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