COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

By His Excellency

EDWARD J. KING
Governor

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 219

Abolishing the Bay State Skills Commission and Transferring
its Remaining Functions and Responsibilities
to the Bay State Skills Corporation.

    WHEREAS, the Bay State Skills Commission was created in 1980 expressly to
encourage the development and increased accessibility of programs of skills training
and education consistent with employment need; and

    WHEREAS, said Commission was created by Executive Order No. 185, which
was later amended by Executive Order No. 192; and

    WHEREAS, the Bay State Skills Corporation was recently created pursuant to
Section 192 of Chapter 351 of the Acts of 1981, to serve as the permanent successor-
in-interest of said Commission; and

    WHEREAS, the Chairman or the Commission has recommended the abolition
of said Commission and the transfer of its remaining functions and responsibilities to
the Bay State Skills Corporation,

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, EDWARD J. KING, Governor of the Commonwealth, by
virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the
Commonwealth, do hereby order as follows:

    1. Executive Order No. 185 hereby revoked.
    
    2. Executive Order No. 192 is hereby revoked.

    3. Such functiom and responsibilities of the Commission as are necessary and
appropriate to conclude the affairs of said Commission are hereby transferred to the
Bay State Skills Corporation.

Given at the Executive Chamber in Boston
this 11th day of June in the year
of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
eighty-two and of the Independence of the
United States of America two hundred and
six.

EDWARD J. KING
Governor
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

MICHAEL JOSEPH CONNOLLY
Secretary of the Commonwealth

GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS