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MA S1629

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/27/2025

Primary Sponsor

Bruce Tarr

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Origin

Senate

194th General Court

AI Summary

  • Prohibits possessing, selling, offering for sale, transferring, or disposing of monuments, gravestones, markers, or memorial structures taken from cemeteries or burial grounds

  • Covers any portion or fragment of memorial items, not just whole pieces

  • Extends prohibition to cemetery infrastructure including fences, railings, gates, plot delineators, and curbs

  • Applies when a person knows or has reasonable cause to know the items were unlawfully removed

  • Filed January 17, 2025 by Senator Bruce E. Tarr (First Essex and Middlesex) with co-petitioner Jacob R. Oliveira; referred to Public Health Committee

Legislative Description

Relative to the theft of graves

Last Action

Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means

1/8/2026

Committee Referrals

Ways and Means1/8/2026
Public Health2/27/2025

Full Bill Text

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