188th General Court

Transparency and Patient Protections

Sponsor: John Keenan

Special procedures for consideration of the Senate Bill restoring the minimum wage and providing unemployment insurance reforms (Senate, No. 2123) ought to be adopted

Sponsor: John Binienda

Text of the Senate (Senator Tarr) amendment to S2123

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Text of amendment #23 to S2001 (Senator Tarr)

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Protect Our Communities

Sponsor: Katherine Clark

Authorizing the town of Falmouth to expend borrowed funds to offset certain costs associated with the installation of low pressure pumps on private property in the little pond sewer service area

Sponsor: Therese Murray

Relative to certain loans by the Federal Home Loan Bank

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

To promote environmentally sound transportation of agricultural products

Sponsor: Stephen Brewer

Relative to direct wine shipper licenses

Sponsor: John Scibak

Exempting the Harbor and Shellfish Advisory Board membership from conflict of interest regarding discussion of shellfish licensing

Sponsor: Daniel Wolf

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

Sponsor: Thomas Petrolati

Relative to local commissions on disability

Sponsor: Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

Relative to local tax transparency

Sponsor: Brian Dempsey

Relative to condominiums

Sponsor: Brian Joyce

Establishing a sick leave bank for Derik DiRico, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Sponsor: Thomas Petrolati

Designating a certain bridge in the town of Barre as the U.S.N. S2/C Basil D. Izzi Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Stephen Brewer

Relative to missing persons.

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to the Joint Base Cape Cod Fire Department

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to parental leave

Sponsor: Patricia Jehlen

Validating certain actions, proceedings and policies of the town of Ashby

Sponsor: Sheila Harrington

Authorizing the town of Hingham to establish a reserve fund for certain special education costs

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

Relative to the sterilization of musical instruments in schools

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Authorizing the board of selectmen of the town of Clinton to appoint the Town Treasurer

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Establishing a sick leave bank for Marie Silva, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

Sponsor: Paul Heroux

Relative to credit union branching

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Authorizing the appointment of special police officers in the town of Merrimac

Sponsor: Leonard Mirra

Authorizing certain pharmacy interns to administer immunizations

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Relative to rights of persons receiving services from program or facilities of the Department of Mental Health

Sponsor: Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse

To improve quality of life by expanding access to palliative care

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to the use of headlights

Sponsor: Bills in the Third Reading

Authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a parcel of land in the city of New Bedford

Sponsor: Mark Montigny

Relative to the City of Brockton's calculations of its local contribution to net school spending

Sponsor: Thomas Kennedy

Establishing a sick leave bank for Laurel MacKay, an employee of the Department of Environmental Protection

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Establishing an apprentice training program for the rehabilitation of foreclosed properties

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

Establishing a sick leave bank for Carol Poyer, an employee of the Department of Youth Services

Sponsor: John Hart

To promote solar hot water installations.

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

Establishing a sick leave bank for John Daley, an employee of the department of children and families

Sponsor: James O'Day

Relative to implementing a blue alert system in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Relative to the expenditure of certain municipal and district monies

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to updating the drug Class A schedule

Sponsor: Brian Joyce

Designating the recovery resource center at Taunton State Hospital as the Dr. Marie King Recovery Resource Center

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

To assist parental choice concerning special education placements

Sponsor: Sonia Chang-Diaz

Relative to the transfer of the employees of the Franklin Regional Council of Governments to the state employees’ retirement system

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Improving the earned income tax credit for working families

Sponsor: Cynthia Creem

Relative to sustainable water conservation practices

Sponsor: Thomas Kennedy

Preserving public trust rights in land affected by ocean erosion

Sponsor: Frank Smizik

Establishing a sick leave bank for Elaine Provencher, an employee of the Department of Public Health

Sponsor: Ronald Mariano

Relative to economic stability for displaced service workers

Sponsor: Sonia Chang-Diaz

Increasing recycling by landlords and tenants

Sponsor: James Eldridge

Coordinating services for at-risk youth

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

Authorizing the city of Lawrence to establish a program for enforcement against illegal dumping

Sponsor: Marcos Devers

Relative to program notification

Sponsor: Anthony Petruccelli

Health Care Financing Matters

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Directing the State-Saugus retirement board to retire John Coburn, a police officer of the town of Saugus

Sponsor: Donald Wong

To restore community trust in Massachusetts law enforcement

Sponsor: James Eldridge

Relative to financial services contracts for dental benefits corporations.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Exempting certain employees from the Northampton retirement system

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Protecting certain employees of private schools from frivolous reports filed pursuant to section 51A of chapter 119 of the General Laws

Sponsor: Michael Rush

Committee on Revenue

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Revenue

Authorizing the conversion of banks to another charter

Sponsor: Michael Rodrigues

To preserve eligibility for PACE program and certain waivered participants

Sponsor: James Eldridge

Decriminalizing non-violent and verbal student misconduct

Sponsor: Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Relative to updating reciprocity for licensing optometrists.

Sponsor: Jennifer Flanagan

Changing the composition of the Board of Fire Prevention Regulations

Sponsor: James Timilty

To prohibit the use of mobile telephones while operating a motor vehicle

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

Relative to state contracting

Sponsor: Kenneth Donnelly

To protect children and families from harmful flame retardants

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Establishing the Massachusetts Cemeteries Board of Oversight

Sponsor: Michael Rush

Relative to the practice of athletic training

Sponsor: Michael Rush

Authorizing the town of Carver to assess excise taxes on private water suppliers

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

The Global Warming Solutions Act

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Relative to year of manufacture registration plates

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Relative to the appointment of town managers.

Sponsor: James Timilty

Relative to the availability of prescription medication during an emergency

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to insurance holding companies

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

To study disparities in health care resulting from changes in marital status.

