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Required Reports to Administration and Finance
SECTION 81. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, any agency, board, bureau, department, division, section, or commission of the commonwealth required to submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means pursuant to this act shall submit a copy of said report to the executive office of administration and finance.
Special Commission on Recidivism Rates
SECTION 87. There shall be a special commission to study the existing level of services offered by the department of correction, county jails and houses of correction, the potential benefit of additional services including, but not limited to, education, job skills training and housing and other ways to reduce recidivism rates. The commission shall consist of the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on public safety who shall serve as co-chairs, 4 persons to be appointed by the senate, 1 of whom shall be appointed by the minority leader, 4 persons to be appointed by the house, 1 of whom shall be appointed by the minority leader, the secretary of public safety or his designee, the secretary of health and human services or his designee; the secretary of labor or his designee; and 2 persons to be appointed by the governor who shall have experience in the area of re-entry services. The commission shall file its report, including any legislative or regulatory recommendations, with the clerks of the senate and the house of representatives not later than October 31, 2007.