reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
MA Gen L ch 111k § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111k - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission|Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. As used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:—  ''Catastrophic illness'', pediatric cancer, or any illness or condition treated at a pediatric specialty hospital, including ambulatory care and services provided by or ordered through such a hospital, the medical and related expenses of which are not covered by any other state or federal program, including the uncompensated care pool, or any insurance contract and which exceed 10 per cent of the first $100,000 of annual income of a family and 15 per cent of any family income in excess of $100,000.  ''Child'', a person 21 years of age or under.  ''Commission'', the catastrophic illness in children relief fund commission.  ''Department'', the department of public health.  ''Family'', a child and the child's parent, parents or legal guardian, as the case may be, who is legally responsible for the child's medical expenses.  ''Fund'', the Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund established pursuant to section 2ZZ of chapter 29.  ''Income'', all income, from whatever source derived, actually received by a family, excluding payments received from the fund.  ''Resident'', a resident of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 111k § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111k - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission|Section 2 - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission; Establishment; Members

Section 2. (a) There is hereby established a catastrophic illness in children relief fund commission within the department of public health. The commission shall consist of the secretary of health and human services, the commissioner of public health, the commissioner of insurance and the state treasurer, who shall be members ex officio, and seven public members who shall be residents of the commonwealth, three of whom shall be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be a representative of the AFL–CIO and four of whom shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the attorney general, including two of whom shall be providers of health care services to children in the commonwealth. The public members shall serve terms of five years, but the three public members first appointed by the governor shall serve for terms of two, three and four years, respectively.  (b) Each public member shall hold office for the term of his appointment and until his successor has been appointed and qualified. A member of the commission is eligible for reappointment.  (c) Each ex officio member of the commission may designate an employee of his department to represent him at meetings of the commission, and each designee may lawfully vote and otherwise act on behalf of the ex officio member for whom he constitutes the designee. Any designation shall be in writing delivered to the commission and filed with the secretary of state. The designation shall continue in effect until revoked or amended in the same manner as provided for in the initial designation.
MA Gen L ch 111k § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111k - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission|Section 3 - Membership of Commission; Removal From Office for Cause

Section 3. (a) Each public member of the commission may be removed from the office by the governor for cause, after a public hearing, and may be suspended by the governor pending the completion of the hearing. Before entering upon their duties, members of the commission shall take and subscribe an oath to perform the duties of the office faithfully, impartially and to the best of their ability. A record of oaths shall be filed with the secretary of state.  (b) Any vacancies in the membership of the commission occurring other than by expiration of a term shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment, but for the unexpired term only.
MA Gen L ch 111k § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111k - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission|Section 4 - Election of Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer by Members; Quorum

Section 4. (a) The members shall elect a chairperson and chief executive officer of the commission who shall be one of the public members of the commission. The commission shall by rule determine the term of office of the chairperson and chief executive officer. The members shall elect a secretary and a treasurer who need not be members of the commission and the same person may be elected to serve as both secretary and treasurer.  (b) The powers of the commission shall be vested in its members in office from time to time and seven members of the commission shall constitute a quorum at any meeting. Actions may be taken and motions and resolutions adopted by the commission at any meeting by the affirmative vote of at least seven members of the commission. A vacancy in the membership of the commission shall not impair the right of a quorum to exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of the commission.  (c) The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but the commission shall reimburse its members for the reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of their duties based upon the monies available in the fund.  (d) The commission shall be appointed not later than November 1, 2000 and shall organize as soon as may be practicable after the appointment of its members.
MA Gen L ch 111k § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111k - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission|Section 5 - Powers and Duties of Commission

Section 5. The commission shall have the following powers and duties:—  (a) to establish a program to administer the fund and authorize the payment or medical reimbursement of the medical and related expenses of children with catastrophic illnesses;  (b) to establish procedures for applying to the fund, determining the eligibility for the payment or reimbursement of medical expenses for each child and processing claim disputes;  (c) to establish procedures for reimbursement of the fund where a family, after receiving assistance from the fund, recovers the costs for a child's medical expenses from a catastrophic illness pursuant to a settlement or judgment in a legal action;  (d) to establish the amount of reimbursement for the medical expenses of each child using a sliding fee scale based on a family's ability to pay for medical expenses, which takes into account family size, family income and assets and family medical expenses;  (e) to adjust the financial eligibility criteria established pursuant to section 1 based upon the monies available in the fund;  (f) to disseminate information on the fund and the program to the public;  (g) to maintain confidential records on each child who applies for assistance under the fund; and  (h) to authorize and make payment of all administrative costs, not to exceed 10 per cent of the monies transferred into the fund in a given fiscal year or 10 per cent of the carry forward balance for any fiscal year with reduced or no transfers into the fund, related to the management of the program including, but not limited to, costs for staff to manage the program and coordinate the work assigned by the commission and materials development, printing, postage and telephone expenses; provided, however, that administrative costs shall not include staff costs related to case management services, including the evaluation and processing of applications; and  (i) to review and approve annual operating expenses.
MA Gen L ch 111k § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111k - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission|Section 6 - Claims for Reimbursement Against Families Who Have Recovered Damages in Legal Actions for Expenses

