HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1771        FILED ON: 1/15/2025

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3811

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

_________________

PRESENTED BY:

Thomas P. Walsh

_________________

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.

_______________

PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Thomas P. Walsh

12th Essex

1/15/2025

Adrianne Pusateri Ramos

14th Essex

3/12/2025

Kevin G. Honan

17th Suffolk

3/25/2025

Christopher Hendricks

11th Bristol

5/2/2025

Steven George Xiarhos

5th Barnstable

5/2/2025

Jeffrey Rosario Turco

19th Suffolk

5/2/2025

David Paul Linsky

5th Middlesex

5/2/2025

Marc T. Lombardo

22nd Middlesex

5/2/2025

Sean Garballey

23rd Middlesex

5/7/2025

Adrian C. Madaro

1st Suffolk

5/14/2025

Peter J. Durant

Worcester and Hampshire

5/14/2025

Jennifer Balinsky Armini

8th Essex

5/15/2025

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

20th Middlesex

5/15/2025

Norman J. Orrall

12th Bristol

5/15/2025

Michael S. Chaisson

1st Bristol

5/15/2025

Steven S. Howitt

4th Bristol

5/15/2025

Thomas W. Moakley

Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket

5/15/2025

David T. Vieira

3rd Barnstable

5/15/2025

John J. Marsi

6th Worcester

5/21/2025

Hannah Kane

11th Worcester

5/21/2025

Nick Collins

First Suffolk

5/30/2025

Richard G. Wells, Jr.

7th Norfolk

6/10/2025

Adam J. Scanlon

14th Bristol

7/23/2025

Joseph D. McKenna

18th Worcester

9/9/2025

William F. MacGregor

10th Suffolk

9/9/2025

Danillo A. Sena

37th Middlesex

9/17/2025

Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.

12th Hampden

10/9/2025

Thomas M. Stanley

9th Middlesex

10/9/2025

Joseph W. McGonagle, Jr.

28th Middlesex

10/16/2025

Kristin E. Kassner

2nd Essex

10/22/2025


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1771        FILED ON: 1/15/2025

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3811

By Representative Walsh of Peabody, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3811) of Thomas P. Walsh 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. 3473 OF 2023-2024.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

_______________

In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)

_______________

 

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 line 671, as appearing in the 2022 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, sibling, or spouse of a police officer of a police department of any city or town, the department of state police, university 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.