Sponsor: Cynthia Creem

Establishing a sick leave bank for Marjorie Pettoruto, an employee of the Highway Division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Sponsor: Leonard Mirra

Veterans affairs

Sponsor: Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs

Resolutions Budget for All

Sponsor: Daniel Wolf

To regulate the use of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Sponsor: Robert Hedlund

Further promoting energy efficiency and green jobs

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Providing incentives for productive workers compensation audits

Sponsor: Joseph Wagner

Authorizing the Department of Transportation to install certain signs

Sponsor: Richard Moore

To provide landowners title protection

Sponsor: Cynthia Creem

To include Federal Law Enforcement Officers as police officers

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to cultural district eligibility for the MassWorks infrastructure program

Sponsor: Eileen Donoghue

To accelerate entrepreneurship and innovation by partnering world-class entrepreneurs with state agencies

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

Relative to records open to public inspection

Sponsor: Kenneth Donnelly

Relative to synthetic marijuana

Sponsor: Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse

To permit town resident, Evens Maurice, to apply and be considered for appointment to the position of police officer in the town of Arlington

Sponsor: Kenneth Donnelly

Relative to a certain parcel of land in the Charlestown neighborhood of the city of Boston

Sponsor: Eugene O'Flaherty

Relative to training for law enforcement in dealing with individuals suffering from mental illness.

Sponsor: Cynthia Creem

Providing for an early retirement incentive program for Employees of the Massachusetts Port Authority

Sponsor: Anthony Petruccelli

Improving safety at Automated Teller Machines

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

To ensure compliance and equity in state reimbursement

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to flying flags at half-staff upon the death of a police officer or firefighter

Sponsor: Kenneth Donnelly

Relative to the composition of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Establishing 6-year career plans for all Massachusetts public school students

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Public safety issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Relative to wage enforcement statutes of limitations

Sponsor: Benjamin Downing

Establishing a sick leave bank for Danuta Radny, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

Sponsor: Richard Ross

Relating to supplemental real estate taxes

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Revenue

Higher education

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Higher Education

Relative to eliminating sub-precincts in the town of Andover

Sponsor: Barry Finegold

Establishing a sick leave bank for Marie Alito, an employee of the Middlesex Probate and Family Court

Sponsor: Paul Donato

Clarifying the collection of condominium fees

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Relative to the expansion of charitable license plates.

Sponsor: James Timilty

Relative to the stewardship council of the Department of Conservation and Recreation

Sponsor: Daniel Wolf

Relative to stabilizing the commonwealth’s nursing facilities

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Officially making the month of March multiple system atrophy awareness month

Sponsor: George Peterson

Relative to prejudgment interest

Sponsor: William Brownsberger

Amending the charter of the city known as the Town of Greenfield

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Relative to certain alcoholic liquor licenses

Sponsor: James Welch

Creating the official shellfish of the Commonwealth.

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

Relative to the Middlesex Canal Commission

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to the sanctity of collective bargaining

Sponsor: James Timilty

Equalizing the quarterly payments of excise taxes

Sponsor: Michael Rodrigues

To foster economic independence

Relative to the recreational tramway board

Sponsor: James Timilty

To protect bicyclists in bicycle lanes

Sponsor: William Brownsberger

Establishing a sick leave bank for Leanne O'Donoghue, an employee of the Department of Children and Families

Sponsor: Christine Canavan

A sick leave bank for person now deceased

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Service

To improve criminal laws relative to organized retail theft

Sponsor: David Linsky

Relative to risk management services

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Relative to public warehousemen

Sponsor: James Timilty

Establishing a sick leave bank for Jeffrey Cowell, an employee of the Department of Correction

Sponsor: Michael Rodrigues

Promoting transparency in local government

Sponsor: Benjamin Downing

Establishing a sick leave bank for Robert James Boucher, an employee of the Department of Correction

Sponsor: Thomas Kennedy

Clarifying dual service

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Service

Reviving the Foundation Budget Review Commission

Sponsor: Sonia Chang-Diaz

Public safety issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Granting conservation districts authority to acquire real property

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Relative to the position of assistant clerk in the Second District Court of Southern Worcester

Sponsor: Richard Moore

Establishing a sick leave bank for Tammy S. Storey, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

Sponsor: Todd Smola

Amending the composition of the Stadium and Athletic Field Commission in the city of Malden

Sponsor: Paul Donato

Relative to smart growth housing trust fund

Sponsor: Committee on Community Development and Small Business

Authorizing the use of bow and arrows for Sunday deer hunting

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to construction defect claims by condominium owners

Sponsor: James Eldridge

Relative to the civil service eligibility list for police officers in the city of Quincy

Sponsor: John Keenan

Relative to reverse mortgages

Relative to participants in entertainment exhibitions

Sponsor: Katherine Clark

Establishing earned paid sick time

Sponsor: Daniel Wolf

Financial Services

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Establishing a sick leave bank for Frances M. Vadnais, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

Relative to private construction contracts

Sponsor: Brian Joyce

Requiring equal benefits for all new parents

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

Financial Services

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Prohibiting clinical laboratory self-referrals

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Health

Authorizing the relocation, replacement, reconstruction and maintenance of a piling supported building in the town of Newbury

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

To involve youth in civic engagement

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Relative to posting employment opportunities

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Resolve creating a commission to study ways to prevent bullying of tenants in public and subsidized multi-family housing

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Housing

Establishing a sick leave bank for Brian Schwenk, an employee of the Department of Correction

Sponsor: Angelo D'Emilia

Requiring health care employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence

Sponsor: James Timilty

Relative to motor vehicle license suspension

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Restoring fairness in the unemployment insurance law for workers in temporary jobs.

Sponsor: Patricia Jehlen

Authorizing municipalities to utilize funds from enterprise accounts

Sponsor: Theodore Speliotis

Regulating the sale, transport, storage, and disposal of certain tires

Sponsor: James Eldridge

Act to ensure continued humane animal care in Massachusetts

Sponsor: Joint Committee on the Judiciary

To improve the excellence to teaching programs

Sponsor: Kenneth Donnelly

Relative to equalizing the Department of Revenue interest rates

Sponsor: Michael Moore

Relative to equity in public contracting in honor of Bruce C. Bolling

Sponsor: Sonia Chang-Diaz

Relative to workers' compensation appeals

Sponsor: William Brownsberger

Issues related to the Judiciary

Sponsor: Joint Committee on the Judiciary

To provide for the issuance of a distinctive registration plate for congenital heart defects research and treatment.

