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To repeal archaic laws criminalizing pregnancy
Enhancing the issuance of citations for cruel conditions for animals
To prevent child labor exploitation and trafficking
To eliminate barriers and expand abortion access
To provide continuum of care for severe mental illness
Requiring the reporting of satisfaction of judgments awarding money damages
Relative to violations of the United States Constitution under color of law
Protecting access to justice
Relative to bonded warehouses
To protect survivors of spousal abuse from alimony liability
To eliminate disparate impact
Relative to violent or sexual offenses committed by those using the Emergency Assistance shelter system
Relative to capacity determination
Relative to preventing suicide
Relative to personal injury protection payments
Providing for equity within the judicial branch
Relative to summary process
Prohibiting deception in juvenile interrogations
Relative to hate crimes
To study the delivery of medical care to persons held in custody
Relative to increasing transparency in juvenile court proceedings
Relative to dangerousness hearings
Relative to the interception of wire and oral communications
Relative to controlling and abusive litigation
Strengthening GPS tampering Laws
Relative to the integrity of state data systems
Creating a law enforcement officer safety zone after warning
To reduce mass incarceration
Relative to caregiver authorization affidavits
Relating to threats of suicide while in court custody (Stavri’s Law)
To ensure fair access to compensation for victims of human trafficking and forced labor
Relative to constables in the commonwealth
Establishing medical civil rights
Protecting titles to real estate in Massachusetts
Relative to immigration detention and collaboration agreements
To further clear titles to real property affected by technical irregularities in recorded instruments
Relative to privileged communications in defamation actions
Enhancing access to abortion care
Improving juror compensation
To empower communities against environmental damage
Relative to repeat violent firearm offenders
Relative to probation violations
Clarifying a right of a durable power of attorney
Relative to consumer protection and civil rights
Clarifying the jurisdiction of the housing court department
Relative to due process
Relative to pre-adjudication credit for juvenile offenders
Encouraging the donation of food to persons in need
Criminalizing sexual assault of a passenger by a rideshare operator
Establishing a bill of rights for people experiencing homelessness
Extending the civil statute of limitations for child abuse
Ensuring access to equitable representation in immigration proceedings
Exonerating certain individuals accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
Establishing employee screening requirements in schools to prevent child sexual abuse
Relative to preventing immigration reporting and ensuring the right to legal counsel
Relative to access to justice
Relative to immigration detention and collaboration agreements
Ensuring access to equitable representation in immigration proceedings
Concerning the regulation of kratom
Regulating kratom sales in the Commonwealth (Ty's Bill)
Relative to treatment, not incarceration
To strengthen justice and support for sex trade survivors
Limiting the use of prison labor
Relative to preventing ocean littering
Relative to Gardner District Court
Relative to service of civil process fees
To stop profiling transgender people and low-income women
Relative to advertising for justices of the peace
Designating the Dorchester division of the Boston municipal court as the Judge Leslie E. Harris courthouse
Prohibiting anticompetitive conduct and agreements and strengthening the Massachusetts Antitrust Act
Relative to judicial security
Providing equity within the Judicial Branch
To modify the rules for taking depositions outside the Commonwealth and to adopt the uniform interstate depositions and discovery act
Requiring the relocation of the Cambridge District Court
Establishing the uniform interstate depositions and discovery act
Concerning equitable allocation of recovery proceeds for subrogation claims
To designate the courthouse in the Roxbury section of the city of Boston as the Edward O. Gourdin Courthouse
Establishing the Massachusetts Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act
Relative to advertising for justices of the peace
Relative to equitable court staffing
Designating the Charlestown division of Boston Municipal Court as the George Lewis Ruffin Courthouse
Specifying an electronic system to ensure that sales of certain products containing pseudoephedrine (PSE) do not exceed limits established under federal law
To strengthen laws combatting human trafficking and protecting survivors of modern-day slavery
Prohibiting body size discrimination
To prevent human trafficking through increased public awareness
To protect the privacy of 911 callers
Relative to rental protections for elderly, disabled and low-to-middle income tenants
To enhance the lives of survivors of human trafficking
To protect the free flow of information in Massachusetts
To prevent unscrupulous medical debt recovery practices
