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H3808 • 2025

An Act relative to the enhancement of child safety

An Act relative to the enhancement of child safety

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Sponsor
Tommy Vitolo
Last action
2025-10-27
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 relative to the enhancement of child safety

An Act relative to the enhancement of child safety By Representative Vitolo of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to the enhancement of child safety By Representative Vitolo of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3808) of Tommy Vitolo relative to motor vehicle inspections of safety lights on ice cream trucks.
  • Transportation.
  • 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. 2025-10-27 House

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

  2. 2025-10-27 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2025-10-27 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  4. 2025-09-29 House

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

  5. 2025-07-10 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 07/22/2025 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-1

  6. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Transportation

  7. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to the enhancement of child safety
By Representative Vitolo of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3808) of Tommy Vitolo relative to motor vehicle inspections of safety lights on ice cream trucks. Transportation.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.3808

Section 16A of chapter 101 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following words:-

A violation of this paragraph shall be considered a civil motor vehicle infraction, and shall be punishable by a fine of $50 issued by any police officer with the authority to issue citations pursuant to chapter 90C.

An annual motor vehicle maintenance inspection pursuant to section 7A of chapter 90 for a motor vehicle used for selling frozen desserts pursuant to this section shall include an inspection of the flashing amber dome light and front and rear warning lights as required by this section; and a failure to have such operational lights shall result in a failed motor vehicle inspection.

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