Sponsor: James Timilty

Relative to residential construction contracts

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Authorizing voluntary contributions to the Massachusetts Fire Fighters Academy Trust Fund

Sponsor: Michael Rodrigues

Relative to funerals

Sponsor: Thomas Kennedy

Establishing a sick leave bank for Keith M. Adams, an employee of the Department of Public Health

Sponsor: Josh Cutler

Relative to the definition of methylenedioxy methamphetamine

Sponsor: Brian Joyce

Relative to traffic safety

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Relative to updating the definition of cocaine

Sponsor: Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse

To promote American manufacturing

Sponsor: Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

Eliminating stage II vapor recovery systems

Sponsor: Benjamin Downing

Establishing a sick leave bank for John Morrill, an employee of the Attleboro district court

Sponsor: Paul Heroux

Establishing a sick leave bank for Jose Portalatin, an employee of the Department of Correction

Sponsor: Richard Moore

Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Relative to the sale of malt beverages and distilled spirits at auction

Sponsor: Bills in the Third Reading

Relative to mandated reporters.

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

Resolve relative to the reimbursement of Chester Gorski

Sponsor: Benjamin Downing

Establishing a sick leave bank for Robert Binton, an employee of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Sponsor: John Binienda

Requiring MassHealth to provide an explanation of benefits to beneficiaries

Sponsor: Richard Moore

To provide for tobacco cessation benefits

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Establishing a sick leave for John B. Resendes, Jr., an employee of the Department of Corrections

Sponsor: Mark Montigny

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

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

Relative to the reinstatement of a workers compensation insurance policy

Sponsor: Michael Rodrigues

Relative to transparency in private utility construction contracts

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

To keep siblings together

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

Authorizing the department of capital asset management and maintenance to lease certain land in the town of Hull to The Friends of the Paragon Carousel, Inc.

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

To clarify employer sanctions for improper expenditure of withholdings or deductions from wages.

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

Providing additional protection against insurance fraud in the repair of damaged vehicles

Sponsor: Anthony Petruccelli

Creating a process to evaluate exposure to catastrophic flooding as a result of climate change

Sponsor: William Brownsberger

Further clarifying the preservation of the Blackstone River and Canal

Sponsor: Richard Moore

Requiring child and parent involvement in permanency and placement planning

Sponsor: Gale Candaras

Encouraging municipal recycling and composting

Sponsor: James Eldridge

Relative to the Muscular Dystrophy Association

Sponsor: Diana DiZoglio

Relative to the qualification of inspectors of wire and assistant inspectors of wire employed by a city or town

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Establishing a sick leave bank for Donna Salois, an employee of the Wrentham Development Center

Sponsor: Elizabeth Poirier

To reduce solid waste in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Kenneth Donnelly

Elephants

Sponsor: Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development

Providing for burial benefits under the workers' compensation act

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

Community development and small business

Sponsor: Committee on Community Development and Small Business

Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to child suicide

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Labor and workforce affairs

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

Relative to the expansion of the state DNA database

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to acceptable health service training for psychologists

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Providing for a study by the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development relative to a state new markets tax credit program

Sponsor: Michael Knapik

To establish a commission on full and fair education funding and administration

Sponsor: James Timilty

To facilitate the growth of innovative food enterprises in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Sonia Chang-Diaz

Establishing the Correctional Officers' Procedural Bill of Rights

Sponsor: Michael Moore

Relative to the interstate compact warrant.

Sponsor: Cynthia Creem

Establishing a sick leave bank for Robert A. Montalvo, an employee of the Department of Correction

Sponsor: Thomas Golden

Relative to the Clerk of Courts

Sponsor: Michael Rush

Relative to credits to the workforce competitiveness trust fund

Sponsor: Kenneth Donnelly

Establishing a sick leave bank for Beth-Ann Litchfield, an employee of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

An Order to investigate and study certian Senate documents relative to mental health and substance abuse

Sponsor: Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Regarding the penalties for drag racing.

Sponsor: Cynthia Creem

To amend the Barnstable County home rule charter by adding a recall provision

Sponsor: Daniel Wolf

Relative to apprenticeship programs

Sponsor: Michael Moore

Relative to manufactured housing communities

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Housing

Relative to police training

Sponsor: James Timilty

To further narrow the achievement gap

Sponsor: Barry Finegold

Authorizing the establishment of old growth forest reserves

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to concussion prevention

Sponsor: Theodore Speliotis

Relative to taking or transmitting images of crime victims by first responders

Sponsor: Joseph Wagner

Establishing a sick leave bank for Rose M. Passy, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

Sponsor: Todd Smola

Establishing the Massachusetts Law Enforcement Memorial Fund

Sponsor: James Timilty

Promoting restorative justice practices.

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

Designating the former Canton airport site as the 1st Lt. Arthur E. Farnham, Jr., and SSgt. Thomas M. Connolly, Jr. Memorial Park, Neponset River Reservation

Sponsor: William Galvin

To standardize the regulation of skilled nursing facilities

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Relative to biennial elevator inspections

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Relative to dropout prevention and recovery

Sponsor: Sonia Chang-Diaz

To manage the other post-employment benefits liability of the town of Harvard

Sponsor: James Eldridge

Relative to the parental notification for minors who violate probation

Sponsor: Stephen Brewer

Authorizing the appointment of special police officers in the town of Wrentham

Sponsor: Richard Ross

Relative to agricultural operations

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

Relative to Feoffees

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to the composition of the citizens advisory committee for the former Northampton State Hospital

Sponsor: Theodore Speliotis

Providing for the waiver of fees for contesting motor vehicle infractions

Sponsor: Cynthia Creem

Resolutions urging the Census Bureau to provide redistricting data that counts prisoners in a manner consistent with the principles of “One Person, One Vote.”

