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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 747 FILED ON: 1/13/2025 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2736 |
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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 | | Steven George Xiarhos and Richard G. Wells, Jr. |
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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 relative to the security of exercise equipment and free weights in correctional |
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| 13 | 13 | | institutions. |
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| 14 | 14 | | _______________ |
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| 15 | 15 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 16 | 16 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Steven George Xiarhos5th Barnstable1/13/2025Richard G. Wells, Jr.7th Norfolk1/13/2025Paul K. Frost7th Worcester1/25/2025Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr.5th Worcester2/11/2025Joseph D. McKenna18th Worcester2/11/2025 1 of 1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 747 FILED ON: 1/13/2025 |
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| 18 | 18 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2736 |
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| 19 | 19 | | By Representatives Xiarhos of Barnstable and Wells of Milton, a petition (accompanied by bill, |
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| 20 | 20 | | House, No. 2736) of Steven George Xiarhos, Richard G. Wells, Jr. and others relative to the |
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| 21 | 21 | | security of exercise equipment and free weights in correctional institutions. Public Safety and |
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| 22 | 22 | | Homeland Security. |
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| 23 | 23 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 24 | 24 | | SEE HOUSE, NO. 2422 OF 2023-2024.] |
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| 25 | 25 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 26 | 26 | | _______________ |
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| 27 | 27 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court |
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| 28 | 28 | | (2025-2026) |
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| 29 | 29 | | _______________ |
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| 30 | 30 | | An Act relative to the security of exercise equipment and free weights in correctional |
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| 31 | 31 | | institutions. |
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| 32 | 32 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 33 | 33 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 34 | 34 | | 1 SECTION 1. This Act shall be commonly known as "Matt's Law". |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2 SECTION 2. Section 14 of Chapter 125 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2018 |
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| 36 | 36 | | 3Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof the following sentence:- The |
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| 37 | 37 | | 4superintendent shall be responsible for ensuring that any and all exercise equipment accessible |
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| 38 | 38 | | 5by inmates is secured in order to prevent its removal and that no inmate in a medium-security or |
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| 39 | 39 | | 6maximum-security correctional institution has access to any free weights. |
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