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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1014 FILED ON: 1/14/2025
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Christopher J. Worrell
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act providing for an audit of gun violence prevention and intervention funding.
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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Christopher J. Worrell5th Suffolk1/14/2025Robyn K. KennedyFirst Worcester3/12/2025 1 of 2
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1014 FILED ON: 1/14/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2733
By Representative Worrell of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2733) of
Christopher J. Worrell for legislation to provide for an audit and an investigation by a special
commission concerning gun violence prevention and intervention funding. Public Safety and
Homeland Security.
[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 2420 OF 2023-2024.]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)
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An Act providing for an audit of gun violence prevention and intervention funding.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 (a) There shall be established, pursuant to section 2A of chapter 4 of the 2022 General
2Laws, a special legislative commission on gun violence. The commission shall conduct an audit
3and investigation into gun violence prevention funding in the Commonwealth.
4 (b) The special legislative commission shall consist of members of grassroots and
5community-based gun violence organizations from communities most impacted by gun violence.
6 (c) The audit and investigation shall include, but not be limited to, an examination of all
7gun violence and intervention funding in the commonwealth, including, but not limited to: (i)
8funding appropriated to and expended by the Massachusetts office for victim assistance for the
9purposes of addressing gun violence and prevention; (ii) funding appropriated for and expended 2 of 2
10by the grant program administered by the executive office of public safety known as the Senator
11Charles E. Shannon, Jr. Community Safety Initiative for the purposes of addressing gun violence
12and prevention; (iii) funding appropriated to and expended for the safe and successful youth
13initiative for the purposes of addressing gun violence and prevention; (iv) funding appropriated
14to and expended for youth-at-risk and primary violence prevention programs; (v) funding
15appropriated to and expended for the neighborhood-based gun and violent crime prevention pilot
16program for targeted work with out-of-school youth and young adults aged 17 to 24; (vi) which
17communities, broken down by census tract, have been most impacted by gun violence; and (vii)
18in which communities, broken down by census tract, funds have been expended to address gun
19violence and prevention.
20 (d) The special legislative commission shall submit a report within 180 days of the
21effective date of this act detailing the findings of the investigation and recommendations,
22including, but not limited to, a recommendation of whether the neighborhood-based gun and
23violent crime prevention pilot program should be made a permanent program in the department
24of public health or re-established in another department, to the secretary of public safety; the
25secretary of health and human services; the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate;
26the joint committee on public safety and homeland security; the joint committee on racial equity,
27civil rights and inclusion; and the joint committee on ways and means.