HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4016        FILED ON: 2/19/2021

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3957

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Mike Connolly and Erika Uyterhoeven

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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 compelling the president and fellows of Harvard College to divest from fossil fuel.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Mike Connolly

26th Middlesex

2/19/2021

Erika Uyterhoeven

27th Middlesex

2/19/2021

Michelle M. DuBois

10th Plymouth

2/26/2021

David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf

17th Worcester

6/11/2021

Lindsay N. Sabadosa

1st Hampshire

6/14/2021

Jay D. Livingstone

8th Suffolk

6/23/2021

Natalie M. Higgins

4th Worcester

7/22/2021


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4016        FILED ON: 2/19/2021

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3957

By Representatives Connolly of Cambridge and Uyterhoeven of Somerville, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3957) of Mike Connolly, Erika Uyterhoeven and others relative to compelling the president and fellows of Harvard College to divest from fossil fuel.  Higher Education.

 

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 compelling the president and fellows of Harvard College to divest from fossil fuel.

 

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

Pursuant to Article 3 of section 1 of chapter 5 of Part the Second of the Constitution and for the public good and to act for the benefit of the inhabitants of the commonwealth during the climate emergency and to prevent the catastrophic destruction of the commonwealth’s natural resources, no governing body of Harvard college shall directly or indirectly invest of the funds of the college, by holding stock, security, equity, asset or other obligation of a corporation or company, in an entity that produces fossil fuels, including coal, coke, distillate oil, residual oil, used oil fuel or natural or manufactured gas.