187th General Court

Text of amendment (156) offered by Ms. Jehlen to the pending Senate Ways and Means amendment (Senate, No. 2260) to the House Bill improving the quality of health care and controlling costs by reforming health systems and payments

Text of amendment (188) offered by Mr. Tarr to the pending Senate Ways and Means amendment (Senate, No. 2260) to the House Bill improving the quality of health care and controlling costs by reforming health systems and payments

Text of the further Senate amendment (Senator Downing) to the Senate Bill relative to the emergency service response of public utility companies (Senate. No. 2143)

Sponsor: Benjamin Downing

Text of amendment (57) offered by Mr. Hart to the pending Senate Ways and Means amendment (Senate, No. 2260) to the House Bill improving the quality of health care and controlling costs by reforming health systems and payments

Relative to the town of Swansea Volunteer Fire Department

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Revenue

Relative to tiered and selective network health plans

Relative to the Regional Wastewater District Enabling Act for the towns of Mansfield, Foxborough and Norton

Sponsor: Fred Barrows

Promoting health through workplace safety for social workers

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Establishing a sick leave bank for Sarah Bok, an employee of the Trial Court

Sponsor: Daniel Wolf

Relative to background checks

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Establishing a Five-Member Board of Health in the city of Methuen

Sponsor: Linda Campbell

Relative to the Town of Dartmouth Fire District No. 1

Sponsor: Christopher Markey

Exempting certain positions in the town of Milton from the civil service law

Sponsor: Brian Joyce

Designating a certain bridge in the town of Newbury as the John B. Hayden bridge

Sponsor: Harriett Stanley

To protect public water supply lands

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Further regulating certain reimbursements by the city of Medford to the Water Enterprise Fund

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

Further regulating dam safety, repair and removal

Protecting lakes and ponds from aquatic nuisances.

Establishing a building maintenance fund in the town of Northbridge

Sponsor: George Peterson

Relative to the Cotuit Fire District.

Sponsor: David Vieira

Authorizing the Town of North Andover To Grant An Additional License For the Sale of All Alcoholic Beverages Not To Be Drunk on the Premises

Sponsor: David Torrisi

Providing retirement benefits for an employee of western Massachusetts communities.

Sponsor: Peter Kocot

Amending the charter of the city known as the town of Greenfield to establish a mayor’s task force against domestic violence

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Making certain technical corrections in the charter of the city known as the town of Greenfield relative to school committee officers

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Designating that portion of Route 9 from the city of Northampton to the city of Pittsfield as the marine corps league highway

Sponsor: Paul Mark

Relative to annual immunization against influenza for children

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Amending the charter of the city known as the town of Greenfield to further regulate the interdepartmental transfer of funds

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Relative to access to epinephrine in schools

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Amending the charter of the city known as the town of Greenfield to make a certain technical correction

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Providing for the licensing of applied behavior analysts

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Providing for a definition of intellectual disability consistent with the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Making a certain techinical correction to the charter of the city known as the town of Greenfield

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Authorizing certain tax revenue in the town of Wareham to be used for capital improvements

Sponsor: Susan Gifford

Making certain amendments to the charter of the town of Abington

Sponsor: Geoff Diehl

RELATIVE TO HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS IN THE CITY OF LAWRENCE

Sponsor: Marcos Devers

Exempting the position of Chief of Police of the Town of West Springfield from the provisions of the Civil Service Law

Sponsor: Michael Finn

Relative to the town charter in the town of North Andover

Sponsor: David Torrisi

Relative to financial services contracts for dental benefits corporations

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Relative to housing rights for victims of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault and stalking

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Establishing a sick leave bank for Yolanda Marrero, an employee of the Trial Court.

Sponsor: Michael Moore

Authorizing the town of Milton to borrow money for the payment of certain medical expenses

Sponsor: Walter Timilty

Designating a portion of Route 8 in the Town of Hinsdale as the Pvt. Henry T. Johns Memorial Highway

Sponsor: Benjamin Downing

Amending the town charter of Oxford

Sponsor: Paul Frost

Authorizing the town of Westwood to grant special licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages and wines and malt beverages

Sponsor: Paul McMurtry

RELATIVE TO THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE TOWN OF RICHMOND

Sponsor: William Pignatelli

To include call/volunteer firefighters on the Fire Service Commission.

Sponsor: Stephen Brewer

Further regulating the sale of alcoholic beverages in the city of Somerville.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Relative to municipal acceptance of roads within a subdivision in the town of Medway

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

Establishing a sick leave bank for Donald Mahoney, an employee of the Department of Correction

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

To Exempt the Position of Deputy Police Chief of the Town of Westwood

Sponsor: Paul McMurtry

Relative to fees for the use of State House facilities

Sponsor: Jay Kaufman

Relative to protective headgear for soccer players

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Relative to housing rights for victims of domestic violence

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Housing

Concening tunnel safety

Sponsor: Aaron Michlewitz

Massachusetts Housing Authority

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Investigation and study of certain House documents

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government

Relative to cost of living adjustments for retired public employees of the Commonwealth

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to the state highway route 116 scenic byway

Sponsor: Benjamin Downing

Increasing the retirement allowance to former police officer Michael Marchese of the city of Everett

Sponsor: Stephen Smith

Oceans, fisheries, water quality and other water issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Expanding the powers of the director of Fisheries and Wildlife

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Authorizing Vintage Grand Prix Auto Racing in the City of Springfield

Sponsor: Benjamin Swan

Study Order

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Relative to court ordered hospitalizations

Sponsor: Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Relative to safe and supportive schools

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Returning the payment of bonuses to soldiers during the Persian Gulf War to the Treasurer's office

Sponsor: Chris Walsh

Allowing citizens 17 years or older to vote in the city of Lowell municipal elections

Sponsor: Kevin Murphy

Promoting accessible housing for persons with disabilities.

