Documents & Status: Text of Senate 1939

This bill would acknowledge that a driver of a motor vehicle who drives while they are sleep-deprived is just as impaired as the drug or alcohol impaired driver. Applications for motor vehicle licenses will include information on the consequences of driving while sleep-deprived, and public safety officers will receive education on identifying the sleep-deprived driver. Violators will be charged under the criminal statute to the same extent as  drug or alcohol-impaired drivers.

An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Highway Department to install certain signs

  Documents & Status: Text of Senate 1937

The bill requires the Massachusetts highway department to erect and maintain at exit 5 on Route I-395 in the town of Oxford certain signs directing motorists to the birthplace of Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross.

Documents & Status: Text of Senate 1754

This bill would fine pedestrians who are "jaywalking," offering a punishment of fifty dollars for the first offense, one hundred dollars for the second or third offense, and two hundred and fifty dollars for the fourth offense within a calendar year.

Documents & Status: Text of Senate 1938

This bill would address an increasing shortage in revenues collected from vehicles that are registered outside of the Commonwealth, but whose operators reside within the Commonwealth.  Currently, there is little enforcement of a fine or punishment for this action, and municipalities are given no incentive in seeking out those vehicles that are registered out of state.  S 1938 would address this by levying a $250 fine for first time offenders, who have had a vehicle registered out of state for a period exceeding 30 days from the point at which they have declared their residency.  Second time offenders would be levied a fine not exceeding $1,000.  To provide municipalities with incentive to enforce these laws, half of the revenue generated from these offenses would be retained by the community in which it is administered.  This bill also includes individuals who reside in a motor home within the Commonwealth; the fines shall likewise be levied for those persons who exceed the 30 day residency requirement.