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H3188 • 2025

An Act providing for line-of-duty death benefits for firefighters

An Act providing for line-of-duty death benefits for firefighters

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Sponsor
Paul McMurtry
Last action
2025-11-03
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act providing for line-of-duty death benefits for firefighters

An Act providing for line-of-duty death benefits for firefighters By Representative McMurtry of Dedham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act providing for line-of-duty death benefits for firefighters By Representative McMurtry of Dedham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3188) of Paul McMurtry relative to property tax exemptions for real estate of survivors of certain police officer and firefighters who died in the line of duty.
  • Revenue.
  • Status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-03 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  2. 2025-11-03 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2025-11-03 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  4. 2025-10-06 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  5. 2025-06-17 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 06/24/2025 from 10:30 AM-01:00 PM in A-2

  6. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Revenue

  7. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act providing for line-of-duty death benefits for firefighters
By Representative McMurtry of Dedham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3188) of Paul McMurtry relative to property tax exemptions for real estate of survivors of certain police officer and firefighters who died in the line of duty. Revenue.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.3188

Section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “firefighter”, in lines 1468 and 1474, the following words:- who died in the line of duty or was.

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