Sponsor: Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets

To ensure fire safety in state buildings

Sponsor: Ruth Balser

Relative to the use of shotguns

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Education study relative to charter schools

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Judiciary issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Relative to public school facilities

Sponsor: Martha Walz

Relative to LGBT awareness training for aging services providers

Sponsor: Elizabeth Malia

Resolve relative to protecting the archaeological, geological and fossil resources of western Massachusetts

Sponsor: Peter Kocot

Relative to geography education

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to job creation through employee ownership

Sponsor: Paul Mark

Relative to the reporting of the abuse of mentally retarded persons

Sponsor: Thomas Stanley

To provide further transparency in public construction

Sponsor: James Arciero

Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to the impact of undocumented aliens residing in the commonwealth

Sponsor: John Fernandes

Exempting towns from certain fees

Sponsor: Cleon Turner

Relative to energy efficiency in affordable housing

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

Education Committee Study

Sponsor: Committee on Education

RELATIVE TO CREDITABLE SERVICE FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE COMMONWEALTH

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

To authorize the Department of Food and Agriculture to expend a certain sum of money for integrated pest management and control of invasive plants

Sponsor: William Straus

For the Humanitarian Medical Use of Marijuana

Relative to special education

Sponsor: Kevin Murphy

Relative to the efficiency of subsidized housing procedures

Sponsor: Carl Sciortino

Making appropriations for the fiscal year 2011 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects

Relative to the North Shore Community College Assistance Corporation

Sponsor: Robert Fennell

Resolve creating a study into the promotion of a year of service by young people in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Harold Naughton

Labor and Workforce Development

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

Relative to the officers of the court

Labor and Workforce Development

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

Environmental health, physical health, health-related research, health care financing, health-related professions, public health facilities, and other matters concerning the public health

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Health

Cosmetology

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Establishing a middle-skills council and the creation of regional skills academies in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

Relative to improving handicapped accessibility

Sponsor: Cheryl Coakley-Rivera

Excluding payments for foster care in computing rent and determining eligibility for subsidized housing

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

To establish the uniform enforcement of foreign judgments

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Authorizing the committee on financial services to study certain documents relative to property and liability insurace

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Relative to the tuition of children under the control of the Department Transitional Assistance living in family shelters.

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to the relocation of Harris Park in the City of Somerville

Sponsor: Timothy Toomey

Relative to certain employees of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

Relative to the judicial advisory board

Sponsor: Randy Hunt

Making the deposit of public monies uniform

Sponsor: Thomas Golden

Public Safety

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Regarding education requirements for class 2 motor vehicle licensees

Sponsor: Paul McMurtry

Relative to the State House art commission and State House architect

Sponsor: Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development

Relative to municipal use of insurance proceeds

Sponsor: James Cantwell

Relative to interest on retainage

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

Relative to the investment of other post employment benefits trust funds established by municipalities and certain other governmental units

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to Gold Star Family vanity registration plates

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ethics and Rules

Relative to a special education services for low incidence populations

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Relative to planning boards' approval of subdivision plans.

Sponsor: James Cantwell

Relative to the concealment of the death of children and the penalties for the sale or purchase of minor children

Sponsor: Colleen Garry

Valuing our natural resources

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Mental health and substance abuse issues

Sponsor: Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Relative to reckless endangerment of persons with disabilities

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Establishing a sick leave bank for Kristen Robinson, an employee of the Department of Correction

Sponsor: John Fernandes

Relative to the financial support of foster childen

Sponsor: Paul Donato

REPEALING AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF MILTON TO GRANT A LICENSE FOR THE SALE OF ALL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES TO BE DRUNK ON THE PREMISES OF A CERTAIN RESTAURANT

Amending the conservation restrictions and agricultural preservation statutes.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Study relative to Chapter 40B housing

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Housing

Relative to global positioning system technology and public employees

Sponsor: Tackey Chan

Relative to improving accountability and oversight of education collaboratives

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Designating veterans status on driver’s licenses and identification cards

Sponsor: Robert Koczera

Relative to the flying of the flag of the Commonwealth at half staff on state buildings and installations

Sponsor: Walter Timilty

RELATIVE TO A FORM OF GOVERNANCE FOR THE BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

Authorizing the committee on financial sevices to study certain documents related to health care insurance and insurance coverage

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Cultural Funding

Sponsor: Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development

Resolve providing for a special commission to identify, preserve and commemorate historic roadways

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ethics and Rules

Relative to certain county elections for certain vacancies.

Sponsor: William Straus

Relative to veterans license plates

Sponsor: Angelo Scaccia

Labor and Workforce Development

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

For passage to independence

Sponsor: James O'Day

The mandated reporter definition

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities

Making uniform the law regarding trade secrets

Sponsor: Eugene O'Flaherty

Cooperative housing in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Housing

Relative to the health care of minors

Sponsor: Elizabeth Malia

AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORFOLK TO GRANT AN ADDITIONAL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE FOR THE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES NOT TO BE DRUNK ON PREMISES

Sponsor: Daniel Winslow

Relative to utility service call centers

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Relative to the disclosure of autopsy reports

Sponsor: Peter Durant

To enhance the quality of security services on state property

Sponsor: Martin Walsh

To provide a safe workplace for employees of the Commonwealth

Sponsor: John Fresolo

Financing Improvements to the Commonwealth's Transportation System

Relative to soliciting and rewarding suggestions from residents to reduce costs of government

Sponsor: Daniel Winslow

Designating the month of May as Blue Star Mothers Month

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

Supporting Municipal Fiscal Stability through a Special Education Stabilization Fund

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government

Establishing a bill of rights for children who are deaf or hard of hearing

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Addressing inequities in property tax assessments

Sponsor: Chris Walsh

Relative to railroad crossings

Sponsor: Joseph Wagner

Relative to condominium sanitary code enforcement

Sponsor: Jeffrey Sanchez

The raising of revenue for the Commonwealth by means of taxation, certain matters relating to the local property tax and such similar matters as have been referred to said committee

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Revenue

Making investments in youth employment and educational pathways

Sponsor: Salvatore DiDomenico

Relative to the transportation of individuals seated in wheelchairs

Sponsor: Stephen Canessa

Relative to the transporting of deceased persons

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Relative to the MCAS appeals process.

Sponsor: Frank Smizik

To Protect Motor Vehicle Owners and Small Businesses in Repairing Motor Vehicles

Authorizing and directing the Division of Waterways to dredge the harbor area surrounding the Squantum Yacht Club and Wollaston Yacht Club in Quincy

Sponsor: Bruce Ayers

Relative to the Massachusetts Credit Union Share Insurance Corporation

Sponsor: James Murphy

Relative to the closure of certain DDS facilities

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities

Concerning fair retainage payments in private construction

Sponsor: Kevin Murphy

Relative to patient safety

Sponsor: Christine Canavan

AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF GROTON, ACTING BY AND THROUGH ITS BOARD OF SELECTMEN AND BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS, TO CONVEY A CONSERVATION RESTRICTION ON CERTAIN PARCELS OF LAND TO THE DIVISION OF FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE BY ITS DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME

Sponsor: Sheila Harrington

Providing taxpayers a hearing at the Appellate Tax Board

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Revenue

Establishing six-year career plans for all Massachusetts public school students

Relative to commercial rebate expiration

Sponsor: Carl Sciortino

Relative to the Connecticut River rowing facility.

