: (a) provide for dispute resolution among member states; (b) issue, upon request of a member state, advisory opinions concerning the meaning or interpretation of the interstate compact, its by-laws, rules and actions; (c) enforce complianc…

Section 18. As used in sections nineteen to twenty-four, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:— ''Commissioner'', the commissioner of the department of environmental protection. ''Department'', the department of environmental protection. ''Residual was…

Section 19. The department may dispose of solid wastes, from whatever source, in any manner and at any site which is determined by the department to meet the siting criteria established under section 150A1/2 of chapter 111. The department may purchase, lease, acquire, receive by …

Section 20. It shall be the responsibility of the department to carry out the provisions of sections eighteen to twenty-four, inclusive. Said department shall conduct research and demonstration projects and shall encourage improved methods of solid waste disposal including recycl…

Section 21. The department shall investigate and study the solid waste disposal needs of the commonwealth, including but not limited to appropriate solid waste management techniques for source and volume reduction, landfill design and operation, resource recovery plant design, th…

Section 22. The department shall, after hearing, determine the amount which shall be assessed upon each city or town which is included in a district established under the provisions of section twenty-one to meet the costs, including capital costs, of operating such district. The …