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H3815 • 2025

An Act providing for a red shield/blue shield license plate to survivors of firefighters and police officers who have died in the line of duty

An Act providing for a red shield/blue shield license plate to survivors of firefighters and police officers who have died in the line of duty

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Sponsor
Susannah M. Whipps
Last action
2025-09-29
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act providing for a red shield/blue shield license plate to survivors of firefighters and police officers who have died in the line of duty

An Act providing for a red shield/blue shield license plate to survivors of firefighters and police officers who have died in the line of duty By Representative Whipps of Athol, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act providing for a red shield/blue shield license plate to survivors of firefighters and police officers who have died in the line of duty By Representative Whipps of Athol, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3815) of Susannah M.
  • Whipps relative to providing for a red shield/blue shield license plate to survivors of firefighters and police officers who died in the line of duty.
  • Transportation.

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. 2025-09-29 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

  2. 2025-07-10 Joint

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

  3. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Transportation

  4. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act providing for a red shield/blue shield license plate to survivors of firefighters and police officers who have died in the line of duty
By Representative Whipps of Athol, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3815) of Susannah M. Whipps relative to providing for a red shield/blue shield license plate to survivors of firefighters and police officers who died in the line of duty. Transportation.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.3815

Section 2 of Chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2014 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph twenty, the following paragraph:-

The registrar shall furnish without charge to the owner of a private passenger motor vehicle who is a parent, child, sibling, grandchild or spouse of a paid professional firefighter or call firefighter or police officer or reserve police officer who has died in the line-of-duty, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence of such status as determined by the registrar, a distinctive license plate bearing a design approved by the Registrar.

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