Sponsor: Peter Kocot

Relative to organ retention

Sponsor: Martin Walsh

To promote healthy people and a healthy economy in Massachusetts

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Relative to nonviolent discipline

Sponsor: Viriato deMacedo

Relative to the enhanced disposition of surplus motor vehicles owned by the commonwealth or authorities established by the state.

Sponsor: Bruce Ayers

Judiciary House Study Order

Sponsor: Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Relative to motorcycle inspections

Sponsor: William Galvin

Education Committee Study

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Relative to the treatment of mentally ill in prisons

Sponsor: Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Establishing uniform wage compliance and record keeping and extending the statute of limitations on civil and criminal actions alleging a violation of the fair wage and hours law

Sponsor: James Eldridge

House Bill Study Order

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Resolve establishing the Massachusetts commission on advanced practice nursing

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

To exempt the weight of idle reduction systems for commercial vehicles from maximum weight restrictions

Sponsor: Theodore Speliotis

Relative to non-public school student access to the MCAS exam.

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission (including members of the General Court) relative to creating and expanding access to opportunity in low-opportunity communities

Sponsor: Jay Kaufman

Pertaining to violations of the Department of Early Education and Care advertising law

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Relative to the moose population in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

To promote purchasing from social enterprises by governmental bodies

Sponsor: Linda Forry

Relative to requiring a civil service exam in the Department of Transitional Assistance

Sponsor: Thomas Golden

Message from His Excellency the Governor submitting the annual budget of the Commonwealth for the fiscal year beginning July first, two thousand eleven

Further regulating workers' compensation

Sponsor: Tom Sannicandro

Education Study relative to school funding

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Authorizing the Town of Wendell to Provide for Alternative Energy and Sanitation Systems

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Making Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2012 to Provide for Supplementing Certain Existing Appropriations and for Certain Other Activities and Projects

Relative to medical examinations for life insurance policies

Sponsor: Stephen Brewer

To reform sheriff civil process operations

Sponsor: Joint Committee on the Judiciary

RESOLUTIONS PROVIDING FOR A DECLARATION OF THE INTENT OF THE SENATE RELATIVE TO THE AMOUNT AND DISTRIBUTION OF LOCAL AID TO THE COMMONWEALTH’S CITIES, TOWNS AND REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012; PROVIDED, FURTHER THAT TIMELY NOTICE TO CITIES, TOWNS AND REGIONAL SCHOOLS DISTRICTS RELATIVE TO THE AMOUNTS OF SCHOOL AND UNRESTRICTED GENERAL GOVERNMENT AID DISTRIBUTIONS IS ESSENTIAL FOR AN ORDERLY AND RATIONAL BUDGET PROCESS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

Relative to the minimum pension for retirees

Sponsor: Jay Kaufman

Relative to independent contractors

Sponsor: Martha Walz

Telecommunications

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

To protect the natural resources of the Commonwealth

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Further promoting energy efficiency and green jobs

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Requiring the timely adoption of greenhouse gas emission limits for the year 2030

Sponsor: William Brownsberger

Relative to defense against abusive waivers act

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to the retirement benefits of certain employees of Department of Children and Families

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Providing that the USS Massachusetts War Memorial at Battleship Cove be updated to include the Afghanistan and Third Persian Gulf wars

Sponsor: Kevin Aguiar

Relative to the local mandate law

Authorizing employees of the Inspector General’s office to participate in representative town meeting

Relative to dropout prevention

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Relative to automatic sprinklers

Sponsor: John Fresolo

Women in the criminal justice system

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities

Establishing a Mystic River water quality commission

Sponsor: Denise Provost

Exempting towed campers from commercial license plates.

Sponsor: Todd Smola

Relative to Chapter 32, Section 91a waivers

Sponsor: Bills in the Third Reading

Education Study relative to civil rights

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Establishing a regional lockup facility in Suffolk County

Sponsor: Eugene O'Flaherty

Relative to overtime for garagemen

Sponsor: John Binienda

Facilitating the development of underutilized properties formerly operated by the department of mental health or the department of mental retardation for supported housing for people deemed eligible for services by the department of mental health or the department of mental retardation

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Authorizing the board of commissioners of the Franklin County Regional Housing and Redevelopment Authority to offer a limited early retirement incentive

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to auto body labor rates

Sponsor: Geraldo Alicea

Relative to manufactured buildings

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

To improve access to the services of educational psychologists

Sponsor: John Rogers

RELATIVE TO MANSLAUGHTER.

Sponsor: Eugene O'Flaherty

Further regulating the issuance of firearms identification

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Education Study relative to school personnel

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Relative to survivor allowance

Sponsor: Michael Moran

RESOLVE providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to reducing the costs associated with the purchase of college textbooks

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Higher Education

The public health

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Health

Revising certain provisions of the mutual holdings company law

Sponsor: David Nangle

Relative to development of local housing authority surplus land

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

Resolve providing for a study by the Executive Office of Health and Human Services relative to nonprofit group homes

Sponsor: Thomas Stanley

Relative to the Architectual Access Board

Sponsor: Cheryl Coakley-Rivera

Promoting responsible investment and the prevention of genocide

Sponsor: Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

Creating smoke free elderly housing units in the commonwealth

Sponsor: Theodore Speliotis

Relative to security of name changes and requests

Sponsor: Cheryl Coakley-Rivera

Relative to licensing massage therapists

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Providing for opportunities for single-sex schools and classes.

Sponsor: Carlo Basile

Regarding drivers license information

Sponsor: James Murphy

Relative to the inspection of certain motor vehicles

Sponsor: Bradford Hill

To insure benefits through enhanced Selective Service registration

Sponsor: Geoff Diehl

RELATIVE TO THE SELECTION OF RETIREMENT OPTIONS

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

To establish a lupus erythematosus study and registry

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Relative to a Special Commission to Study Condominium Law.

