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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3960 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 71 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Kate Lipper-Garabedian |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act creating a pilot program to explore digital innovation in government. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Kate Lipper-Garabedian32nd Middlesex1/20/2023Thomas M. Stanley9th Middlesex2/22/2023 1 of 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3960 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 71 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. |
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| 19 | 19 | | 71) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian and Thomas M. Stanley for legislation to establish and |
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| 20 | 20 | | implement a pilot program to examine the use of blockchain technology. Advanced Information |
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| 21 | 21 | | Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity. |
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| 22 | 22 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 23 | 23 | | _______________ |
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| 24 | 24 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 25 | 25 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 26 | 26 | | _______________ |
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| 27 | 27 | | An Act creating a pilot program to explore digital innovation in government. |
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| 28 | 28 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 29 | 29 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 30 | 30 | | 1 SECTION 1. The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative shall, within one year of the |
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| 31 | 31 | | 2effective date of this act, establish and implement a pilot program to examine the use of |
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| 32 | 32 | | 3blockchain technology to support storage of real property records, working with at least one |
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| 33 | 33 | | 4registry of deeds. The pilot program shall test distributed ledger technology as a redundancy- |
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| 34 | 34 | | 5driven concept to be used parallel and as a backup record to the current recording system. The |
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| 35 | 35 | | 6Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and the participating register or registers of deeds shall |
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| 36 | 36 | | 7identify legal impediments that must be modified to accommodate blockchain-based recordation |
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| 37 | 37 | | 8of real property interests. |
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| 38 | 38 | | 9 SECTION 2. Not later than 12 months after the conclusion of the pilot program, the |
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| 39 | 39 | | 10Massachusetts Technology Collaborative shall file a report that includes an evaluation of the |
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| 40 | 40 | | 11pilot and an assessment of the feasibility and advisability of the deployment of blockchain |
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| 41 | 41 | | 12technology to support storage of real property records with the clerks of the house and senate, the 2 of 2 |
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| 42 | 42 | | 13joint committee on advanced technology, the internet and cybersecurity, joint committee on |
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| 43 | 43 | | 14municipalities and regional government, joint committee on state administration and regulatory |
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| 44 | 44 | | 15oversight, and the house and senate committees on ways and means. |
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