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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1911 FILED ON: 1/15/2025 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 776 |
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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 | | Jack Patrick Lewis and Hadley Luddy |
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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 relative to LGBT and HIV-positive seniors in the Commonwealth. |
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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:Jack Patrick Lewis7th Middlesex1/15/2025Hadley Luddy4th Barnstable1/15/2025 1 of 1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1911 FILED ON: 1/15/2025 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 776 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representatives Lewis of Framingham and Luddy of Orleans, a petition (accompanied by |
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| 19 | 19 | | bill, House, No. 776) of Jack Patrick Lewis and Hadley Luddy relative to racial and ethnic status, |
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| 20 | 20 | | sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or HIV status of seniors. Elder Affairs. |
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| 21 | 21 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEE HOUSE, NO. 636 OF 2023-2024.] |
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| 23 | 23 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 24 | 24 | | _______________ |
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| 25 | 25 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court |
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| 26 | 26 | | (2025-2026) |
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| 27 | 27 | | _______________ |
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| 28 | 28 | | An Act relative to LGBT and HIV-positive seniors in the Commonwealth. |
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| 29 | 29 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 30 | 30 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 31 | 31 | | 1 Chapter 19A of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section:- |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2 Section 44. For the purposes of administering the federal Older Americans Act of 1965 |
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| 33 | 33 | | 3and subsequent amendments thereto, the term "greatest social need", as defined in 42 U.S.C. |
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| 34 | 34 | | 43002(24), shall mean the need caused by non-economic factors that restrict an individual's ability |
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| 35 | 35 | | 5to perform normal daily tasks or that threaten the individual’s capacity to live independently. |
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| 36 | 36 | | 6These factors shall include, but are not limited to, physical or mental disability, language barriers |
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| 37 | 37 | | 7and cultural or social isolation caused by, among other things, racial and ethnic status, sexual |
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| 38 | 38 | | 8orientation, gender identity or expression or HIV status. |
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