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| 2 | 2 | | SENATE DOCKET, NO. 2144 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1060 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Mark C. Montigny |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act to provide a DNA exception for statute of limitations on sex offenses. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :Mark C. MontignySecond Bristol and PlymouthAdam Scanlon14th Bristol1/24/2023Michael O. MooreSecond Worcester2/15/2023James B. EldridgeMiddlesex and Worcester2/17/2023Anne M. GobiWorcester and Hampshire2/21/2023 1 of 1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | SENATE DOCKET, NO. 2144 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1060 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Mr. Montigny, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1060) of Mark C. Montigny, |
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| 19 | 19 | | Adam Scanlon, Michael O. Moore, James B. Eldridge and others for legislation to provide a |
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| 20 | 20 | | DNA exception for statute of limitations on sex offenses. The Judiciary. |
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| 21 | 21 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEE SENATE, NO. 1096 OF 2021-2022.] |
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| 23 | 23 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 24 | 24 | | _______________ |
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| 25 | 25 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 26 | 26 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 27 | 27 | | _______________ |
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| 28 | 28 | | An Act to provide a DNA exception for statute of limitations on sex offenses. |
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| 29 | 29 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 30 | 30 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 31 | 31 | | 1 Section 63 of chapter 277 of the General Laws, as so appearing in the 2020 Official |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2Edition, is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof the following paragraph:- |
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| 33 | 33 | | 3 Notwithstanding the first paragraph, a prosecution for a sex offense, as defined in section |
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| 34 | 34 | | 4178C of chapter 6, may be commenced at any time if forensic evidence, as defined in section 220 |
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| 35 | 35 | | 5of chapter 111, has been collected and preserved, and if such forensic evidence can be subjected |
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| 36 | 36 | | 6to DNA analysis, as defined in section 1 of chapter 22E, that can establish the identity of the |
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| 37 | 37 | | 7defendant. |
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