Massachusetts General Court· S1246Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means

An Act to add sex and gender as protected classes for crime prosecutions, the official text

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	Section 39 of chapter 265 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended in subsection (a) by inserting in line 4, after the words “national origin” the following words:- , sex, gender.

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