H.205723 House & Senate co-sponsors
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PLATFORM: Page 21 clause 23: PUBLIC SAFETY: The elimination of qualified immunity protections for police officers to ensure that victims of police brutality have their fair day in court.
BILL: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2057/Cosponsor
Bill H.2057
194th (Current)
SECTION ONE. Chapter 271 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section:-
Section 52. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:-
"First responder", shall include any law enforcement officer, a paid, call, reserve or volunteer firefighter, a paid, call, reserve or volunteer emergency medical technician, or any other person whose usual and regular duties include rendering assistance at the scene of a crime, accident or other emergency.
"Harass", means to willfully engage in a course of conduct directed at a first responder which intentionally causes substantial emotional distress in that first responder and serves no legitimate purpose.
(b) No person, after receiving a verbal warning not to approach from a person he or she knows or reasonably should know is a first responder and who is engaged in the lawful performance of a legal duty, shall knowingly and willfully violate such warning and approach or remain within 25 feet of the first responder with the intent to impede or interfere with the first responder’s ability to perform such duty, threaten the first responder with physical harm, or harass the first responder.
(c) Any violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 for the first offense, and for each and every subsequent offense, by a fine or not more than $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
Name District/Address
Presenters:Steven George Xiarhos , Richard G. Wells, Jr.
Petitioners: Name District/Address
Steven George Xiarhos 5th Barnstable
Steven J. Ouellette 8th Bristol
Ryan C. Fattman Worcester and Hampden
Marc T. Lombardo 22nd Middlesex
Joseph D. McKenna 18th Worcester
Michael J. Soter 8th Worcester
Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. 5th Worcester
John J. Marsi 6th Worcester
Kelly W. Pease 4th Hampden
Kenneth P. Sweezey 6th Plymouth
Michael O. Moore Second Worcester
Hannah Kane 11th Worcester
Bruce E. Tarr First Essex and Middlesex
Donald H. Wong 9th Essex
Steven S. Howitt 4th Bristol
Marcus S. Vaughn 9th Norfolk
Margaret R. Scarsdale 1st Middlesex
Kelly A. Dooner Third Bristol and Plymouth
Patrick M. O'Connor First Plymouth and Norfolk
James C. Arena-DeRosa 8th Middlesex
Justin Thurber 5th Bristol