Sponsor: Sonia Chang-Diaz

Relative to local property tax exemptions for certain persons

Sponsor: Michael Rush

To promote global trade and economic development through dual language and bi-literacy

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

Relative to redevelopment in the Roxbury area of the city of Boston

Sponsor: Sonia Chang-Diaz

Regulating cadmium in children's jewelry

Sponsor: Gale Candaras

To create a Massachusetts Financial Services Advisory Council

Sponsor: Anthony Petruccelli

Relative to mobile spas

Sponsor: Michael Rodrigues

To regulate the use of automatic license plate reader systems

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

Relative to designating Route 18 in New Bedford to honor the Edward M. Kennedy Historical Waterfront Boulevard

Sponsor: Mark Montigny

Relative to active streets and healthy communities

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Establishing a sick leave bank for Maria Blanciforte, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

Sponsor: Carlo Basile

Establishing a sick leave bank for Juan Leon, an employee of the Department of Correction

Sponsor: Jennifer Flanagan

Establishing a sick leave bank for Sharon Jones, an employee of the Department of Environmental Protection

Sponsor: Patricia Jehlen

To improve access to child and adolescent mental health services

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Further regulating the licensing requirements for massage therapists

Sponsor: Theodore Speliotis

Relative to the special election in the city known as the town of Greenfield

Sponsor: Stanley Rosenberg

Relative to the Glenwood Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund

Sponsor: Salvatore DiDomenico

Adjusting the number of racing days at Suffolk Downs

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Regulating pharmacy audits

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Validating the results of a certain election held in the town of Chilmark

Amending the charter of the city of Chicopee

Sponsor: Joseph Wagner

Relative to driver’s licenses and identification cards photographs

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Establishing a sick leave bank for Janet Frame, an employee of the Department of Developmental Services

Sponsor: Angelo Puppolo

Relative to retail licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages at continuing care retirement communities

Sponsor: Paul McMurtry

Relative to the Department of Public Works in the town of Carver

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

Regulating the processing of lobsters

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to the appointment of special police officers in the town of Millbury

Sponsor: Michael Moore

Relative to the Templeton Developmental Center Reuse Committee

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Relative to hospital indemnity insurance policies

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Adjusting the number of racing days at Suffolk Downs

Sponsor: Anthony Petruccelli

Relative to the position of treasurer-collector in the town of Carver

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

Establishing a Mystic River watershed water quality commission

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Providing equitable treatment for post-acute care hospitals

Sponsor: Kevin Honan

Authorizing the town of Dedham to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises

Sponsor: Paul McMurtry

Relative to the appointment of designees to the Inspector General Council

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Further regulating the crime of accosting and annoying

Sponsor: Richard Moore

Relative to the indemnification of certain fire districts

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ethics and Rules

Relative to the use of headlights.

Sponsor: David Linsky

To maintain public water systems

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Designating a certain state owned bridge in the town of Randolph as the Charles L. Bowley memorial bridge

Sponsor: Walter Timilty

Relative to licenses issued by the Division of Marine Fisheries

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to Shellfish Aquaculture license fees in the Town of Fairhaven

Sponsor: William Straus

Relative to the town clerk in the town of Edgartown

Sponsor: Timothy Madden

Relative to the Massachusetts life and health insurance guaranty association law

Sponsor: Bills in the Third Reading

Providing the terms of certain bonds financing the expansion of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

Relative to acute-care medical-surgical bed counts

Sponsor: William Pignatelli

Authorizing the town of Freetown to pay a certain unpaid bill

Sponsor: Michael Rodrigues

Strengthening early support and education

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Regulating pharmacy audits

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

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

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Higher Education

Amending the charter of the town of Bourne

Sponsor: Bills in the Third Reading

To update the public shade tree law

Sponsor: Jonathan Hecht

To maintain public water systems

Sponsor: Jennifer Flanagan

Relative to streamlining home improvement contractor registration

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Incorporating the title appearing in chapter 63 of the Acts of 2006 within chapter 260, section 33, of Massachusetts General Laws, as of the date of its enactment

Sponsor: John Rogers

Relative to the self-determination advisory board

Sponsor: Tom Sannicandro

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

Sponsor: Wayne Matewsky

For local tax transparency

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Regulating the direct shipment of wine

Sponsor: Timothy Madden

Relative to licensing massage therapists

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Authorizing the town of Acton police patrol officers and superior officers to be exempt from the provisions of the Civil Service Law

Sponsor: Jennifer Benson

Relative to student driver safety

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

Relative to the sale of distilled spirits at auction

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Designating the street hockey arena in Marine Park in the South Boston section of the city of Boston

Sponsor: Nick Collins

Allowing certain senior support staff members of Protection Fire Co. No. 1 Byfield, Massachusetts to continue to serve beyond the age of 65

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Establishing a sick leave bank for Christopher Johnson, an employee of the Department of Correction

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Authorizing certain pharmacy interns to administer immunizations

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Establishing a commission on the status of children and youth

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Authorizing the board of assessors of the town of Sturbridge to grant tax abatements to certain military personnel

Sponsor: Todd Smola

ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR STEPHANIE DERONETTE, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.

Sponsor: Christopher Fallon

Establishing a Mystic River watershed water quality commission

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Resolve establishing a commission to study art in public spaces

Sponsor: Sarah Peake

Addressing the fiscal year 2015 budget shortfall

Designating a certain bridge over the Merrimack River as the Congressman William H. Bates Veterans Memorial Bridge

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to the Department of Inspectional Services in the city of Lynn

Sponsor: Thomas McGee

Relative to community shared solar energy systems in the town of Harvard

Sponsor: James Eldridge

Relative to the board of selectmen-town manager form of government in the town of Great Barrington

Sponsor: William Pignatelli

Relative to the Middleton town charter

Sponsor: Bradley Jones

Recommended (Ethics and Rules) new text to the House Bill relative relativeto hospital indemnity insurance policies (House, No. 3730)

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ethics and Rules

Concerning long-term homeowners

Sponsor: Nick Collins

Establishing a sick leave bank for Therese Cormier, an employee of the Trial Court

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

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

Sponsor: Alice Peisch

Relative to the town charter for the town of Ipswich

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH TO ESTABLISH AN 1820 COURTHOUSE FUND.

Sponsor: Therese Murray

Establishing a sick leave bank for Alexis Baez, an employee of the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Authorizing the town of Walpole to grant additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages and wines and malt beverages to be drunk on the premises

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Repeal of 2013 gas tax indexing

Relative to licensing massage therapists.

