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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1581 FILED ON: 1/15/2025 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2901 |
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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 | | Jay D. Livingstone |
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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 providing fair and equitable line of duty death benefits for public employees. |
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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:Jay D. Livingstone8th Suffolk1/15/2025 1 of 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1581 FILED ON: 1/15/2025 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2901 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Livingstone of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2901) of |
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| 19 | 19 | | Jay D. Livingstone relative to line of duty death benefits for public employees. Public Service. |
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| 20 | 20 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 21 | 21 | | _______________ |
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| 22 | 22 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court |
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| 23 | 23 | | (2025-2026) |
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| 24 | 24 | | _______________ |
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| 25 | 25 | | An Act providing fair and equitable line of duty death benefits for public employees. |
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| 26 | 26 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 27 | 27 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 28 | 28 | | 1 Section 100A of Chapter 32 is hereby amended by striking subsection (c) in its entirety |
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| 29 | 29 | | 2and replacing it with the following: |
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| 30 | 30 | | 3 (c) The killed in the line of duty benefit shall be a 1-time payment of $300,000 to the |
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| 31 | 31 | | 4family of a deceased public employee. As used in this section deceased public employee shall |
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| 32 | 32 | | 5mean any public employee working for state or county government, a Massachusetts public |
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| 33 | 33 | | 6higher education institution, a municipality, public school department, or public school district or |
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| 34 | 34 | | 7public authority who, while in the performance of his/her duties and as a result of incident, |
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| 35 | 35 | | 8accident or violence, was killed or sustained injuries which were the direct and proximate cause |
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| 36 | 36 | | 9of his/her death. |
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| 37 | 37 | | 10 Section 100A of Chapter 32 is further amended in subsection (d) by replacing each |
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| 38 | 38 | | 11occurrence of the words “public safety employee” in this subsection with the words “public |
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| 39 | 39 | | 12employee” 2 of 2 |
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| 40 | 40 | | 13 Section 16 of Chapter 15A is hereby amended by inserting after the word "corrections |
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| 41 | 41 | | 14officer" the following words: - any public employee working for state or county government, a |
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| 42 | 42 | | 15Massachusetts public higher education institution, a municipality, public school department, or |
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| 43 | 43 | | 16public school district or public authority |
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