HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3057 FILED ON: 2/18/2021 HOUSE ...... No. 3509

The Commonwealth of ______

PRESENTED BY:

Bradley H. Jones, Jr. and Richard M. Haggerty ______

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 adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act establishing a distinctive registration plate for Medal of Liberty recipients. ______

PETITION OF:

NAME: DISTRICT/ADDRESS: DATE ADDED: Bradley H. Jones, Jr. 20th Middlesex 2/9/2021 Richard M. Haggerty 30th Middlesex 2/22/2021 Jason M. Lewis Fifth Middlesex 2/23/2021 Angelo L. D'Emilia 8th Plymouth 2/25/2021 11th Bristol 2/25/2021 Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. 5th Worcester 2/26/2021 Shawn Dooley 9th Norfolk 2/26/2021 Mathew J. Muratore 1st Plymouth 2/26/2021 Smitty Pignatelli 4th Berkshire 2/26/2021 F. Jay Barrows 1st Bristol 2/26/2021 Joseph D. McKenna 18th Worcester 2/26/2021 Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. 12th Hampden 2/26/2021 2nd Plymouth 2/26/2021 4th Essex 2/26/2021 Marc T. Lombardo 22nd Middlesex 2/26/2021 Alyson M. Sullivan 7th Plymouth 2/26/2021 Kimberly N. Ferguson 1st Worcester 2/26/2021 David K. Muradian, Jr. 9th Worcester 2/26/2021

1 of 2 Steven G. Xiarhos 5th Barnstable 2/26/2021 Brian W. Murray 10th Worcester 2/26/2021 Carlos González 10th Hampden 2/26/2021 11th Worcester 3/2/2021 33rd Middlesex 3/5/2021 Kate Lipper-Garabedian 32nd Middlesex 3/11/2021 Steven S. Howitt 4th Bristol 4/7/2021

2 of 2 HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3057 FILED ON: 2/18/2021 HOUSE ...... No. 3509 By Messrs. Jones of North Reading and Haggerty of Woburn, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3509) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., Richard M. Haggerty and others for legislation to authorize the Registry of Motor Vehicles to issue distinctive registration plates for Medal of Liberty recipients. Transportation.

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION SEE HOUSE, NO. 4359 OF 2019-2020.]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

______In the One Hundred and Ninety-Second General Court (2021-2022) ______

An Act establishing a distinctive registration plate for Medal of Liberty recipients.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2018

2 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after line 598 the following new paragraph:-

3 The registrar shall furnish without charge to owners of private passenger motor vehicles

4 who have been awarded the Massachusetts Medal of Liberty, as defined in section 67A of

5 chapter 33, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence of such status as determined by the

6 registrar, distinctive registration plates for one private passenger motor vehicle owned and

7 principally used by such recipient, bearing on the left side an image of the medal and ribbon and

8 bearing the words “MEDAL OF LIBERTY” along the bottom.

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