Scope and Content: Subject files contain background information and studies relating to the function of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners and its predecessor, 1866-1879, the Board of Harbor Commissioners, to care for, supervise, and develop the waterways of Massachusetts.
Notes: Series consists of miscellaneous documents brought together during processing; some predate holding agencies
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Scope and Content: The Division of Academic Affairs under the Board of Regents of Higher Education is responsible for granting approval to public colleges and universities seeking to establish new degree programs or to modify existing ones; for evaluating academic programs; and for participating in systemwide planning for state institutions of higher education and in other board functions.  Subject files contain minutes, agendas, reports, memoranda, and correspondence of special task forces, committees, and planning groups relating to these and other activities in which the division is involved.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject
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Scope and Content: The Subdivision of Research and Statistics was established in the Division of Aid and Relief (Dept. of Public Welfare) in 1937.  By 1939 it was renamed Bureau of Research and Statistics and by 1940 was an independent unit within the department.  It was renamed successively: Division of Research and Planning (1970), Division of Statistics and Analysis (1971), Office of Research and Planning (mid-1970s), Office of Research and Evaluation (1979), and Office of Research, Evaluation, and Planning (1983)
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject, within broad categories
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Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject
Notes: Cartons numbered 11-28
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Scope and Content: The Division of Mental Retardation of the Dept. of Mental Health had administrative oversight of public institutions for mentally retarded clients and care of such individuals living outside institutions, as does its successor the Dept. of Mental Retardation.  Much of this material was created by the division in response to consent decrees imposed by federal courts resulting from suits brought by client advocates and guardians.  A court-appointed monitor directed detailed corrections of individual treatment facilities and client programs during this period.  These subject files contain correspondence with advocacy groups, statistical information, internal memoranda, certification reports, assessments of institutional needs, surveys of conditions and services, and correction reports.
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Scope and Content: Savings Bank Life Insurance (SBLI) was a state-regulated program for Massachusetts savings bank insurance departments conceived of and promoted by then Boston attorney and later Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.  St 1907, c 561, drafted by Brandeis, authorized savings banks incorporated in Massachusetts, under the auspices of the bank commissioner and the insurance commissioner, to establish insurance departments for the purpose of issuing life insurance policies.  The statute also established the General Insurance Guaranty Fund (GIGF) to provide protection for policy-holders. From 1919-1991 the program was run as the Division of Savings Bank Life Insurance, Dept. of Banking and Insurance.  It was supported successively by the Massachusetts Savings Insurance League (1906) and the Savings Bank Life Insurance Council (1938, incorporated 1947)
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts, September 18, 2001
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Scope and Content: Since 1971 the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 1992) has been responsible through its constituent agencies for the delivery of a wide range of services to persons with financial, health, social, protective, rehabilitation, and correctional needs. Its role is one of management and fiscal oversight, coordination of interagency planning and program development, and policy analysis.  Series was created to provide information for carrying out these responsibilities.
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Banks and Banking, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning banks, banking institutions, credit unions, small loans, consumer credit, and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Subject files are created to provide background for these activities.
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Commerce and Labor, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning commercial, industrial, and mercantile establishments; industrial development; consumer protection; discrimination in employment; mobile home parks; and other matters referred. It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation. Subject files are compiled by and for the committee during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation to create a portfolio of background information, related research, and news concerning topics brought to the committee’s attention through legislation and hearings. –Files contain background materials on subjects concerning proposed legislation drafted and reviewed by the committee. Documents include fiscal and annual reports, brochures, pamphlets, correspondences, and newspaper clippings. Major subjects for the 1970s include gay rights and job security; for the 1980s, discrimination against women in the workplace;  for the 1990s, temporary disability.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year
Notes:  Files for 1973-1977, 1987-1989, 1992-1993, 1999. For similar materials for these and other years see: Hearing files ((M-Ar)1118). Pre-1992 files chiefly transferred from that series. Box 1: 1973-1977. Box 2: 1987-1989. Box 3: Box 1989-1993. Box 4: 1999
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Election Laws considers all matters concerning elections, election laws, and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Subject files are compiled during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
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