Past Legislative Projects

They were Legislative Policy & Drafting Clinic projects. Now they're laws:

Increased Organ Donations through Education and Access
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Chapter 466 of the Acts of 2002

Legislative Clinic Client: Rep. Thomas N. George
Legislative Clinic Drafter: Laura Martin ('01)

Insurance and Genetic Testing and Privacy Protection
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Chapter 254 of the Acts of 2000

Legislative Clinic Client: Sen. David P. Magnani
Legislative Clinic Drafter: Sherry Ruschioni (’99)

General Legislative Projects

Aiding resolution of landlord-tenant disputes
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation
Preventing electric power shortages
Massachusetts Senate/House Joint Committee on Energy
Increasing affordable housing for students
Citizen’s Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA)
Protecting privacy of social security numbers
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
Improving the adoption process for foster children
Massachusetts Appleseed Center
Bottle Bill II: improving recycling of beverage containers
Massachusetts Senate/House Joint Committee on Energy
Protecting privacy of customer lists on the Internet
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation

Intellectual Property Legislative Projects

Providing digital textbooks for handicapped children
Center for Applied Special Technology
Protecting local agricultural innovations from foreign patents
OXFAM America
Establishing intellectual property rights in digital databases
Mr. Justin Hughes, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Establishing "fair use" protection for use of software
American Library Association, Washington, D.C.
Reconciling conflicting rights in the exchange of digital music files
Mr. Harold Feld, Media Access Project, Washington, D.C.
Establishing "fair use" protection in the archiving of digital works
Prof. Randall Davis, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Preventing misuse of trademark and "anti-cybersquatting" protections to shut down Web sites critical of corporations
Mr. Harold Feld, Media Access Project
Washington, D.C.
Preventing the use of patents for "biopiracy"
International Intellectual Property Institute
Preventing the use of copyright protection to limit the competition in the manufacture of replacement parts
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Health & Environmental Legislative Projects

Reducing the spread of hepatitis and HIV
Sen. Robert A. O'Leary
Providing health insurance for small business employees
Rep. Ruth Balser
Assuring health insurance coverage for therapies for autism
Sen. Michael W. Morrissey
Assuring health insurance coverage for emergency medical treatment
Laurie C. Tingsley Foundation
Assuring health insurance coverage for hearing aids
Sen. Stephen M. Brewer