Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Social Welfare was first constituted as a standing committee of the General Court as of 1968, and was renamed Joint Committee on Human Services and Elderly Affairs, effective 1975.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision; for conditions of access consult repository; MGLA c 4, s 7, cl 26(c) and c 66A
Notes: Files are as preserved by Jack H. Backman, Senate chair of the joint committee and its predecessor, 1971-1987.  Transferred with his personal political and legislative files and related reference materials to the College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Fall 1987, as the Backman Human Service Collection.  Presented to Archives, April 1995; transferred, May 1995
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