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H3810 • 2025

An Act relative to loading and alighting vehicles from car carriers on public ways

An Act relative to loading and alighting vehicles from car carriers on public ways

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Sponsor
Walsh, Thomas P.
Last action
2025-10-27
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act relative to loading and alighting vehicles from car carriers on public ways

An Act relative to loading and alighting vehicles from car carriers on public ways By Representative Walsh of Peabody and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to loading and alighting vehicles from car carriers on public ways By Representative Walsh of Peabody and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3810) of Thomas P.
  • Walsh relative to loading and alighting vehicles from car carriers on public ways.
  • Transportation.

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  • 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 loading and alighting vehicles from car carriers on public ways
By Representative Walsh of Peabody and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3810) of Thomas P. Walsh relative to loading and alighting vehicles from car carriers on public ways. Transportation.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill H.3810

Chapter 90, Section 22b subsection (a) of the Massachusetts General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 official edition, is hereby amended by adding the following subsection at the end thereof:

No “low-boy automobile transporter” or “automobile transporter”, as defined by Massachusetts General Law, section 1 of Chapter 90, shall load or alight any motor vehicles for delivery or transport to a dealer, as defined by section 1 of chapter 90, on any public way in the commonwealth.

A violation of this section shall be cause for revocation of the common carrier permit issued under chapter 159b section 4 and certificates authorizing operations of common carriers issued under chapter 159b section 3 and the operator subject to penalties subject to section 22b subsection A of chapter 90.

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