HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1063        FILED ON: 1/15/2019

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 196

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Ruth B. Balser

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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 kosher food signage.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Ruth B. Balser

12th Middlesex

1/14/2019

Rachmiel Liberman

 

1/15/2019

Cynthia Stone Creem

First Middlesex and Norfolk

2/1/2019

Louis L. Kafka

8th Norfolk

1/23/2019

Brian M. Ashe

2nd Hampden

1/25/2019

Rebecca L. Rausch

Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex

1/30/2019

José F. Tosado

9th Hampden

1/31/2019

Denise Provost

27th Middlesex

1/31/2019


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1063        FILED ON: 1/15/2019

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 196

By Ms. Balser of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 196) of Ruth B. Balser and others relative to kosher food signage.  Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 4461 OF 2017-2018.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-First General Court
(2019-2020)

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An Act relative to kosher food signage.

 

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

Section 156 of chapter 94 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after subsection (f) the following subsection:-             

(f ½) If the certification of a person, firm, association or corporation selling food or food products advertised or represented to be kosher, kosher for Passover, pareve or as having been prepared in accordance with Orthodox Jewish religious standards which it has manufactured, distilled, produced, processed or packed is suspended or terminated by the certifying authority, the person, firm, association or corporation shall display a sign, approved by the attorney general, on the door or window or anywhere in front of the place of business stating “Kosher Certification Revoked” in a size which will call such fact to the reader's attention.