Sponsor: Matthew Beaton

To preserve public water supply in Assawompset Ponds Complex communities

Sponsor: William Straus

Relative to the penalty for failure to timely report injuries under the workers' compensation act

Sponsor: David Torrisi

To promote healthy people and a healthy economy in Massachusetts

Sponsor: Gloria Fox

Relative to removing barriers for non-profit organizations providing transportation options to seniors

Sponsor: Ronald Mariano

Relative to the town of Chatham conservation commission and land within the town of Harwich

Sponsor: Sarah Peake

Relative to school served food products

Sponsor: James Miceli

Providing for a labor/management workplace and education trust fund at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

To Clarify Penalties for Violations Occurring While Driving with a Hardship License

Sponsor: David Linsky

Providing for the public disclosure of quality indicators for persons with developmental disabilities

Sponsor: Kay Khan

To provide access to scientific and forensic analysis

Sponsor: John Fernandes

Protecting the city of Revere's vehicular rental surcharge from the opening of the consolidated rental car facility at Logan International Airport

Sponsor: Kathi-Anne Reinstein

Relative to continuing education of insurance producers

Sponsor: Ronald Mariano

To prevent homelessness among recipients of transitional assistance

Sponsor: Denise Provost

To protect farm viability

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Relative to health insurance in the city of Methuen

Sponsor: Linda Campbell

To encourage responsibility, cost effectiveness and meaningful lives for individuals with disabilities

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Relative to the operating of student pupil transportation

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Study Order

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Establishing an education loan repayment program for social workers in areas of need and certain direct care human services workers

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Higher Education

Study Order 5-11-12

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Revenue

Relative to regulating the practice of human body piercing

Sponsor: Bruce Ayers

Authorizing the town of Milton to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises of a certain restaurant

Sponsor: Brian Joyce

Relative to scrap metal dealers

Sponsor: Stephen DiNatale

Exempting owners from providing an indemnity for certain lost or stolen registered bonds

Sponsor: Frank Smizik

Relative to providing a high impact program for long-term economic success

Sponsor: Gloria Fox

To regulate coal ash as solid waste

Sponsor: Lori Ehrlich

Relative to process piping

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to greenhouse gases and arbor damage

Sponsor: Lori Ehrlich

Health insurance mandates

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business - Bills for Study 3.21.12

Sponsor: Committee on Community Development and Small Business

Labor and Workforce Development

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

Relative to the collection of personal property taxes

Sponsor: Thomas Conroy

Relative to promoting local housing initiatives for economically diverse households

Sponsor: Carl Sciortino

To limit retroactive denials of health insurance claims

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Study Order 6-27-12

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Revenue

Issues concerning children, families and persons with disabilities

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities

Regarding an analysis of health education in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Committee on Education

To reduce healthcare costs by promoting provider education through academic detailing

Sponsor: Jason Lewis

Study Order

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Relative to notice to a child’s and parent’s counsel

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Relative to confidentiality of examination reports of the Division of Banks

Sponsor: Peter Koutoujian

Relative to the lawful use of shotguns

Sponsor: Kate Hogan

Relative to the authority of police officers of the city of Boston and the town of Dedham

Sponsor: Angelo Scaccia

To create jobs by increasing disposable income in the state economy

Sponsor: Daniel Winslow

Restricting use and connection of automatic dialing-announcing devices

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to adolescents at risk

Sponsor: Colleen Garry

Granting creditable service to employees of the Dedham Westwood water district

Sponsor: Paul McMurtry

Relative to cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification for athletic coaches

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Futher regulating the continuing education requirements for certain real estate appraisers and trainees.

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to the distribution of raw milk

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Relative to the anti-arson application for dwelling policies

Sponsor: John Fresolo

To strengthen the Massachusetts agricultural infrastructure relative to meat and poultry production and processing

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Relative to the effective enforcement of municipal ordinances and bylaws

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ethics and Rules

Making Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2013 to Provide for Supplementing Certain Existing Appropriations and for Certain Other Activities and Projects

Senate, Thursday, May 26, 2011– Text of the Senate amendments to the House Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2012 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for certain permanent improvements (House, No. 3401).

Relative to borrowing for and the term and apportionment of betterments and assessments for sewer projects in the town of Barnstable

Sponsor: Daniel Wolf

Relative to commercial vehicle inspections

Sponsor: Louis Kafka

Disqualifying Certain Persons Subject to G.L. c. 32,

Preserving public trust rights in land affected by ocean erosion.

Sponsor: Frank Smizik

Relative to the tax expenditure budget

Sponsor: Jay Kaufman

3/8/12 Study Order

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Revenue

Public safety

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Relative to the right to carry firearms

Sponsor: George Peterson

Relative to creating a statutory housing restriction and providing remedies related to statutory housing

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Miscellaneous insurance and banking issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Relative to the regulation of animal shelters

Sponsor: Bradford Hill

David Hanson Boater Safety Act

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Providing for the establishment and administration of rent regulation and control of evictions in mobile home park accommodations in the Town of Easton

Sponsor: Christine Canavan

To require national background checks

Sponsor: Martin Walsh

To reduce solid waste and generate municipal cost savings

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Relative to education funding for charter schools

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Authorizing the town of Arlington to establish senior citizen safety zones

Sponsor: Sean Garballey

Relative to rock wall climbing safeguards.

Sponsor: Thomas McGee

Relative to thresholds for mandated use of the designer selection law

Sponsor: Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

Establishing an apprentice training program for the rehabilitation of foreclosed properties.

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

Relating to controlled substances and medical treatment

Sponsor: Alice Peisch

Relative to vocational technical education.

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Protecting consumers from unsolicited loans

Sponsor: Linda Forry

PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF RENT REGULATIONS AND THE CONTROL OF EVICTIONS IN MANUFACTURED HOUSING COMMUNITIES IN THE TOWN OF ACUSHNET

Sponsor: Robert Koczera

Relative to the establishment of municipal lighting authorities

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Relative to certified professional midwives

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Relative to providing feedback on educator certification tests

Sponsor: Patricia Haddad

Relative to reserving beds in nursing homes during certain leaves of absence

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Elder Affairs

Relative to land use

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2012 TO PROVIDE FOR SUPPLEMENTING CERTAIN EXISTING APPROPRIATIONS AND FOR CERTAIN OTHER ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS

Relative to signs on the Massachusetts Turnpike

Sponsor: David Linsky

Requiring mental health disclosure for disability policies

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Authorizing the committee on financial services to study certain documents relative to banking laws and mortgages

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Saro

Sponsor: Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

Relative to the Disposition of Veterans' Remains

Sponsor: Shaunna O'Connell

Designating a certain Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority station in the town of Scituate as the Frank M. Hynes Station at Greenbush

