{"AmendmentNumber":"296","ParentBillNumber":"S3178","Bill":null,"Sponsor":{"Id":"RLR0","Name":"Rebecca L. Rausch","Type":1,"Details":"https://malegislature.gov/api/GeneralCourts/194/LegislativeMembers/RLR0","ResponseDate":"2026-07-23T22:03:29.263"},"Category":null,"Action":"Adopted","RollCall":[],"Title":"Crimes Against Women ","Branch":"Senate","RedraftNumber":1,"IsFurther":false,"GeneralCourtNumber":194,"Text":"Ms. Rausch, Messrs. Brownsberger, Lewis and Cronin, Ms. Kennedy, Mr. Brady, Ms. Creem, Ms. Howard, Mr. Tarr and Ms. Lovely move that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section 3A the following section:-\r\n“SECTION 3B. Section 116 of chapter 6 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2024 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-\r\nThe committee shall create and make available specialized training and continuing education for officers who conduct death investigations on the identification and investigation of deaths that may be related to domestic violence. The training shall include, but not be limited to: (i) the identification and detection of staged crime scenes; (ii) the engagement of multidisciplinary teams in the investigation of deaths preceded by domestic violence; and (iii) indicators of domestic homicide in suspicious death cases, including, but not limited to: (A) sudden or untimely death; (B) a history of domestic violence against the decedent, including, but not limited to, coercive control, strangulation, suffocation or other life-threatening behavior; (C) evidence that the decedent’s death followed the decedent or their intimate partner ending, or intending to end their relationship; (D) death in the decedent’s home or place of residence; (E) an appearance of death due to suicide or accident at the scene; (F) discovery of the decedent’s body by a current or former intimate partner; (G) evidence that the abuser, a child of the abuser or a child of the decedent was the last person to see the decedent alive; (H) evidence that the abuser had control of the scene of death before the arrival of law enforcement; and (I) evidence of tampering with the scene of death.”; and\r\nby inserting after section 137 the following section:-\r\n“SECTION 137A. Section 39 of chapter 265 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “origin”, in line 4, the following words:- , sex, gender.”.\r\n"}