HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1147        FILED ON: 1/16/2013

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1302

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Carolyn C. Dykema

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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 providing protection from subsequent restraining order violations.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Carolyn C. Dykema

8th Middlesex

1/16/2013

Gerard T. Leone

Middlesex District Attorney

 

Katherine M. Clark

Fifth Middlesex

 

David Paul Linsky

5th Middlesex

 

Thomas M. Stanley

9th Middlesex

 

Cory Atkins

14th Middlesex

 

Danielle W. Gregoire

4th Middlesex

 

Kay Khan

11th Middlesex

 

John J. Lawn, Jr.

10th Middlesex

 

John W. Scibak

2nd Hampshire

1/30/2013

Denise Andrews

2nd Franklin

1/31/2013

Denise Provost

27th Middlesex

1/31/2013

Thomas P. Conroy

13th Middlesex

 

Daniel B. Winslow

9th Norfolk

 


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1147        FILED ON: 1/16/2013

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1302

By Ms. Dykema of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1302) of Carolyn C. Dykema and others relative to the penalty for subsequent restraining order violations.  The Judiciary.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 2159 OF 2011-2012.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Thirteen

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An Act providing protection from subsequent restraining order violations.

 

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 7 of chapter 209A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting at line 45, after the first sentence in the fifth paragraph, the following:- 

Whoever violates such order or a protection order issued by another jurisdiction after having previously been convicted of violating an order issued pursuant to chapter 209A or a protection order issued by another jurisdiction, or after having previously been convicted pursuant to section 13A(b)(iii) or section 43(b) of chapter 265, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than two and one-half years.