HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1341        FILED ON: 1/16/2019

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3180

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Thomas P. Walsh and Bruce E. Tarr

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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 establishing the Blue Star Family license plate.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Thomas P. Walsh

12th Essex

1/16/2019

Bruce E. Tarr

First Essex and Middlesex

1/16/2019

John Nelson

Massachusetts Coalition of Police, P.O.Box 768, Millbury, Ma 01527

1/18/2019

Larry Calderone

Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, 295 Freeport Street Boston, MA 02122

1/18/2019

Michael Muse

Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society, 434 Hyde Park Avenue Roslindale, MA

1/18/2019

Timothy R. Whelan

1st Barnstable

1/24/2019

Shawn Dooley

9th Norfolk

1/25/2019

John Barrett, III

1st Berkshire

1/25/2019

David F. DeCoste

5th Plymouth

1/25/2019

Steven Ultrino

33rd Middlesex

1/28/2019

Aaron Vega

5th Hampden

1/28/2019

Walter F. Timilty

Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth

1/28/2019

Susan Williams Gifford

2nd Plymouth

1/28/2019

Danielle W. Gregoire

4th Middlesex

1/28/2019

F. Jay Barrows

1st Bristol

1/29/2019

Louis L. Kafka

8th Norfolk

1/29/2019

Ann-Margaret Ferrante

5th Essex

1/29/2019

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

20th Middlesex

1/29/2019

Joseph W. McGonagle, Jr.

28th Middlesex

1/29/2019

Daniel J. Hunt

13th Suffolk

1/30/2019

David Paul Linsky

5th Middlesex

1/30/2019

Angelo L. D'Emilia

8th Plymouth

1/30/2019

Ryan C. Fattman

Worcester and Norfolk

1/30/2019

Bud L. Williams

11th Hampden

1/30/2019

Paul K. Frost

7th Worcester

1/30/2019

Carmine Lawrence Gentile

13th Middlesex

1/30/2019

Todd M. Smola

1st Hampden

1/30/2019

Stephan Hay

3rd Worcester

1/30/2019

Hannah Kane

11th Worcester

1/31/2019

Natalie M. Higgins

4th Worcester

1/31/2019

Thomas A. Golden, Jr.

16th Middlesex

1/31/2019

Michael O. Moore

Second Worcester

1/31/2019

Denise Provost

27th Middlesex

1/31/2019

Michael D. Brady

Second Plymouth and Bristol

1/31/2019

Patrick M. O'Connor

Plymouth and Norfolk

1/31/2019

Alan Silvia

7th Bristol

1/31/2019

Harold P. Naughton, Jr.

12th Worcester

1/31/2019

Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr.

5th Worcester

1/31/2019

Kate Hogan

3rd Middlesex

1/31/2019

Sal N. DiDomenico

Middlesex and Suffolk

2/1/2019

John C. Velis

4th Hampden

2/1/2019

Joseph D. McKenna

18th Worcester

2/1/2019

James Arciero

2nd Middlesex

2/1/2019

Daniel Cahill

10th Essex

2/1/2019

David K. Muradian, Jr.

9th Worcester

2/1/2019

Elizabeth A. Poirier

14th Bristol

2/1/2019

Paul F. Tucker

7th Essex

2/1/2019

John H. Rogers

12th Norfolk

2/1/2019

Brian W. Murray

10th Worcester

2/1/2019

Bruce J. Ayers

1st Norfolk

2/1/2019

David M. Rogers

24th Middlesex

2/1/2019

David T. Vieira

3rd Barnstable

2/1/2019

James K. Hawkins

2nd Bristol

2/1/2019


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1341        FILED ON: 1/16/2019

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3180

By Representative Walsh of Peabody and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3180) of Thomas P. Walsh, Bruce E. Tarr and others relative to establishing the Blue Star Family license plate in honor of police officers killed in the line of duty.  Transportation.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 1916 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 establishing the Blue Star Family license plate.

 

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

Section 2 of chapter 90 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the twentieth paragraph, as appearing in the 2014 Official Edition, the following paragraph:-

The registrar shall furnish without charge to the owner of a private passenger motor vehicle who is a parent, child or spouse of a police officer of a police department of any city or town, the department of state police or the Massachusetts bay transportation authority police department, who has been killed in the line of duty, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence to the registrar, a distinctive registration plate that reads "Blue Star Family" for 1 private passenger motor vehicle owned and principally used by that person or a distinctive "Blue Star Family" emblem to be affixed to a registration plate for a motorcycle privately owned and principally used by that person. The registrar may issue a distinctive "Blue Star Family" registration of up to 6 characters for 1 private passenger motor vehicle owned and principally used by that person. A police officer shall be determined to have been killed in the line of duty for purposes of this paragraph if the circumstance meets those which would make them eligible to be placed on the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington D.C.