HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 494        FILED ON: 1/25/2021

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 243

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Jack Patrick Lewis

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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 expanding access to adoption.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Jack Patrick Lewis

7th Middlesex

1/21/2021

Maria Duaime Robinson

6th Middlesex

1/25/2021

Brian M. Ashe

2nd Hampden

1/26/2021

Kay Khan

11th Middlesex

1/26/2021

Lindsay N. Sabadosa

1st Hampshire

1/26/2021

Steven C. Owens

29th Middlesex

1/26/2021

Patrick Joseph Kearney

4th Plymouth

1/26/2021

Steven Ultrino

33rd Middlesex

1/27/2021

Steven G. Xiarhos

5th Barnstable

1/27/2021

Carol A. Doherty

3rd Bristol

1/27/2021

Paul J. Donato

35th Middlesex

1/28/2021

Hannah Kane

11th Worcester

1/29/2021

Patricia A. Duffy

5th Hampden

1/29/2021

Carmine Lawrence Gentile

13th Middlesex

2/1/2021

Shawn Dooley

9th Norfolk

2/1/2021

Bud L. Williams

11th Hampden

2/3/2021

James K. Hawkins

2nd Bristol

2/4/2021

Tram T. Nguyen

18th Essex

2/5/2021

Jessica Ann Giannino

16th Suffolk

2/10/2021

Colleen M. Garry

36th Middlesex

2/16/2021

Jonathan D. Zlotnik

2nd Worcester

2/18/2021

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

20th Middlesex

2/19/2021

Natalie M. Higgins

4th Worcester

2/19/2021

Tami L. Gouveia

14th Middlesex

2/22/2021

Smitty Pignatelli

4th Berkshire

2/22/2021

Kathleen R. LaNatra

12th Plymouth

2/24/2021

Thomas M. Stanley

9th Middlesex

2/24/2021

David Allen Robertson

19th Middlesex

2/25/2021

Kate Lipper-Garabedian

32nd Middlesex

2/26/2021

Susan L. Moran

Plymouth and Barnstable

2/26/2021

David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf

17th Worcester

2/26/2021

Tricia Farley-Bouvier

3rd Berkshire

2/26/2021

Carolyn C. Dykema

8th Middlesex

3/26/2021


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 494        FILED ON: 1/25/2021

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 243

By Mr. Lewis of Framingham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 243) of Jack Patrick Lewis and others relative to expanding access to adoption.  Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 1492 OF 2019-2020.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Second General Court
(2021-2022)

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An Act expanding access to adoption.

 

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 1 of chapter 210 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out in at the first sentence, the words “, or brother, sister, uncle or aunt, of the whole or half blood”.