Sponsor: James Cantwell

Providing for an air medal license plate

Sponsor: Stephen Canessa

Establishing a board of registration of phlebotomists

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Establishing uniform enforcement provisions and making other changes applicable to certain licensees under the jurisdiction of the Division of Banks

Sponsor: Peter Koutoujian

Relative to collective bargaining

Sponsor: Martin Walsh

Relative to prescription drug coupons

Sponsor: Bradley Jones

To strengthen the campaign finance law

Sponsor: Committee on Election Laws

Relative to the Plymouth Nuclear Power Plant

Sponsor: Viriato deMacedo

Relative to Chapter 30B

Relative to state employment postings

Sponsor: John Scibak

Relative to land taking regulations

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

To Strengthen Research and Innovation in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets

To promote environmentally sound transportation of agricultural products

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

To protect patients from breakthrough seizures

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

To promote inclusive transition programs for students with severe disabilities

Sponsor: Tom Sannicandro

To improve quality physical education.

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Mercury management, a local issue, and agriculture.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Proclaiming May as Aviation Awareness Month

Sponsor: Donald Humason

Affirming inclusion of individuals with disabilities within civil rights protections and nondiscrimination provisions in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Sponsor: Denise Provost

To limit indemnity and insurance responsiblity for general contractors and subcontractors in construction work

Sponsor: Thomas Golden

Relative to promoting women's health

Sponsor: Jennifer Benson

To include fire districts

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Relative to the definition of fraud in public construction bid laws

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

The committee on Rules, reports, under the provisions of House Rules 7B and 7C, that the accompanying order relative to special procedures for consideration of the House Bill relative to certain reforms relative to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (House Bill 4161), ought to be adopted.

Sponsor: John Binienda

Authorizing the City of Springfield to Exchange Parcels of Land

Sponsor: Sean Curran

Relative to school attendance

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Clarifying the investigative powers of the Disabled Persons Protection Commission

Sponsor: Alice Peisch

Relative to manufactured housing communities

Sponsor: Patricia Haddad

Relative to bullying in schools

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Relative to Price Disclosure

Message from His Excellency the Governor returning with his objections thereto a certain item in section 2 of the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2011 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects

Message from His Excellency the Governor returning with his objections thereto in writing the engrossed Bill establishing a sick leave bank for Patricia A. Morin, an employee of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (see House, No. 4262, amended).

Alcohol

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Relative to disabled veterans' motor vehicle plates

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

Message from His Excellency the Governor returning with vetoes and amendments of certain sections contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2013 (see House, No. 4200). July 8, 2012.

Establishing a special commission to identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of state agencies, programs and services

Sponsor: Jason Lewis

Relative to oral examinations for learners’ permits to operate motor vehicles

Sponsor: Kevin Aguiar

Relating to high school graduation requirements for students with learning disabilities

Sponsor: Committee on Education

PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Education Committee Study relative to curriculum, personnel, safety and climate, extracurricular activities and school building assistance issues

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Relative to voluntary withdrawal of land from registration

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ethics and Rules

Designating certain pavilion's in the city of Revere as the Frank V. McCarthy Memorial Pavillions

Sponsor: Kathi-Anne Reinstein

Relevant to Taxation

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Revenue

Relative to the retirement allowance of Derek Cook in the city of Springfield

Sponsor: Benjamin Swan

Relative to additional payments for police officers and firefighters

Sponsor: Bradley Jones

Relative to clear and conspicuous price disclosures

Sponsor: Carlo Basile

Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to elder protective services

Sponsor: Paul Brodeur

Creating a scholarship fund to further the study of developmental disabilities

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Higher Education

Establishing a visitors and education center in the Freetown State Forest in the town of Freetown.

Sponsor: Robert Koczera

Relative to the investment and management of municipal other post employment benefits liability trust funds

Relative to the Middlesex Canal Commission

Sponsor: James Miceli

To continue the provision of supplemental health insurance to municipal employees

Sponsor: Ronald Mariano

Relative to renewable energy generation on closed landfills

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Further regulating the practice of optometry

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2013 TO PROVIDE FOR INVESTIGATION AND RESPONSE COSTS RELATED TO THE BREACH AT THE DRUG ANALYSIS LABORATORY AT THE DR. WILLIAM A. HINTON STATE LABORATORY INSTITUTE

Establishing the correctional officers' procedural bill of rights

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

Relative to reinstatement

Sponsor: Martin Walsh

To prohibit the use of certain liability waivers as against public policy

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

Relative to absentee voting

Sponsor: Angelo Scaccia

Making appropriations for the fiscal year 2011 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects

Veterans Benefits

Sponsor: Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs

Relative to private construction and providing for an addendum to a pipefitter’s license

Sponsor: Nick Collins

Relative to coverage under the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association.

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

Relative to eliminating homelessness.

Sponsor: Carlos Henriquez

To increase access to health services

Sponsor: Kate Hogan

Making amendments to the uniform commercial code covering general provisions, documents of title and secured transactions

Sponsor: Michael Costello

To regulate real estate appraisal management companies

Authorizing the State Retirement Board to grant credible service to Thomas Famulari

Sponsor: Steven Walsh

To promote employment for people with disabilities

Sponsor: Jason Lewis

RELATIVE TO THE SELECTION OF RETIREMENT OPTIONS

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Extending the deadline for an alcoholic beverages control commission

Relative to the Sex Offender Registry

Sponsor: James Arciero

Relative to school libraries.

Sponsor: Frank Smizik

Designating a portion of Interstate 290 as the Michael Simonelli and Michael Gabriele Overpass

Sponsor: John Binienda

Study order H914

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

To define further teacher for retirement purposes.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Malia

Relative to the department of housing and community development.

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

Relative to financing the smart growth housing trust fund

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

Relative to creating job opportunities through improving access to education, empowering vocational schools, and investment

Sponsor: Bradley Jones

Extending the time period for emergency appropriations

Sponsor: Brian Ashe

State administration and regulatory oversight

Sponsor: Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

To clarity employee organization leave

Sponsor: Tackey Chan

To protect consumer rights

Sponsor: Paul McMurtry

Relative to creating a community based flexible supports Oversight Commission

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Relative to speed limits

Sponsor: Timothy Madden

Prohibiting the sale, installation and disposal of mercury thermostats

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to Anti Gang Injunctions

Sponsor: Eugene O'Flaherty

Allowing Mrs. Janet Picheny to Purchase Creditable Service with the Massachusetts Teachers Retirement System.

