Budget Amendment ID: FY2023-S4-989

EPS 989

Providing the next of kin of a police officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty wit the flags of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and of the United States of America

Messrs. Tarr, Pacheco and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended  by inserting after section _ the following new section:-

"SECTION _. Chapter 32 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 89E the following section:-

Section 89F. If a sworn police officer of a police department of city or town, a sworn police officer of the department of state police or a firefighter for a fire department of a city or town, is killed, or dies from injuries received, or dies as a natural or proximate result of undergoing a hazard peculiar to his or her employment, while in the performance of his or her duty, their next of kin shall receive a flag of the commonwealth of Massachusetts and a flag of the United States during the memorial service, the cost of which shall be borne by the commonwealth."