Sponsor: Antonio Cabral

To improve quality of life by expanding access to palliative care

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Health

For local tax transparency

Sponsor: Jay Kaufman

To further the sharing of information by the Registry of Motor Vehicles

Sponsor: Louis Kafka

Providing for recall elections in the town of Hinsdale

Sponsor: Paul Mark

Authorizing the town of Hudson to grant additional licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Relative to cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification for athletic coaches

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Making appropriations for the fiscal year 2014 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects

Authorizing the town of Hudson to grant additional licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises at Highland Commons

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Exempting the police department of the town of Westwood from the civil service law

Sponsor: Michael Rush

To regulate NBOMe, a dangerous synthetic drug

Sponsor: Cory Atkins

Relative to the composition of the citizens advisory committee for the former Northampton State Hospital

Sponsor: Peter Kocot

AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF IPSWICH TO GRANT 2 ADDITIONAL 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 improving notice requirements for self-storage

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ethics and Rules

Authorizing the town of Whately to continue the employment of Donald Dufault and John DuBois

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Establishing a sick leave bank for Joseph Quinn, an employee of the Trial Court

Sponsor: Kenneth Donnelly

Authorizing an ordinance amending chapter11, article II, division 2 entitled "City Treasurer" of the city code of the city of Peabody

Sponsor: Joan Lovely

Authorizing the town of Stoneham to grant 5 additional 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 the list of legal investments prepared by the Commissioner of Banks

Sponsor: Brian Dempsey

Relative to the town charter for the town of Ipswich

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to the town treasurer in the town of Blandford

Sponsor: William Pignatelli

Relative to the Massachusetts life and health insurance guaranty association law

Sponsor: Russell Holmes

Designating the last Tuesday of May as Southbridge Lions Club Bow Ties For Esophageal Cancer Awareness Day

Sponsor: Peter Durant

Exempting the police department in the town of Burlington from the Civil Service Law

Sponsor: Kenneth Gordon

RELATIVE TO THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION FOR THE TOWN OF NANTUCKET.

Sponsor: Timothy Madden

Relative to credit union branching

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Relative to the charter of the town of Bellingham

Sponsor: Richard Moore

Relative to certain municipal salaries in the city of Lynn

Sponsor: Robert Fennell

Establishing a sick leave bank for Timothy Maxfield, an employee of the Department of Mental Health

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

To create and maintain jobs in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

Relative to student learning time at Mohawk Trail Regional School District

Sponsor: Paul Mark

Care and protection of children

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

Relative to the best interests of children

Sponsor: Sheila Harrington

Relative to non-competition agreements

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

For consumer protection and regulation in psychotherapy

Sponsor: Jay Kaufman

To protect health care reform funding

Sponsor: Linda Forry

Exempting the Town of Dennis from provisions of the prevailing wage law

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

Health care financing matters

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Providing retiree healthcare benefits reform

Establishing a sales tax holiday in 2014

Sponsor: John Hart

Health care financing matters

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

To promote transformative development in gateway cities

Sponsor: Antonio Cabral

Providing for the secure storage of large numbers of firearms

Sponsor: Kevin Murphy

Removing change of address civil rights penalties

Sponsor: George Peterson

Relative to equitable firearm license fees

Sponsor: George Peterson

Relative to youth firearm training and competition

Sponsor: George Peterson

Establishing a commission to study school safety and security

Sponsor: James Dwyer

Relative to non-resident Second Amendment civil rights

Sponsor: George Peterson

Resolve to establish a special commission relative to gun violence and the reduction of poverty in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Thomas Conroy

Relative to senior gun owner equity act

Sponsor: Kevin Kuros

Relative to bow hunting

Sponsor: Tackey Chan

Relative to cast iron pipelines in the commonwealth of Massachusetts

Sponsor: Christopher Fallon

Relative to the preservation of the second amendment

Sponsor: Fred Barrows

Relative to firearm safety training of military personnel

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Relative to gun safe deductions

Sponsor: George Peterson

Associated with incurred fines for delayed firearm license renewals

Sponsor: George Peterson

Relative to the establishment of mandatory school safety procedures

Sponsor: Bradford Hill

Relative to buffer zones on land under the agricultural restriction program

Sponsor: Paul Schmid

Relative to the sale and possession of body armor

Sponsor: Brian Mannal

Creating a school resource officer grant program and fund

Sponsor: James Cantwell

Creating a statewide gun offender registry

Sponsor: Aaron Michlewitz

To strengthen and enhance firearms laws in the Commonwealth.

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture to make an investigation and study of a certain House document concerning agricultural restrictions

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Regulating the use of credit reports by employers

Sponsor: Michael Barrett

Establishing a sick leave bank for Kathleen Restuccia, an employee of the Massachusetts Trial Court

Sponsor: Paul McMurtry

Authorizing the town of Conway to continue the employment of police officer David Johnson

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Relative to small brewers

Sponsor: Alice Peisch

Transportation issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

Relative to the lawful sale of handguns

Sponsor: George Peterson

Relative to creating an Olympic firearm roster

Sponsor: Sheila Harrington

Relative to civil rights and public safety

Sponsor: George Peterson

Establishing a sick leave bank for Michael J. Macuch, an employee of the Department of Correction

Sponsor: Susan Gifford

Relative to school safety issues

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to firearm safety training of military personnel

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Relative to the scheduling of high school athletic contests

Sponsor: John Scibak

Resolve establishing a special commission on school safety

Sponsor: Tackey Chan

School safety

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Utility law

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Relative to the pretrial detention of violent offenders

Sponsor: George Peterson

Authorizing the town of Southborough to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Designating a certain boat launch area in the town of Hardwick as the Stephen M. Brewer fishing area

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Relative to the town of Fairhaven establishing the position of town administrator

Sponsor: William Straus

Relative to pesticide application

Sponsor: Thomas Conroy

Pesticides

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Dairy

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Providing for limited property tax relief for certain elder citizens in the town of Andover

Sponsor: Frank Moran

To provide an income tax exemption for families caring for their elderly relatives at home

Sponsor: Tackey Chan

Authorizing owners to utilize products from cows or goats

Sponsor: William Pignatelli

Zoning

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Relative to mooring fee requirements

Sponsor: Sarah Peake

Prohibiting discrimination against adults with disabilities in family and juvenile court proceedings

Sponsor: Paul Heroux

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: Elizabeth Poirier

The judiciary

Sponsor: Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Relative to vegetation management

