{"AmendmentNumber":"870","ParentBillNumber":"S3","Bill":null,"Sponsor":{"Id":"BET0","Name":"Bruce E. Tarr","Type":1,"Details":"https://malegislature.gov/api/GeneralCourts/194/LegislativeMembers/BET0","ResponseDate":"2025-05-07T10:42:37.873"},"Category":"Public Safety","Action":"Rejected","RollCall":[],"Title":"Providing the Next of Kin of a Police Officer or Firefighter killed in the Line of Duty with the Flags of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and of the United States of America","Branch":"Senate","RedraftNumber":null,"IsFurther":false,"GeneralCourtNumber":194,"Text":"Messrs. Tarr, Fattman and Durant, Mrs. Dooner and Mr. O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section ___ the following section:- \r\n\"SECTION _. Chapter 32 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 89E the following section:- \r\nSection 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.\" \r\n"}