Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 221, sec. 42A — MA Code / Part III / Title I / Chapter 221 / Section 42A
Removal or discipline for legal representation related to reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services
Status: in_force

[ Text of section added by 2025, 16, Sec. 24 effective November 5, 2025.] Section 42A. Notwithstanding any general or special law or rule or regulation to the contrary, no attorney licensed in the commonwealth shall be removed or otherwise subject to discipline, including through the revocation, suspension or cancellation of the attorney's license or reprimand, censure or monetary fine, for advising or representing a client or prospective client on or in a matter related to the provision of reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services, as those terms are defined in section 11 I 1/2 of chapter 12, if the sole basis for such removal or discipline is that: (i) the client offered, provided or received reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services that are unlawful in another state; (ii) another state's laws create actual or potential liability for the reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services offered, provided or received by the client; or (iii) the attorney is subject to actual or potential liability, or removal or discipline, in another jurisdiction based on the reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services offered, provided or received by the client; provided, however, that the attorney's conduct shall otherwise comply with the laws of the commonwealth and meet the standards set forth in the rules of professional conduct promulgated by the supreme judicial court.

[ Text of section added by 2025, 16, Sec. 24 effective November 5, 2025.]

Section 42A. Notwithstanding any general or special law or rule or regulation to the contrary, no attorney licensed in the commonwealth shall be removed or otherwise subject to discipline, including through the revocation, suspension or cancellation of the attorney's license or reprimand, censure or monetary fine, for advising or representing a client or prospective client on or in a matter related to the provision of reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services, as those terms are defined in section 11 I 1/2 of chapter 12, if the sole basis for such removal or discipline is that: (i) the client offered, provided or received reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services that are unlawful in another state; (ii) another state's laws create actual or potential liability for the reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services offered, provided or received by the client; or (iii) the attorney is subject to actual or potential liability, or removal or discipline, in another jurisdiction based on the reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services offered, provided or received by the client; provided, however, that the attorney's conduct shall otherwise comply with the laws of the commonwealth and meet the standards set forth in the rules of professional conduct promulgated by the supreme judicial court.