Sponsor: Cleon Turner

To ensure quality education

Sponsor: Keiko Orrall

Relative to protecting senior health

Sponsor: Mark Cusack

Relative to safe driving

Sponsor: Tricia Farley-Bouvier

Hemp

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Relative to net school spending in fiscal year 2014

Sponsor: Stephen Brewer

School Finance

Sponsor: Committee on Education

Brewster, Provincetown and Wellfleet

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Revenue

Authorizing municipalities to protect low and moderate income tenants and units of governmentally involved housing

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Toxic Management

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Relative to the transfer of funding for recovery high school summer programming

Sponsor: John Keenan

Safe driving

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

The public health.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Health

Relative to preventing fraud

Sponsor: Carlo Basile

Relative to greater fairness in insurance

Sponsor: Tom Sannicandro

Reforming certain state laws regarding public deposits

Sponsor: David Nangle

Relative to studying tidal turbines

Sponsor: Peter Kocot

Financial services

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services

Enforcement

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Relative to the retirement rights of building trades employees at institutions of public higher education

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Relative to retirement benefits and UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Relative to prohibit landlords from requiring a cat to be declawed

Sponsor: Anthony Petruccelli

To regulate homeowners’ associations

Sponsor: James O'Day

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy to make an investigation and study of certain House documents concerning telecommunications, utilities and energy issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy

Relative to level IV treatment interventions.

Sponsor: Brian Joyce

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture to make an investigation and study of certain House documents concerning miscellaneous environmental issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities to make an investigation and study of certain Senate and House documents concerning behavioral and humane treatment issues

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

To improve quality in early education centers

Sponsor: Jeffrey Sanchez

Relative to the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises in the town of Topsfield

Sponsor: Bradford Hill

To promote housing creation for persons with disabilities

Sponsor: Jason Lewis

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Housing to make an investigation and study of certain Senate and House documents concerning housing issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Housing

Relative to the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Clarifying patient safety protections

Sponsor: Martin Walsh

Establishing a sick leave bank for Anthony Gerniglia, an employee of the Department of Youth Services

Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Public Service to make an investigation and study of certain House documents concerning public service issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Public Service

To transition to a clean energy Commonwealth

Sponsor: Lori Ehrlich

Relative to the preservation of Fowl Meadow

Sponsor: Walter Timilty

To provide Addiction/Sobriety Solutions through Increased Substance Treatment (ASSIST)

Sponsor: Randy Hunt

Protecting children residing in public housing in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: John Scibak

Authorizing regularly-employed personnel in the City Clerk’s Office in the city of Gardner to administer oaths and affirmations

Sponsor: Jonathan Zlotnik

Authorizing the city of Boston to grant 6 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises

Sponsor: Edward Coppinger

ESTABLISHING A CAPITAL EXPENDITURE FUND IN THE TOWN OF REHOBOTH

Sponsor: Steven Howitt

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Labor & Workforce Development to make an investigation and study of certain House documents concerning labor and workforce development.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

To maintain the classification of commuter-rail workers

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

To establish a Massachusetts incubator network to be known as MassMarket

Sponsor: Geoff Diehl

To provide unemployment benefits to laid off employees of educational institutions

Sponsor: Ellen Story

Relative to regional collaboration and long-term economic development in small communities of high need and opportunity

Sponsor: Denise Andrews

Relative to the definition of an employee

Sponsor: Bradley Jones

Relative to commercial rebate expiration

Sponsor: Carl Sciortino

Relative to boat registration

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Relative to unemployment insurance

Sponsor: Bradley Jones

To provide occupational safeguards for employees resulting from the introduction and utilization of video display terminals

Sponsor: Martin Walsh

Relative to parking lots.

Sponsor: Carolyn Dykema

Recognizing the independence of franchise operators

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

To improve the Commonwealth's economy with a strong minimum wage

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

To further protect an employee's right to tips

Sponsor: Aaron Michlewitz

Affecting the payment of rebates in retail stores

Sponsor: William Straus

Promoting children safety

Sponsor: Steven Howitt

Relative to labor relations governing commuter rail employers working within the boundaries of the Commonwealth.

Sponsor: Garrett Bradley

Recognizing Massachusetts State Parks Day

Sponsor: Michael Rush

To further protect an employee's right to tips

Sponsor: John Hart

Relative to the Save Our Children’s Sight Fund

Sponsor: Thomas Kennedy

Promoting the Commonwealth's economic recovery with a strong minimum wage

Sponsor: Denise Provost

Relative to knife manufacturing

Sponsor: Todd Smola

Relative to franchises in Massachusetts

Sponsor: Michael Knapik

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Transportation to make an investigation and study of certain Senate and House documents concerning transportation issues

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Transportation to make an investigation and study of certain Senate and House documents concerning transportation issues.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

Relative to independent contractors

Sponsor: Michael Rodrigues

Relative to natural gas alarms

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Incorporating carsharing in smart growth planning

Sponsor: Carl Sciortino

Validating the results of the annual town meeting of the town of Ashland held on May 2, 2012

Increasing the number of licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages in the town of Easton

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

Relative to lawful presence

Sponsor: Richard Moore

Relative to the Massachusetts Aeronautics Division

Sponsor: Kate Hogan

Relative to the Ride Service of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

Sponsor: Louis Kafka

Relative to motorcycle safety.

Sponsor: Todd Smola

Providing for a distinctive registration plate for paratroopers

Sponsor: James Miceli

To promote safe driving

Sponsor: Brian Joyce

Establishing a pilot program for traffic violation monitoring system

Sponsor: James Welch

Relative to the use of the Neponset Valley Parkway in the town of Milton

Sponsor: Walter Timilty

Relative to speed limits

Sponsor: Denise Provost

Eliminating transit fares for certain members of the armed services and their dependents.

Sponsor: Kathi-Anne Reinstein

To grant authority to the secretary of the executive office of transportation and public works to charge and collect tolls at the borders of the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

To manage traffic related to retail agricultural businesses

Sponsor: Kate Hogan

Authorizing the Department of Highways to acquire a certain dam in the town of Norwood

Sponsor: John Rogers

Relative to public safety at the Furnace Brook Parkway in the city of Quincy.

