HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3521 FILED ON: 1/14/2009
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1353
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
James H. Fagan
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:
An Act relative to the penalty for assault and battery upon school teachers.
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PETITION OF:
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Name:
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District/Address:
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James H. Fagan
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3rd Bristol
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[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 1395 OF 2007-2008.]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine
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An Act relative to the penalty for assault and battery upon school teachers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Chapter 265 of the Gener
al Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting, after section 13K, the following section:—
Section 13L. Whoever commits an assault and battery on a school teacher, teacher’s aide, faculty member, school administrator or
school staff member of a public or private elementary, vocational, secondary school, junior college, college or a university while said school teacher, teacher’s aide, faculty member, school administrator or school staff member is on or within the real pro
perty comprising a public or private elementary, vocational, secondary school, junior college, college or university whether or not in session shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than ninety days nor more than two and one-half years in a house o
f correction or by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, and a violator may be arrested without a warrant by any officer having police powers in the jurisdiction of the act.
