H2901 • 2025

An Act providing fair and equitable line of duty death benefits for public employees

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Sponsor: Jay D. Livingstone
Last action: 2025-09-08
Official status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act providing fair and equitable line of duty death benefits for public employees

An Act providing fair and equitable line of duty death benefits for public employees By Representative Livingstone of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act providing fair and equitable line of duty death benefits for public employees By Representative Livingstone of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
2901) of Jay D.
Livingstone relative to line of duty death benefits for public employees.
Public Service.

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Bill History

2025-09-08 House
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2025-05-22 Joint
Hearing scheduled for 05/28/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in A-2
2025-02-27 House
Referred to the committee on Public Service
2025-02-27 Senate
Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act providing fair and equitable line of duty death benefits for public employees
By Representative Livingstone of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2901) of Jay D. Livingstone relative to line of duty death benefits for public employees. Public Service.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill H.2901

Section 100A of Chapter 32 is hereby amended by striking subsection (c) in its entirety and replacing it with the following:

(c) The killed in the line of duty benefit shall be a 1-time payment of $300,000 to the family of a deceased public employee. As used in this section deceased public employee shall mean any public employee working for state or county government, a Massachusetts public higher education institution, a municipality, public school department, or public school district or public authority who, while in the performance of his/her duties and as a result of incident, accident or violence, was killed or sustained injuries which were the direct and proximate cause of his/her death.

Section 100A of Chapter 32 is further amended in subsection (d) by replacing each occurrence of the words “public safety employee” in this subsection with the words “public employee”

Section 16 of Chapter 15A is hereby amended by inserting after the word "corrections officer" the following words: - any public employee working for state or county government, a Massachusetts public higher education institution, a municipality, public school department, or public school district or public authority

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