Sponsor: Bruce Ayers

Relative to pedestrian safety

Sponsor: Michael Moore

Relative to the study of open road tolling in the Commonwealth

Sponsor: James Murphy

Relative to safe and healthy travel

Sponsor: Denise Provost

Relative to access to Registry of Motor Vehicle information

Sponsor: Paul McMurtry

Relative to Route 128 interchange improvements

Sponsor: Jerald Parisella

To provide concurrent police authority for Massachusetts Port Authority properties

Sponsor: John Hart

Relative to tolls on the Tobin/Mystic River Bridge and Sumner Tunnel

Sponsor: Kathi-Anne Reinstein

To establish the speed limit for US Route 3

Sponsor: Sean Garballey

Relative to the tolls at the Sumner Tunnel

Sponsor: Kathi-Anne Reinstein

Relative to the transfer of a certain road to the Commonwealth.

Sponsor: James O'Day

Freezing the tolls on the Massachusetts turnpike and the metropolitan highway system

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

Relative to transportation finance and equity

Sponsor: Denise Provost

Relative to motor vehicle registration plates

Sponsor: William Brownsberger

Providing for the safety of vulnerable road users

Sponsor: Sean Garballey

Relative to special veterans license plates.

Sponsor: Harold Naughton

Relative to increasing the civil fines and financial responsibilities and criminal penalties of motorists who violate the right of way of other motorists, motorcyclists, bicyclists and/or pedestrians, resulting in serious bodily injury and/or death

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Prohibiting tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

To provide greater protection in registry of motor vehicle hearings

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

Relative to certain passengers on motorcycles.

Sponsor: Todd Smola

Increasing protection against drivers under the influence of drugs.

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

Enhancing local road construction

Sponsor: Richard Ross

Relative to the sustainability of the trucking industry

Sponsor: Joseph Wagner

Authorizing the city of Quincy to establish neighborhood speed reduction zones

Sponsor: Ronald Mariano

Establishing a distinctive motor vehicle license plate for the University of Massachusetts

Sponsor: Michael Moran

Relative to promoting reasonable executive compensation at private sector human services agencies

Sponsor: James O'Day

Relative to commercial driver licensing

Sponsor: Antonio Cabral

Entitling residents west of 128 to discounted access to the Massachusetts Turnpike

Sponsor: Paul Frost

Establishing mileage based numbering for exits along interstate highways

Sponsor: Paul Mark

Providing for public input into public transit decisions

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

Relative to motorcycle helmet choice

Sponsor: Marc Lombardo

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

Sponsor: James Cantwell

Relative to proper notification of license renewal

Sponsor: Michael Knapik

Relative to reckless or negligent operation of a motor vehicle.

Sponsor: Thomas Stanley

Relative to driver's licenses

Sponsor: William Brownsberger

Relative to the protection of pedestrians at crosswalks

Sponsor: Brian Joyce

Relative to tolls on the Tobin/Mystic River Bridge.

Sponsor: Kathi-Anne Reinstein

Discounting vehicle registration fees for light vehicles

Sponsor: Jonathan Hecht

Relative to the access of computer terminals by private detectives licensed by the Department of State Police as authorized under the provisions of the federal driver privacy protection act (DPPA), as amended, 18 U.S.C. section 2721, et seq.

Sponsor: James Cantwell

Directing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to conduct a highway noise study in Quincy

Sponsor: John Keenan

Relative to split-screen technology

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

To require restroom breaks for public transit

Sponsor: Marc Pacheco

Professionalizing the delivery of core services of the Registry of Motor Vehicles

Sponsor: Brian Joyce

Relative propane powered vehicles

Sponsor: Michael Moore

To allow hybrid and alternate fuel vehicles in hov-designated highway lanes.

Sponsor: Robert Hedlund

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Health Care Financing to make an investigation and study of certain House documents concerning human services agencies and emergency responders

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Establishing a more equitable public transit fare structure

Sponsor: Kenneth Donnelly

Resolve establishing a special commission to identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of type II noise barrier implementation plan

Sponsor: James Dwyer

Relative to Massachusetts Civil Air Patrol vehicles and trailers

Sponsor: David Vieira

Resolve to reduce traffic on the Massachusetts Turnpike

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Relative to special veterans plates

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

To voluntarily provide certain medical information on drivers licenses

Sponsor: Harriette Chandler

Relative to school bus safety

Sponsor: James Timilty

Establishing the commuter rail patrons bill of rights

Sponsor: Tom Sannicandro

Relative to traffic enforcement cameras

Sponsor: Kenneth Donnelly

Relative to safe driving in school speed zones

Sponsor: Denise Provost

Establishing a payroll tax to increase funding of mass transportation and establishing a transportation finance advisory board

Sponsor: Sean Garballey

Relative to the high occupancy vehicle lane

Sponsor: Josh Cutler

Relative to establishing speed limits on certain local roads

Sponsor: Stephen Kulik

Relative to distinctive registration plates

Sponsor: John Fernandes

To provide young drivers with more practical driving experience

Sponsor: Josh Cutler

Establishing a commuter tolling program for transit over the turnpike

Sponsor: William Pignatelli

Relative to transportation investment, regional fairness, and accountability to state policies

Sponsor: Tricia Farley-Bouvier

Promoting fairness and equity in transportation planning

Sponsor: Karen Spilka

Relative to the creation of a motor carrier advisory council

Sponsor: Joseph Wagner

Relative to the Support Our Troops distinctive registration plates

Sponsor: Thomas Stanley

Relative to bicycle safety

Sponsor: Cynthia Creem

Relative to the Massachusetts DOT Aviation Division Capital Expenditure Program.

Sponsor: Donald Humason

Relative to the clarification for the definition, testing regulations, and enforcement of motorcycle sound emissions

Sponsor: Angelo D'Emilia

Exempting certain elderly persons from paying tolls.

