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S2903 • 2025

An Act honoring Blue Star Families

An Act honoring Blue Star Families

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Sponsor
Ways and Means (S)
Last action
2026-07-13
Official status
Enacted and laid before the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act honoring Blue Star Families

An Act honoring Blue Star Families Senate, January 8, 2026 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the Senate Bill enhancing the safety of first responders (Senate, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act honoring Blue Star Families Senate, January 8, 2026 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the Senate Bill enhancing the safety of first responders (Senate, No.
  • 1719) (also based on Senate, No.
  • 2449),-- reported, in part, a "Bill honoring Blue Star Families" (Senate, No.
  • 2903).

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. 2026-07-13 Senate

    Rules suspended

  2. 2026-07-13 Senate

    Senate concurred in the House amendment with a further amendment

  3. 2026-07-13 House

    Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading

  4. 2026-07-13 House

    House concurred in the Senate further amendment

  5. 2026-07-13 House

    Enacted

  6. 2026-07-13 Senate

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

  7. 2026-05-20 House

    Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H5439 , and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  8. 2026-05-20 House

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

  9. 2026-05-20 House

    Rules suspended

  10. 2026-05-20 House

    Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)

  11. 2026-05-20 House

    Ordered to a third reading

  12. 2026-05-20 House

    Rules suspended

  13. 2026-05-20 House

    Read third

  14. 2026-05-20 House

    Passed to be engrossed - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 198 )

  15. 2026-01-22 House

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

  16. 2026-01-15 Senate

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  17. 2026-01-15 Senate

    Read third

  18. 2026-01-15 Senate

    Passed to be engrossed -- see Roll Call #128 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0)

  19. 2026-01-08 Senate

    Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means

  20. 2026-01-08 Senate

    Reported on a part of S1719

  21. 2026-01-08 Senate

    Committee recommended ought to pass

  22. 2026-01-08 Senate

    Also based on S2449

  23. 2026-01-08 Senate

    Order relative to subject matter adopted

  24. 2026-01-08 Senate

    Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 15, 2026

Official Summary Text

An Act honoring Blue Star Families
Senate, January 8, 2026 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the Senate Bill enhancing the safety of first responders (Senate, No. 1719) (also based on Senate, No. 2449),-- reported, in part, a "Bill honoring Blue Star Families" (Senate, No. 2903).

Current Bill Text

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Bill S.2903

Section 2 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2024 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

The registrar shall furnish, without charge, to owners of private passenger motor vehicles who are the parent, child or spouse of a law enforcement officer, as defined in section 1 of chapter 6E, who has been killed in the line of duty, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence to the registrar, a distinctive registration plate that reads “Blue Star Family” for 1 private passenger motor vehicle owned and principally used by such parent, child or spouse or a distinctive “Blue Star Family” emblem to be affixed to a registration plate for a motorcycle privately owned and principally used by such parent, child or spouse. The registrar may issue a distinctive “Blue Star Family” registration of up to 6 characters for 1 private passenger motor vehicle owned and principally used by such parent, child or spouse. A law enforcement officer shall be deemed to have been killed in the line of duty for purposes of this paragraph if their families are eligible for benefits under section 100A of chapter 32.

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