Sponsor: Louis Kafka

Requiring the Department of Public Health to implement a provider choice system for certain vaccines

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

To define the use of observation services

Sponsor: Ronald Mariano

Relative to create cranberry nutrient management study commission

Sponsor: William Straus

Relating to fire insurance

Sponsor: Ronald Mariano

Relative to the regulation of animal shelters

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Redefining executive and legislative agents

Sponsor: Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

To promote open space residential development

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

Transportation issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

Relative to a Cable PEG Access Enterprise Fund

Sponsor: Kevin Kuros

Relative to Health Care Quality Improvement and Cost Reduction Act of 2012

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Establishing a sick leave bank for Matthew Stuart, an employee of the department of children and families.

Sponsor: James Miceli

Relative to the sterilization of musical instruments in schools

To update the public shade tree law

Relative to certain licensing board memberships

Validating the actions taken at a certain annual town election in the town of Blackstone

Relative to the finance committee of the town of Provincetown

Sponsor: Sarah Peake

TEXT OF AN AMENDMENT TO THE SENATE BILL FURTHER REGULATING DAM SAFETY, REPAIR AND REMOVAL

Sponsor: Brian Dempsey

Dissolving the Redevelopment Authority in the town of Wilmington

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to civil service positions in the city known as the town of Agawam

Sponsor: Nicholas Boldyga

AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF EASTHAMPTON TO GRANT AN ADDITIONAL LICENSE FOR THE SALE OF ALL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES TO BE DRUNK ON THE PREMISES

Sponsor: John Scibak

Relative to psychology training

Sponsor: Ruth Balser

Establishing a sick leave bank for Donna DelCore, an employee of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Service

Prohibiting the sale, installation and disposal of mercury thermostats

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Text of an amendment to the Senate Bill providing for the licensing of applied behavior analysts.

Sponsor: John Scibak

Relative to regulation of directory assistance

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Relative to the charter of the Town of Southbridge

Sponsor: Peter Durant

ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR LOUCETA HODGE, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to certain banking laws

Sponsor: Peter Koutoujian

Authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land in the town of Danvers

Sponsor: Theodore Speliotis

Creating a domestic violence task force in the town of Greenfield

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Relative to the charter of the town of Chatham

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

Authorizing the town of Ashburnham to dispose of certain equipment

Sponsor: Stephen Brewer

Relative to town meeting warrants in the town of Templeton

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Authorizing the establishment of old growth forest reserves

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Relative to wastewater treatment in the City of Fall River

Sponsor: Kevin Aguiar

Establishing a sick leave bank for Barbara A. Dichiaro, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

Sponsor: Carlo Basile

Relative to Gold Star Family vanity registration plates

Designating a certain bridge in the City of Fitchburg The George J. Bourque Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Stephen DiNatale

To Adopt a Definition of Intellectual Disability Consistent with the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Sponsor: Daniel Winslow

Further regulating the Boston Art Commission

Sponsor: Byron Rushing

To create the position of poet laureate for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Sponsor: Sarah Peake

Reforming labor rates paid by insurance companies to auto repairers in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Establishing a Sick Leave Bank for Dazlee Alvarado, an Employee of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Sponsor: Kathi-Anne Reinstein

To update the public shade tree law

Sponsor: Jonathan Hecht

Life settlements and stranger originated life insurance

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Establishing a Sick Leave Bank for Wayne Murry

Sponsor: Matthew Beaton

To provide incentives for productive workers compensation audits

Relative to bylaws in the town of Greenfield

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Creating a library building fund for the town of Wales

Sponsor: Todd Smola

PROVIDING FOR RECALL ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF WALES

Sponsor: Todd Smola

Text of the Senate amendment (Senator Spilka) to the interim report of the joint special committee established (under Senate Order No. 9 of 2011) to make an investigation and study of a new division of the Commonwealth into Congressional districts

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

Allowing retail stores and shops to open on Thanksgiving day

Sponsor: Colleen Garry

Further regulating certain town meeting notices in the town of Belmont

Sponsor: William Brownsberger

Authorizing the town of Newbury to use certain fund balances for capital expenditures

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to authorizing the town of Aquinnah to refund a certain tax payment

Sponsor: Timothy Madden

Authorizing the town of Arlington to establish a separate account for proceeds from wireless communications antenna leases

Sponsor: Kenneth Donnelly

Establishing a sick leave bank for Wendy Watts, an employee of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services

Sponsor: Tom Sannicandro

Applying mandate review to regulatory agencies

Sponsor: Anthony Petruccelli

Establishing a voluntary rehabilitation program for pharmacist and pharmacy interns.

Sponsor: Jennifer Flanagan

Establishing a hardship waiver for Medicaid beneficiaries

Sponsor: Thomas Kennedy

To improve the senior care options program

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Elder Affairs

To promote health care cost containment through select and tiered network plans

Sponsor: Benjamin Downing

Establishing cost avoidance through care at home

Sponsor: Steven Tolman

Regarding continuity of care for children and their eligible parents

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities

To establish a task force relative to the Commonwealth's direct-care workforce

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities

To promote healthy communities and the environment.

Sponsor: Sonia Chang-Diaz

To provide for an income tax credit for taxpayers with family members requiring care in their homes.

Sponsor: John Hart

Relative to long term care insurance claims

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Regarding the countable assets of medical assistance recipients

Sponsor: James Eldridge

To provide immediate relief to small businesses on health care costs

Sponsor: Michael Moore

Relative to spousal waiver for home and community-based services for physically disabled adults age 60 and under.

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

To encourage preventive care

Sponsor: Patricia Jehlen

Ensuring fair and reasonable medicaid payment rates for services provided by health care facilities licensed to provide chronic disease hospital services to children and adolescents.

Sponsor: Steven Tolman

To support the transition to adult services for persons with disabilities

Sponsor: Gale Candaras

Relative to adult dental restoration

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Providing for HIV testing for at risk public safety officers

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Relative to durable medical equipment.

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relating to training for certified nurses' aides and direct care workers

Sponsor: Mark Montigny

Relative to recognizing the importance of public vision awareness.

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

To promote Medicaid generic drug competition and savings

Sponsor: Brian Joyce

Increasing the personal care allowance for long term care residents

Sponsor: Mark Montigny

Requiring reimbursement for the costs of providing competent interpreter services

Sponsor: Richard Moore

Relative to mandatory prescription drug coverage.

