HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2099        FILED ON: 1/20/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2122

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

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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 adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to public housing restrictions for sex offenders.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

20th Middlesex

1/20/2011

Marc T. Lombardo

22nd Middlesex

1/27/2011

Donald F. Humason, Jr.

4th Hampden

1/27/2011

Angelo L. D'Emilia

8th Plymouth

2/1/2011

Geoff Diehl

7th Plymouth

2/2/2011

F. Jay Barrows

1st Bristol

2/2/2011

Shaunna O'Connell

3rd Bristol

2/2/2011

Susan Williams Gifford

2nd Plymouth

2/2/2011

George T. Ross

2nd Bristol

2/3/2011

Donald H. Wong

9th Essex

2/3/2011

Todd M. Smola

1st Hampden

2/3/2011

Sheila C. Harrington

1st Middlesex

2/3/2011

Matthew A. Beaton

11th Worcester

2/4/2011

Steven L. Levy

4th Middlesex

2/4/2011

Paul K. Frost

7th Worcester

2/4/2011

Paul Adams

17th Essex

2/4/2011

George N. Peterson, Jr.

9th Worcester

1/26/2011

Elizabeth A. Poirier

14th Bristol

1/21/2011

Viriato Manuel deMacedo

1st Plymouth

2/1/2011


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2099        FILED ON: 1/20/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2122

By Mr. Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2122) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr. and others for legislation to require local housing authorities to deny certain convicted sex offenders access to state-subsidized public housing facilities.  Housing.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Eleven

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An Act relative to public housing restrictions for sex offenders.

 

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 26 of chapter 121B of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2008 official edition, is hereby amended by inserting after subsection (o), the following subsection:— (p) Shall deny access to public housing facilities that are subsidized by the commonwealth for all persons who have been convicted of Level 2 or Level 3 sex offenses in the commonwealth.