SENATE DOCKET, NO. 689        FILED ON: 1/15/2015

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1429

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Michael F. Rush

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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 surviving family of emergency medical technicians.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

 

Michael F. Rush

Norfolk and Suffolk

 

Mayor Martin J. Walsh

Boston City Hall One City Hall Square Boston, MA 02201

 

Paul McMurtry

11th Norfolk

 

Daniel J. Ryan

2nd Suffolk

 

Jason M. Lewis

Fifth Middlesex

 

Walter F. Timilty

7th Norfolk

 

Sal N. DiDomenico

Middlesex and Suffolk

 

Linda Dorcena Forry

First Suffolk

 

Daniel J. Hunt

13th Suffolk

 

Edward F. Coppinger

10th Suffolk

 

Thomas P. Kennedy

Second Plymouth and Bristol

3/4/2015


SENATE DOCKET, NO. 689        FILED ON: 1/15/2015

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1429

By Mr. Rush, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1429) of Michael F. Rush, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Paul McMurtry, Daniel J. Ryan and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to surviving family of emergency medical technicians.  Public Service.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth General Court
(2015-2016)

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An Act relative to surviving family of emergency medical technicians.

 

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 100 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2012 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “death,” in line 14 the following words:-

or if a public emergency medical technician while in the performance of his duties and as the result of an assault on his person or as a result of an accident while responding to or returning from any emergency or as the result of an accident involving an EMS department vehicle, which the emergency medical technician is operating or in which he is riding or while at the scene of any emergency is killed or sustains injuries while on duty which result in his death,

SECTION 2.  Section 100 of said chapter 32, as so appearing, is further amended by inserting after the words “police officer” in lines 15, 17-18, 21, 25, 43, 50, 64, 72, 76-77, and 85  the following words:

, public emergency medical technician