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H4645 • 2025

An Act relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker

An Act relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Bills in the Third Reading (H)
Last action
2025-12-12
Official status
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 79 of the Acts of 2025
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker

An Act relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker

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Bill History

  1. 2025-12-12 Executive

    Signed by the Governor, Chapter 79 of the Acts of 2025

  2. 2025-11-24 House

    House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment

  3. 2025-11-24 Senate

    Rules suspended

  4. 2025-11-24 Senate

    Senate concurred in the House further amendment

  5. 2025-11-24 House

    Enacted

  6. 2025-11-24 Senate

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

  7. 2025-11-17 House

    Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading

  8. 2025-11-13 Senate

    Read second

  9. 2025-11-13 Senate

    Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2697

  10. 2025-11-13 Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  11. 2025-11-13 Senate

    Read third

  12. 2025-11-13 Senate

    Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #98 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0)

  13. 2025-11-06 Senate

    Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2697

  14. 2025-11-06 Senate

    Also based on S2531

  15. 2025-11-06 Senate

    Order relative to subject matter adopted

  16. 2025-11-06 Senate

    Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, November 13, 2025

  17. 2025-10-23 Senate

    Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means

  18. 2025-10-22 House

    Substituted for H1877

  19. 2025-10-22 House

    Passed to be engrossed - 160 YEAS to 0 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 93 )

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker

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Bill H.4645

Section 13D of chapter 265 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out the first paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-

Whoever commits an assault and battery, including assault and battery by means of a bodily substance, upon any public employee, including but not limited to a public transit worker, when such person is engaged in the performance of their duties at the time of such assault and battery, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than 90 days nor more than 2½ years in a

house of correction or by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000. For the purposes of this section, “bodily substance” shall mean any human secretion, discharge or emission including, but not limited to, blood, saliva, mucous, semen, urine or feces.

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