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Strengthening the mandate review law

Sponsor: Anthony Petruccelli

Relative to eligibility criteria for nursing homes serving pediatric residents.

Sponsor: Steven Tolman

Relative to adult day health services.

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Relative to health care providers and first responders education.

Sponsor: Thomas McGee

Establishing a public health insurance option

Sponsor: James Eldridge

Relative to prohibition on public-private cost shift

Sponsor: Anthony Petruccelli

Relative to equitable reimbursement rates for services provided to publicly assisted patients.

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Making technical corrections to health care practitioner and pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer conduct.

Sponsor: Mark Montigny

Senate Bills Study Order

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Relative to juvenile mental health.

Sponsor: Gale Candaras

Providing an alternative to institutional care

Sponsor: Patricia Jehlen

To strengthen the management of the health care connector.

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to Commonwealth Care eligibility

Sponsor: Benjamin Downing

Clarifying eligibility for small group health insurance

Sponsor: Steven Baddour

Relative to pediatric home care services

Sponsor: Michael Moore

Relative to emergency medical services at certain prison facilities.

Sponsor: James Timilty

Establishing a sick leave bank for Donna DelCore, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services.

Sponsor: Thomas McGee

Relative to the public health effects of hazardous air pollutants

Sponsor: Lori Ehrlich

To provide improved Medicare for all

Sponsor: Jason Lewis

Promoting equity and efficiency in rates

Sponsor: Ronald Mariano

Relative to cueing and supervision in the PCA program

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Relative to the treatment of prisoners.

Sponsor: Byron Rushing

Relative to a health care mandate moratorium

Sponsor: Harriett Stanley

Resolve to create a special commission to promote a recovery-focus in the mental health system

Sponsor: Ruth Balser

To improve access to alcohol and other drug clinical services

Sponsor: Martin Walsh

Relative to the civil commitment of women for alcoholism and substance abuse to MCI Framingham

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Relative to the definition of a pharmacy

Sponsor: Louis Kafka

To further define adverse determinations by insurers

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Establishing a pilot program for adults with Asperger syndrome and autism

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

Ensuring access to life-saving colorectal cancer screenings

Sponsor: Steven Walsh

Regarding continuity of care for children and their eligible parents

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities

To establish an Alzheimer's state plan commission

Sponsor: Cheryl Coakley-Rivera

Relative to health disparities council

Sponsor: James Dwyer

Establishing commonwealth virtual schools

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to a Temporary Suspension of the Minimum Creditable Coverage Requirements.

Sponsor: Bradley Jones

Relative to the Massachusetts health insuranceconnector

Sponsor: Daniel Webster

Creating a special commission on institutional long term care

Sponsor: Jonathan Hecht

Relative to certain Medicare coverage groups

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

Relative to promoting supplemental insurance coverage

Sponsor: Ronald Mariano

Relative to medical loss ratios

Sponsor: Ronald Mariano

Relative to living at home with use of technology for people with disabilities and seniors

Sponsor: Tom Sannicandro

Requiring ambulatory surgicenters and clinical laboratories to serve MassHealth enrollees

Sponsor: Sarah Peake

Relating to safe patient handling in certain health facilities

Sponsor: Denise Garlick

Regarding MassHealth applications

Sponsor: Carl Sciortino

Relative to firefighters

Sponsor: Kathi-Anne Reinstein

Ensuring fair and reasonable Medicaid payment rates for services provided by health care facilities licensed to provide chronic disease hospital services to children and adolescents

Sponsor: Michael Moran

Eliminating Age Discrimination In The MassHealth Program

Sponsor: Denise Provost

Authorizing the town of Millbury to issue an additional liquor license

Sponsor: Michael Moore

Relative to death benefit claims

Sponsor: James O'Day

Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to reducing the wait time for medical equipment for children with special health care needs

Sponsor: Jeffrey Sanchez

To amend the Commonwealth's drug treatment program to allow for the diversion of low level offenders under court supervision

Sponsor: Martin Walsh

Relative to the fair share employer contribution

Sponsor: James Murphy

Providing for the public disclosure of quality indicators for the developmentally disabled

Sponsor: Jennifer Benson

Regarding residential habilitation

Sponsor: Theodore Speliotis

Relative to public health data sharing with the Boston Public Health Commission

Sponsor: Jeffrey Sanchez

To improve the personal care attendant program.

Sponsor: Jennifer Benson

To improve health care access

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

To extend patient protections to recipients of MassHealth

Sponsor: Vincent Pedone

Relative to Bridgewater State Hospital

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Relative to needlestick injury prevention in public health facilities and settings

Sponsor: Christine Canavan

Increasing public safety by increasing access to addiction treatment

Sponsor: Byron Rushing

To increase the personal care allowance for residents of long term care facilities

Sponsor: Angelo Scaccia

Administering national standards to medicaid medical necessity reviews

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Relative to mental health and substance abuse clinics

Sponsor: Elizabeth Malia

Relative to coverage of medical emergency communication costs

Sponsor: Cleon Turner

Relative to healthy cosmetics

Sponsor: Kathi-Anne Reinstein

To increase the personal needs allowance for residents of long term care facilities

Sponsor: Alice Wolf

Further Regulating Group Insurance Commission Benefits for State Employees and Retired State Employees.

Sponsor: Viriato deMacedo

Relative to substance abuse treatment

Sponsor: Joyce Spiliotis

Relative to implementing health care cost containment in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Harriett Stanley

Relative to the liability of certain non-profit corporations

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

To recruit and retain certain physicians in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Vincent Pedone

Relative to fair share employer contribution

Sponsor: Geraldine Creedon

Relative to a Transfusion Related Acute Lung Injury registry.

Sponsor: Jonathan Hecht

To improve the senior care options program

Sponsor: Steven Walsh

To ensure transparency in prescription drug practices in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Jason Lewis

Relative to equitable dental reimbursement rates for services provided to publicly aided patients

Sponsor: John Scibak

Relative to a child health policy council

Sponsor: Gloria Fox

To Establish a Public Health Insurance Option

Sponsor: Jason Lewis

Creating a means for tracking the unmet need of individuals with developmental disabilities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Sponsor: Tom Sannicandro

Providing for random reviews of abuse investigations conducted by the Department of Mental Retardation

Sponsor: Thomas Stanley

Regarding the countable assets of medical assistance recipients

Sponsor: Alice Peisch

Authorizing the sale of land by the Wakefield Housing Authority

Sponsor: Katherine Clark

EXEMPTING THE POSITIONS OF PLUMBING INSPECTOR AND GAS FITTING INSPECTOR IN THE CITY OF NEWBURYPORT FROM THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW AND SECTION 11 OF CHAPTER 142 OF THE GENERAL LAWS.

