SENATE DOCKET, NO. 761        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1814

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act enhancing the punishment for child endangerment.

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

SECTION 1. Section 13L of Chapter 265 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end of the fifth paragraph the following phrase: "or in the state prison for not less than two and one-half years and not more than ten years."