SENATE, No. 2040

April 26, 2005

The committee on Bills in the Third Reading gives notice that they will move to recommend that the bill, Senate, No. 1393, be amended by substituting the following new text; relative to requiring special state police officers to collect certain data (Senate, No. 2040).

Stephen M. Brewer,
For the committee.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the Year Two Thousand and Five.

AN ACT REQUIRING SPECIAL STATE POLICE OFFICERS TO COLLECT CERTAIN DATA

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 2 of chapter 228 of the acts of 2000 is hereby amended by striking out the words “officers in” and inserting in place thereof the following words:-  officers, including special state police officers, in.

SECTION 2.  The first sentence of section 3 of said chapter 228 is hereby amended by inserting after the word “officers” the following words:-  , including special state police officers.

SECTION 3.  The first sentence of section 6 of said chapter 228 is hereby amended by striking out the words “and municipal” and inserting in place thereof the following words:-  , special state police officers, and municipal.

SECTION 4.  Section 10 of said chapter 228 is hereby amended by striking out the third sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:-  The executive office of public safety shall, in consultation with the attorney general, if such data suggest that a state police barracks or a municipal, college, university or other educational institution or hospital police department appears to have engaged in racial or gender profiling, require such barracks or department to collect information on all traffic stops for a period of 1 year, including those not resulting in a warning, citation or arrest.

SECTION 5.  The last sentence of said section 10 of said chapter 228 is hereby amended by striking out the words “or the municipality” and inserting in place thereof the following words:-  , the municipality, college, university or other educational institution or hospital.