SENATE DOCKET, NO. 2533        FILED ON: 4/13/2010

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2383

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act relative to assault and battery on health care providers.

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

Chapter 265 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section 13I, as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

Section 13I.  Whoever commits an assault or an assault and battery on an emergency medical technician, an ambulance operator, an ambulance attendant or a health care provider as defined in section 1 of chapter 111, while the technician, operator, attendant or provider is treating or transporting a person in the line of duty, shall be punished by imprisonment in the house of correction for not less than 90 days nor more than 2 1/2 years or by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, or both.