Sponsor: Michael Costello

Relative to behavioral health emergency services.

Sponsor: Jennifer Flanagan

Establishing a sick leave bank for Barbara A. Dichiaro, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to ensuring the safety of residents of facilities under the authority of the department of mental health and the department of developmental services

Sponsor: George Ross

Modernizing Telephone Regulation and Encouraging Economic Growth.

Sponsor: Stephen DiNatale

Further regulating access to public records

Sponsor: Antonio Cabral

Relative to the Rose Kennedy Greenway

Sponsor: Aaron Michlewitz

To allow veterans leave to attend VA medical appointments

Sponsor: John Hart

Guranteeing consumer ownership of, privacy of, and access to motor vehicle computer data

Sponsor: James O'Day

Relative to records open to public inspection

Sponsor: Angelo Scaccia

Relative to the electronic filing of and public access to statements of financial interests

Sponsor: Carolyn Dykema

Expanding the definition of public records to include subordinate entities of public entities

Sponsor: William Brownsberger

To enhance access to electronic public records

Sponsor: Antonio Cabral

Relative to sex offender information online

Sponsor: Shaunna O'Connell

Promoting the public health of the citizens of the Commonwealth through the testing and labeling of striped bass

Sponsor: Thomas Stanley

To improve access to public records

Sponsor: Antonio Cabral

AMENDING CHAPTER 131 OF THE ACTS OF 1994 TO INCREASE BOARD OF SELECTMEN MEMBERSHIP IN THE TOWN OF SUDBURY FROM THREE TO FIVE

Sponsor: Thomas Conroy

Amending retirement beneficiaries of Dennis Mullen

Sponsor: John Hart

Relative to mandated reporters

Sponsor: Kevin Kuros

Relative to preservation commissions.

Sponsor: Theodore Speliotis

To improve municipal borrowing procedures

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Permitting the use of traffic control signal violation monitoring system devices as a means of promoting traffic safety in the city of Pittsfield

Sponsor: Christopher Speranzo

Relative to the disclosure of participation in the historic slave trade

Sponsor: Byron Rushing

Relative to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

Sponsor: Michael Costello

Directing the office of the inspector general to conduct a study of leasing practices utilized by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority

Sponsor: Bruce Ayers

Authorizing the town of Seekonk to convert seasonal licenses to annual licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Relative to establishing a searchable website of state expenditures

Sponsor: John Binienda

Authorizing Adam A. Seguin to take the civil service examination for appointment as a police officer in the town of Ware notwithstanding the maximum age requirement

Sponsor: Todd Smola

Designating Ayn Rand Day.

Sponsor: Kathi-Anne Reinstein

Relative to placing the Department of Youth Services under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Safety

Sponsor: Kevin Murphy

To Promote Responsible Contracting on State Construction Projects

Sponsor: Martin Walsh

Relative to american and world history

Sponsor: Eugene O'Flaherty

Relative to small group rating factors

Sponsor: Michael Moore

Designating the last day of February as Rare Disease Day in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Brian Ashe

Designating kickball as the official gym game of the commonwealth

Sponsor: Harold Naughton

Relative to the state building code

Sponsor: David Vieira

Relative to the approval of funding at town meeting

Sponsor: David Torrisi

Prohibiting the use of personal names on state property

Sponsor: James Arciero

Relative to MWRA employees

Sponsor: Christopher Fallon

Relative to the finishing of concrete.

Sponsor: William Galvin

To Reduce the Cost of Government and Create Jobs

Sponsor: Ryan Fattman

Relative to financial savings for the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Carlo Basile

Relative to certain environmental boating regulation enforcement

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Relative to the State Auditor to audit the General Court

Sponsor: Bradley Jones

Providing for equitable coverage in disability policies.

Sponsor: Katherine Clark

Relative to fair reimbursement to municipalities for costs relating to storms

Sponsor: James Cantwell

Designating the town of Clinton as the official textile town of the commonwealth

Sponsor: Harold Naughton

Revising the award of construction contracts

Sponsor: Daniel Webster

Resolve providing for the creation of a special commission relative to the seal and motto of the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Byron Rushing

Relative to transparency

Sponsor: Thomas Golden

Establishing the Massachusetts is open for job opportunities law

Sponsor: Daniel Winslow

Relative to the procurement of wastewater treatment and disposal services

Sponsor: John Scibak

Relative to exempting farmers’ markets from certain property taxes

Sponsor: George Ross

Concerning the State Secretary

Sponsor: Angelo Scaccia

Relative to the open meeting law

Sponsor: Antonio Cabral

Amending the charter of the town of Plymouth

Sponsor: Therese Murray

Relative to Enhancing English Opportunities For All Students in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Antonio Cabral

Relative to the Division of Professional Licensure

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Relative to the official conductor of the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Stephen DiNatale

To Encourage Economic Competition

Sponsor: Ryan Fattman

To establish delay penalties in highway construction projects

Sponsor: John Scibak

Relative to assist families care for elders

Sponsor: Kay Khan

Exempting Jeanine Bonnayer from the maximum age requirement for applying for civil service appointment as a police officer in the town of Ware

Sponsor: Todd Smola

Relative to the fair market value of Charles River Boathouse rentals

Sponsor: Michael Moran

Reforming additional assistance to municipalities

Sponsor: Antonio Cabral

Establishing a sick leave bank for Gary Vuolo, an employee of the Department of Correction.

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

Amending the open meeting law

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Relative to residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities

Sponsor: Richard Ross

Relative to the criminal justice training regarding persons with an autism spectrum disorder

Sponsor: Paul Brodeur

To further recycling across the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Tom Sannicandro

Relative to the definition of motor vehicle repair shop

Sponsor: Steven Howitt

Relative to nursing facility user fees

Sponsor: Todd Smola

Relative to nursing home audit disallowances.

Sponsor: Ronald Mariano

Updating the bottle bill

Sponsor: Alice Wolf

Relative to prior authorizations of prescription medications.

Sponsor: Steven Tolman

Relative to fire safety in buildings owned or operated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Sponsor: Theodore Speliotis

To prevent fraudulent redemption of empty beverage containers subject to the bottle law

Sponsor: John Binienda