SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1468        FILED ON: 1/20/2017

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1461

 

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 members of public emergency medical technicians.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

 

Michael F. Rush

Norfolk and Suffolk

 

Mayor Martin J. Walsh

One City Hall Square Suite 500 Boston, MA

 

Daniel J. Ryan

2nd Suffolk

 

Edward F. Coppinger

10th Suffolk

 

Daniel Cullinane

12th Suffolk

 

Kevin G. Honan

17th Suffolk

 

Daniel J. Hunt

13th Suffolk

 

Elizabeth A. Malia

11th Suffolk

 

Thomas M. McGee

Third Essex

1/30/2017

Barbara A. L'Italien

Second Essex and Middlesex

2/1/2017

Paul McMurtry

11th Norfolk

2/1/2017


SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1468        FILED ON: 1/20/2017

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1461

By Mr. Rush, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1461) of Michael F. Rush, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Daniel J. Ryan, Edward F. Coppinger and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to surviving family of emergency medical technicians.  Public Service.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE SENATE, NO. 1429 OF 2015-2016.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninetieth General Court
(2017-2018)

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An Act relative to surviving family members of public 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 2014 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 results 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

SECTION 3.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.