Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Massachusetts House Bill H3790 Compare Versions

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2	2	HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2469 FILED ON: 1/16/2025
3	3	HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3790
4	4	The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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6	6	PRESENTED BY:
7	7	Kenneth P. Sweezey and Kathleen R. LaNatra
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9	9	To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
10	10	Court assembled:
11	11	The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
12	12	An Act designating a certain intersection in the town of Pembroke as the Lavina A. Hatch corner.
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14	14	PETITION OF:
15	15	NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Kenneth P. Sweezey6th Plymouth1/16/2025Kathleen R. LaNatra12th Plymouth1/16/2025 1 of 2
16	16	HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2469 FILED ON: 1/16/2025
17	17	HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3790
18	18	By Representatives Sweezey of Duxbury and LaNatra of Kingston, a petition (accompanied by
19	19	bill, House, No. 3790) of Kenneth P. Sweezey and Kathleen R. LaNatra relative to designating a
20	20	certain intersection in the town of Pembroke as the Lavina A. Hatch corner. Transportation.
21	21	[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
22	22	SEE HOUSE, NO. 3293 OF 2023-2024.]
23	23	The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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25	25	In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
26	26	(2025-2026)
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28	28	An Act designating a certain intersection in the town of Pembroke as the Lavina A. Hatch corner.
29	29	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
30	30	of the same, as follows:
31	31	1 The intersection of Congress Street and Washington Street, on Route 53 and Route 14, on
32	32	2the northwest corner of the intersection, at 749 Washington Street in the town of Pembroke, shall
33	33	3be designated and known as the Lavina A. Hatch Corner, in honor of Lavina A. Hatch, a
34	34	4founding member and secretary of the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts.
35	35	5 The Massachusetts Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain suitable
36	36	6markers bearing the designation in compliance with the standards of the department.
37	37	7 Lavina A. Hatch was born on May 20, 1836, in Pembroke, Massachusetts, and died on
38	38	8March 20, 1903, at the age of sixty-six. She was an animal rights activist, a suffragist, and an
39	39	9active volunteer in various organizations. She was a founding member and secretary of the 2 of 2
40	40	10National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts and kept records of the Boston Political
41	41	11Class, which was an auxiliary organization. She attended Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton,
42	42	12and received additional education at Hanover Academy in Hanover, and Partridge Academy in
43	43	13Duxbury. She was employed as a schoolmistress in the local towns, where she was remembered
44	44	14as a teacher who not only disapproved of corporal punishment but succeeded in controlling even
45	45	15the unruliest students. She gave up teaching to care for her brother's children at the death of their
46	46	16mother, later adopting her niece and nephew. Hatch also cared for an invalid mother at the family
47	47	17home and served as postmistress in East Pembroke in the early 1870s. Lavina Hatch was an
48	48	18advocate for women's rights during the late 19th century. She worked closely with Susan B.
49	49	19Anthony, a prominent American women's rights activist, on a chapter for the fourth volume of
50	50	20the History of Woman Suffrage. The two also collaborated on writing on the work of the
51	51	21Massachusetts National Association.