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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 894 FILED ON: 1/13/2025 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1948 |
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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 | | Sean Reid |
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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 protect nonhuman primate infants in research institutions and product testing facilities. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Sean Reid11th Essex1/13/2025Lindsay N. Sabadosa1st Hampshire1/17/2025Sean Garballey23rd Middlesex1/25/2025Michelle L. Badger1st Plymouth1/26/2025Samantha Montaño15th Suffolk2/25/2025Margaret R. Scarsdale1st Middlesex2/25/2025Patrick Joseph Kearney4th Plymouth2/25/2025Estela A. Reyes4th Essex2/25/2025Michael D. BradySecond Plymouth and Norfolk2/25/2025Daniel Cahill10th Essex2/10/2025Colleen M. Garry36th Middlesex2/25/2025James C. Arena-DeRosa8th Middlesex2/25/2025Jennifer Balinsky Armini8th Essex2/18/2025Natalie M. Higgins4th Worcester2/25/2025 1 of 3 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 894 FILED ON: 1/13/2025 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1948 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Reid of Lynn, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1948) of Sean Reid |
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| 19 | 19 | | and others for legislation to protect nonhuman primate infants in research institutions and |
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| 20 | 20 | | product testing facilities. The Judiciary. |
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| 21 | 21 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 22 | 22 | | _______________ |
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| 23 | 23 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court |
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| 24 | 24 | | (2025-2026) |
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| 25 | 25 | | _______________ |
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| 26 | 26 | | An Act to protect nonhuman primate infants in research institutions and product testing facilities. |
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| 27 | 27 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 28 | 28 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 29 | 29 | | 1 SECTION 1. Chapter 272 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after |
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| 30 | 30 | | 2Section 80G the following new section:- |
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| 31 | 31 | | 3 Section 80G1/2. |
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| 32 | 32 | | 4 (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless |
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| 33 | 33 | | 5the context clearly requires otherwise: |
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| 34 | 34 | | 6 “Commissioner”, the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. |
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| 35 | 35 | | 7 “Contract testing facility”, a partnership, corporation, association, or other legal |
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| 36 | 36 | | 8relationship that tests cosmetics or other products, product formulations, chemicals, or |
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| 37 | 37 | | 9ingredients. 2 of 3 |
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| 38 | 38 | | 10 “Product testing facility”, a facility that is using animals for the testing of consumer |
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| 39 | 39 | | 11products, including, but not limited to, cosmetics, pesticides, medical devices, food additives, |
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| 40 | 40 | | 12and ingredients for use in such products. |
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| 41 | 41 | | 13 “Research institution”, any facility employing nonhuman primates in scientific |
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| 42 | 42 | | 14investigation, experiment or instruction or for the testing of drugs or medicines licensed by the |
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| 43 | 43 | | 15commissioner of public health under section 174D. |
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| 44 | 44 | | 16 “Nonhuman primate (NHP)”, any primate species except humans, including but not |
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| 45 | 45 | | 17limited to rhesus macaques, long-tailed (i.e., crab-eating or cynomolgus) macaques, stump-tailed |
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| 46 | 46 | | 18macaques, pig-tailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, African green monkeys, |
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| 47 | 47 | | 19marmosets, baboons, spider monkeys, capuchin monkeys, and titi monkeys. |
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| 48 | 48 | | 20 (b) A research institution or product testing facility that utilizes infant NHPs in |
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| 49 | 49 | | 21experiments shall not remove or separately house the infants from their respective biological |
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| 50 | 50 | | 22mothers for the purposes of research, experimentation, or product testing. |
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| 51 | 51 | | 23 (c) An infant NHP may be temporarily removed or separately housed from its mother |
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| 52 | 52 | | 24only for the medical welfare of either or both NHPs. Upon removal or separation, psychological |
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| 53 | 53 | | 25and physical distress shall be minimized for both NHPs without use of sedatives, restraint chairs, |
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| 54 | 54 | | 26or similar equipment, and reunion of the NHPs shall not be delayed unless medically necessary. |
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| 55 | 55 | | 27 (d) The prohibition in subsection (b) shall begin at the time of the infant NHP’s birth |
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| 56 | 56 | | 28through his/her first twelve (12) months of life. |
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| 57 | 57 | | 29 (e) The commissioner shall promulgate regulations to implement, enforce, and administer |
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| 58 | 58 | | 30this section. 3 of 3 |
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| 59 | 59 | | 31 SECTION 2. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations to implement this Act no |
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| 60 | 60 | | 32later than ninety (90) days following its passage. Section 1 shall take effect 90 days after passage |
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| 61 | 61 | | 33of this Act and Section 2 shall take effect upon passage of this Act. |
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