Bill Text: MA H2285 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishing the Massachusetts law enforcement memorial fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-18 - Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the House Committee On Ways and Means [H2285 Detail]

Download: Massachusetts-2009-H2285-Introduced.html

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Walter F. Timilty

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
                Court assembled:

                The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act establishing the Massachusetts law enforcement memorial fund.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Walter F. Timilty

7th Norfolk

Bruce J. Ayers

1st Norfolk

Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.

12th Hampden

Geraldo Alicea

6th Worcester

Todd M. Smola

1st Hampden

Michael F. Rush

10th Suffolk

Paul McMurtry

11th Norfolk


 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 63 OF 2007-2008.]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act establishing the Massachusetts law enforcement memorial fund.



                Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

            Chapter 10 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 35BB the following section:–

Section 35CC.  There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be know as the Massachusetts Laws Enforcement Memorial Fund to be used without appropriation by a department of public safety for the purpose of making annual payments to the Massachusetts Law Enforcement Memorial to memorialize and honor Massachusetts law enforcement personnel killed in the line of duty.  There shall be credited to the fund revenues received by the commonwealth from the sale of registration plates under section 2G of chapter 90.

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