Bill Text: MA H1499 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced
Bill Title: Include animals in abuse prevention orders
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-20 - Public Hearing date 7/14 at 12:00 AM in Gardner Auditorium [H1499 Detail]
Download: Massachusetts-2009-H1499-Introduced.html
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Peter J. Koutoujian, Katherine Clark
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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 to Include Animals in Abuse Prevention Orders.
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PETITION OF:
Name: |
District/Address: |
Peter J. Koutoujian |
10th Middlesex |
Katherine Clark |
32nd Middlesex |
Martha M. Walz |
8th Suffolk |
John P. Fresolo |
16th Worcester |
Christine E. Canavan |
10th Plymouth |
Walter F. Timilty |
7th Norfolk |
Robert L. Hedlund |
Plymouth and Norfolk |
Bill Bowles |
2nd Bristol |
Richard T. Moore |
Worcester and Norfolk |
Scott P. Brown |
Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex |
Elizabeth A. Malia |
11th Suffolk |
Michael Brady |
9th Plymouth |
Steven J. D'Amico |
4th Bristol |
Lori Ehrlich |
8th Essex |
James B. Eldridge |
Middlesex and Worcester |
Bruce J. Ayers |
1st Norfolk |
Kenneth J. Donnelly |
Fourth Middlesex |
John W. Scibak |
2nd Hampshire |
Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. |
26th Middlesex |
Jennifer M. Callahan |
18th Worcester |
Denise Provost |
27th Middlesex |
Denis E. Guyer |
2nd Berkshire |
Colleen M. Garry |
36th Middlesex |
Bruce E. Tarr |
First Essex and Middlesex |
Anthony D. Galluccio |
Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex |
Kevin G. Honan |
17th Suffolk |
Anthony W. Petruccelli |
First Suffolk and Middlesex |
Ann-Margaret Ferrante |
5th Essex |
Paul McMurtry |
11th Norfolk |
Carl M. Sciortino, Jr. |
34th Middlesex |
Robert J. Nyman |
5th Plymouth |
Kathi-Anne Reinstein |
16th Suffolk |
Anthony D. Galluccio |
Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex |
Alice Hanlon Peisch |
14th Norfolk |
Kathi-Anne Reinstein |
16th Suffolk |
Cory Atkins |
14th Middlesex |
Marc R. Pacheco |
First Plymouth and Bristol |
Geraldo Alicea |
6th Worcester |
The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine
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An Act to Include Animals in Abuse Prevention Orders.
Be
it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 3 of Chapter 209A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “minor” in line 6 the following words:-
; ordering the possession, care and control of any animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by either party or a minor child residing in the household to the plaintiff. The court may order the defendant to refrain from abusing, threatening, taking, interfering with, transferring, encumbering, concealing, harming, or otherwise disposing of the animal;