Sponsor: Kathi-Anne Reinstein

Relative to commercial fees

Sponsor: Bruce Tarr

To allow oral examinations for learning permits

Sponsor: Antonio Cabral

Relative to electric vehicles in high occupancy lanes

Sponsor: Josh Cutler

Relative to the soundproofing program facilitated by the Massachusetts Port Authority

Sponsor: Bruce Ayers

Relative to aviation preservation restrictions

Sponsor: Kate Hogan

Directing certain payments to cities and towns by the Massport authority

Sponsor: Bruce Ayers

Relative to standards for protective headgear for operators or passengers on motorcycles

Sponsor: Anne Gobi

Relative to contract assistance for Central Artery debt of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Sponsor: Carl Sciortino

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Transportation to make an investigation and study of certain Senate and House documents concerning transportation issues.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Transportation

Relative to a violence prevention education license plate

Sponsor: Benjamin Swan

Establishing an autism spectrum disorder designation on driver’s licenses and identification cards and criminal justice training relative to autism spectrum disorders

Sponsor: Denise Andrews

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

Relative to expired licenses

Sponsor: Christopher Markey

Order relative to authorizing the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture to make an investigation and study of certain House documents concerning invasive species.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Relative to the disposal of municipally owned vacant property

Sponsor: Steven Walsh

Requiring specially marked licenses for repeat offenders who drive under the influence of intoxicating liquors or controlled substances

Sponsor: William Pignatelli

Relative to motor vehicle registration

Sponsor: John Fernandes

Relative to state purchasing power for privately-owned public-use airports.

Sponsor: Donald Humason

Relative to special license plates

Sponsor: Steven Howitt

Resolve relative to construction on Route 3

Sponsor: James Cantwell

Relative to motor fuels

Sponsor: Peter Kocot

Relative to defense policies of the Commonwealth

Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

Providing for a certain exemption from the sales tax for 2014

Sponsor: James Murphy

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

To increase revenue by collecting monies owed to the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Daniel Winslow

Providing for local property tax relief

Sponsor: Cory Atkins

Relative to automobiles

Sponsor: David Nangle

To promote efficiency and transparency in economic development

Sponsor: Carl Sciortino

Providing for local property tax relief

Sponsor: Cory Atkins

Providing for more efficient wetlands

Sponsor: Robert Fennell

Establishing the Massachusetts special events marketing program

Sponsor: Sarah Peake

Resolve to study the loss of revenues of the Commonwealth

Sponsor: Thomas Stanley

Relative to the gradual increase in the taxation of sales of gasoline

Sponsor: Thomas Conroy

Relative to municipal infrastructure improvement

Sponsor: Ruth Balser

Making senior citizen property tax relief more equitable

Sponsor: Alice Peisch

Relative to the excise taxes of motor vehicles

Sponsor: John Fernandes

Relative to the welfare of the taxpayers of the commonwealth

Sponsor: Nicholas Boldyga

To encourage affordable housing

Sponsor: Jeffrey Sanchez

Allowing PILOT payments to municipalities

Sponsor: Chris Walsh

Relative to abatement applications

Sponsor: James Cantwell

To direct tobacco tax revenues to reduce tobacco use and its harms

Sponsor: Danielle Gregoire

Providing for home health care & hospice tax credits

Sponsor: Paul Frost

Relative to disabled service-connected veterans and the motor vehicle excise tax

Sponsor: John Binienda

Relative to the taxation of alternative energy systems used by municipal property

Sponsor: Thomas Stanley

Relative to the sales tax

Sponsor: Bradley Jones

Updating non-taxable medical supplies

Sponsor: Louis Kafka

To promote the use of electric vehicles

Sponsor: Jonathan Hecht

Exempting hand packed ice cream from the state sales tax

Sponsor: Martin Walsh

Establishing a sick leave bank for Richard Bravoco, an employee of the Department of Correction

Sponsor: Kathleen O'Connor Ives

Relative to an inventory tax commission

Sponsor: Paul Frost

Relative to teacher innovation and school supplies support

Sponsor: Paul McMurtry

Relative to protection of open space

Sponsor: Carolyn Dykema

Relative to shifting from carbon emissions to transportation investment

Sponsor: Thomas Conroy

To establish tax transparency and strengthen the reporting requirements of public charities and to establish reporting requirements for the trustees and directors of public charities

Sponsor: Michael Moran

Relative to same-sex marriage equality

Sponsor: Aaron Michlewitz

To create an income tax deduction for municipal and school fees

Sponsor: David Linsky

Relative to helping seniors

Sponsor: Bradley Jones

Relative to local sales tax assessment

Sponsor: William Galvin

Relative to exempting farmers’ markets from certain property taxes

Sponsor: Paul Heroux

Relative to thoroughbred horse breeding

Sponsor: Ann-Margaret Ferrante

Relative to the repeal of the sales tax exemption for aircraft

Sponsor: Cory Atkins

Relative to increasing economic development and business opportunity in the design and manufacture of video games through the use of tax credits.

Sponsor: John Binienda

Relative to solar taxation

Sponsor: Matthew Beaton

To enhance the Massachusetts investment tax credit

Sponsor: Claire Cronin

Relative to mortgage forgiveness on principal residences

Sponsor: James Arciero

To reduce childhood obesity

Sponsor: Kay Khan

To improve fairness in appealing property tax assessments

Sponsor: Jason Lewis

Relative to Reductions in Property Tax Liabilities.

Sponsor: Louis Kafka

Relative to the preservation and expansion of live musical and theatrical productions

Sponsor: Paul McMurtry

Relative to off road use exemption for gasoline excise taxes

Sponsor: John Fernandes

Establishing a sales tax holiday in the Commonwealth for the year 2013

Sponsor: Bradley Jones

Relative to expanding the septic system tax credit

Sponsor: Fred Barrows

The fair share pension act

Sponsor: Ryan Fattman

Relative to promoting the commonwealth tax incentive

Sponsor: Paul Frost

To remove the film tax credit expiration date

Sponsor: Tackey Chan

Relative to local education investment

Sponsor: Thomas Conroy

Relative to the senior circuit breaker tax credit

Sponsor: Tackey Chan

Relative to tourism

Sponsor: Sarah Peake

Relative to agricultural production and profitability

Sponsor: Peter Kocot

Relative to the taxation of condominiums

Sponsor: Jennifer Benson

Relative to the meals tax holiday

Sponsor: Marc Lombardo

Establishing a motorcycle safety fund

Sponsor: Tom Sannicandro

Relative to the taxation of state pensions.

Sponsor: Timothy Madden

Relative to public library construction funding