Section 6. The commission may negotiate or settle a claim that the fund maintains for reimbursement against a family who has received assistance for the medical expenses of a child with a catastrophic illness and who has recovered damages in a legal action for such expenses. A reimbursement shall be less the expense of any recovery by the family. Money recovered pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the fund.
MA Gen L ch 111k § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111k - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission|Section 7 - Application Process

Section 7. A child who is a resident of the commonwealth shall be eligible, through his or her parent or guardian, to apply to the program. As part of the application process, the commission shall screen each applicant for other sources of coverage and for potential eligibility for government programs, and to document the results of such screening. If the commission determines that an applicant is potentially eligible for Medicaid or another government program, the commission shall assist the applicant in applying for benefits under such program.
MA Gen L ch 111k § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111k - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission|Section 8 - Financial Assistance for Eligible Children

Section 8. Whenever a child has a catastrophic illness and is eligible for the program, the child, through his parent or guardian, may receive financial assistance from monies in the fund subject to the rules and regulations established by the commission and the availability of monies in the fund. The financial assistance shall include, but is not limited to, payments or reimbursements for the costs of medical treatment, hospital care, prescription drugs, nursing care and physician services.
MA Gen L ch 111k § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111k - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission|Section 9 - Monies for Relief Fund

Section 9. To provide the monies necessary to establish and meet the purposes of the fund, the commission shall receive out of the employer medical assistance contribution under section 189 of chapter 149, $1 annually for each employee whose wages determine such employer's total employer medical assistance contribution under said section 189 of said chapter 149. Said contribution shall be collected by the director of unemployment assistance and paid over to the state treasurer for deposit in the fund annually as provided by the commission.
MA Gen L ch 111k § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111k - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission|Section 10 - Federal Financial Participation

Section 10. The department of public health, in consultation with the division of medical assistance, the center for health information and analysis and the department of mental health, shall take all necessary steps to maximize and coordinate the availability of federal financial participation under Title XIX of the Social Security Act for the program established by this chapter to the extent that expenditures under such program are considered expenses incurred for medical assistance within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(a).
MA Gen L ch 111k § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111k - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission|Section 11 - Annual Report

Section 11. The commission shall report annually to the governor and the senate and house committees on ways and means. The report shall include information about the number of participants in the program, average expenditures per participant, the nature and type of catastrophic illnesses for which the fund provided financial assistance and the average income and expenditures of families who receive financial assistance under the program. The commission shall also make recommendations for changes in the law and regulations governing the fund.
MA Gen L ch 111l § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111l - Biotechnology|Section 1 - Policy; Fostering Research; Prohibiting Human Reproductive Cloning

Section 1. The general court finds and declares that:  (a) human embryonic stem cell research and other research in the life sciences and regenerative medicine present a significant chance of yielding fundamental biological knowledge from which may emanate therapies to relieve, on a large scale, human suffering from disease and injury;  (b) the extraordinary biomedical scientists working within institutions of higher education, research institutes, hospitals, biotechnology companies and pharmaceutical companies can contribute significantly to the welfare of mankind by performing outstanding research in these fields; and  (c) it shall be the policy of the commonwealth to actively foster research and therapies in the life sciences and regenerative medicine by permitting research and clinical applications involving the derivation and use of human embryonic stem cells, including research and clinical applications involving somatic cell nuclear transfer, placental and umbilical cord cells and human adult stem cells and other mechanisms to create embryonic stem cells which are consistent with this chapter. It shall further be the policy of the commonwealth to prohibit human reproductive cloning.
MA Gen L ch 111l § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111l - Biotechnology|Section 3 - Research Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells Permitted; Written Approval

Section 3. (a) Research and clinical applications involving the derivation and use of human embryonic stem cells, including somatic cell nuclear transfer, human adult stem cells from any source, umbilical cord cells, parthenotes and placental cells shall be permitted.  (b) Research involving the derivation of human embryonic stem cells through the use of human genetic material, including somatic cell nuclear transfer, parthenogenesis and other asexual means as permitted by subsection (a) shall only be conducted upon the written approval of a duly authorized institutional review board. The written approval of the institutional review board shall include a detailed description of the research, experimentation or study to be conducted and a detailed description of the research or a copy of the protocol, all of which shall be maintained as a permanent record by the board or by the hospital or institution for which the board acts.
MA Gen L ch 111l § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111l - Biotechnology|Section 6 - Public Institutional Review Board; Contract With Research Institutions

Section 6. (a) The University of Massachusetts Medical School at Worcester shall establish and maintain, subject to appropriation, a public institutional review board. The public institutional review board shall be available on an ongoing basis to an institution having not more than 50 full-time employees for review of that institution's experimentation, study and procedures for the purposes of conducting research pursuant to this chapter.  (b) An institution may access the services of the public institutional review board only through a written instrument of contract. The contract shall include the payment to the public institutional review board of a reasonable fee, calculated pursuant to a methodology approved by the University of Massachusetts Medical School to account for the costs of operating and maintaining the public institutional review board, and the relevant portion of those costs attributable to the particular institution receiving the benefit.
MA Gen L ch 111l § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111l - Biotechnology|Section 8 - Human Reproductive Cloning Prohibited; Creation of Embryo for Purpose of Research; Sale of Embryos or Gametes; Enforcement

Section 8. (a) Human reproductive cloning is hereby prohibited. No person shall knowingly attempt, engage in, or assist in human reproductive cloning. No person shall knowingly purchase, sell, transfer or otherwise obtain human embryonic, gametic or cadaveric tissue for the purpose of human reproductive cloning.  (b) No person shall knowingly create an embryo by the method of fertilization with the sole intent of donating the embryo for research. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the creation of a pre-implantation embryo by somatic cell nuclear transfer, parthenogenesis or other asexual means for research purposes.  (c) No person shall knowingly and for valuable consideration purchase, sell, transfer or otherwise obtain human embryos, gametes or cadaveric tissue for research purposes. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a person from banking or donating their gametes for personal future use, or from donating their gametes to another person or from donating their gametes for research. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit or regulate the use of in vitro fertilization for reproductive purposes.  (d) A person who is found to have knowingly violated subsection (a) shall be punished by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not less than 5 years nor more than 10 years or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $1,000,000. In addition to such penalty, and at the discretion of the court, a person who is found to have knowingly violated this section and derives a personal financial profit from such violation may be ordered to pay all or part of any such profits to the commonwealth as damages.  (e) A person who is found to have knowingly violated subsection (b) or subsection (c) shall be punished by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not less than 1 year nor more than 2 years or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years or by a fine of not more than $100,000.
MA Gen L ch 111m § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111m - Individual Health Coverage|Section 3 - Exemption for Refusal of Coverage Based Upon Sincerely Held Religious Belief; Administration; Data Sharing

Section 3. An individual shall be exempt from section 2 if he files a sworn affidavit with his income tax return stating that he did not have creditable coverage and that his sincerely held religious beliefs are the basis of his refusal to obtain and maintain creditable coverage during the 12 months of the taxable year for which the return was filed. Any individual who claimed an exemption but received medical health care during the taxable year for which the return is filed shall be liable for providing or arranging for full payment for the medical health care and be subject to the penalty assessed under section 2. The department of revenue and the center for health information and analysis may conduct data matches for the purposes of administering this section. The center may disclose to the department whether a health care provider has submitted data indicating that it has provided health care services during the relevant tax year to an individual claiming an exemption under this section.
MA Gen L ch 111m § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111m - Individual Health Coverage|Section 4 - Review of Applicability or Affordability Determination

Section 4. An individual subject to section 2, who disputes the determination of applicability or affordability, as enforced by the department of revenue, may seek a review of this determination through an appeal established by the board of the commonwealth health insurance connector, under chapter 176Q; provided, however, that no additional penalties shall be enforced against an individual seeking review until the review is complete and any subsequent appeals are exhausted.
MA Gen L ch 111m § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111m - Individual Health Coverage|Section 5 - Rules and Regulations

Section 5. The commissioner of revenue, in consultation with the board of the commonwealth health insurance connector, established by chapter 176Q, shall promulgate such rules and regulations, as necessary, to carry out this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 111n § 2a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111n - Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturer Conduct|Section 2a - Provision of Refreshments by Pharmaceutical or Medical Device Manufacturing Company at Non&ndash;cme Educational Presentations

Section 2A. No pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturing company shall provide modest meals and refreshments, or provide payment for such meals and refreshments, in connection with non–CME educational presentations as permitted in section 2 unless such pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturing company files quarterly reports detailing all non–CME educational presentations at which such meals or refreshments are provided. Reports shall include: (1) the location of the non–CME presentation; (2) a description of any pharmaceutical products, medical devices or other products discussed at such presentation; and (3) the total amount expended on such presentation and an estimate of the amount expended per participant, factoring any meals, refreshments or other items of economic value provided at such presentation. The department may require payment of a fee, to be determined by the department, to pay the costs of administering this section.
MA Gen L ch 111n § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111n - Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturer Conduct|Section 3 - Violations of Marketing Code of Conduct Prohibited

Section 3. No pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturer company or pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturer agent shall knowingly and willfully violate the marketing code of conduct as adopted by the department.