Extending the statute of limitations for certain actions involving international human rights abuses
Protecting minors from the creation of computer-generated child sexual abuse visual materials
Establishing a commission to study reparations in Massachusetts
To add sex and gender as protected classes for crime prosecutions
Promoting equity in traffic stops
Relative to minimizing suffering during the commitment process
Strengthening the commonwealth's Anti-SLAPP law
Relative to GPS tampering
Amending the statute of limitations regarding criminal prosecutions for the crimes of sexual assault and rape of a child
Codifying organizational standing to protect and promote civil rights
Relative to extend the statute of limitations for human trafficking
Relative to uniform partition of heirs property
Relative to the protection of vulnerable adults from sexual assault committed by mandated reporters, persons in a position of trust and providers of transportation
Relative to the well-being of new mothers and infants
Providing for the development of a graduate judicial training school
Relative to combating hate in the Commonwealth
Relative to housing court jurisdiction
Providing protection from child enticement
Relative to treatment, not incarceration
To further clear titles to real property affected by technical irregularities in recorded instruments
To further clear titles to real property affected by technical irregularities in recorded instruments
Relative to fair investment
Relative to the fair treatment of employees
To facilitate alternatives to foreclosure
Promoting motor vehicle safety
To increase transparency in the Massachusetts land record systems to protect the property rights of homeowners and businesses
Restoring a lower threshold for permit challenges
Relative to access to a decedent's electronic mail accounts
Promoting fairness in parole
For the removal of void restrictive covenants
Relative to life saving treatment
Promoting diversion of juveniles to community supervision and services
Improving juvenile justice data collection
Relative to the protection of small businesses and workers
Relative to unlawful practices in the servicing and foreclosure of a subordinate mortgage
Relative to rape by an officer
Prohibiting injurious operations or offering services or products that discriminate against or injure protected classes
Establishing a foreclosure review division
To amend the definition of hate crime
Relative to retirement reporting
Relative to the punishment of organized retail crimes
To provide equitable sentencing for felony murder
Relative to accomplice and joint venture criminal liability
Maintaining parity in legal services for small property owners
Relative to the designation of Jury Clerk in the Haverhill District Court
Relative to the victim compensation program
To protect victims of stalking in violation of harassment prevention orders
Preventing fires and secondhand smoke in non-smoking rental housing
Relative to civil remedies for sexual assault by an officer
Relative to offenses while driving on a non-administrative license suspension
To enhance fairness and increase positive outcomes for children
Relative to a humane response to a mental health crisis
Relative to prejudgment interest rates
To end lifetime parole for juveniles and emerging adults
Relative to removing criminal penalties for limited psilocybin possession
Clarifying the rights of fiduciaries to access digital assets
Relative to liability for accidents and collisions with vulnerable road users involving large motor vehicles and trailers
Establishing a sick leave bank for Shannon Manning, an employee of the trial court
Relating to threats of suicide while in court custody (Stavri’s Law)
Relative to GPS tampering
Regarding conditions of release in Superior Court
Relative to safety and justice
To update expungement
Relative to certain offenses
For fair compensation for erroneous felony conviction
Relative to community corrections
Relative to strengthening supports for overcomers of abuse
Establishing a sick leave bank for Amy Tanguay
Increasing first assistant clerks in Berkshire County
Relative to supporting survivors of child sexual abuse
To enhance state anti-trust powers and enforcement
Relative to the tracking of medical malpractice cases
Clarifying insurance liability for foster care providers
Addressing discriminatory police reporting
Supporting and honoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawful detainments (SHIELD Act)
To enhance the rights of crime victims in the Commonwealth
Relative to direct food donations
Protecting survivors of domestic abuse
Protecting honest employers by creating construction private attorney general actions
Relative to crimes relating to distribution of controlled substances causing death
Relative to safe driving and open containers
Relative to improving sexual violence survivor protections
To amend the foreclosure statute to require judicial foreclosure
Relative to public charity executive and board of directors compensation
Relative to defacing property
Relative to due process
Relative to recreational games at senior centers
To enhance the authority of courts to protect public safety
Establishing a right to freedom from doxing
To eliminate standard conditions in probation
Relative to fentanyl arrests
Relative to judicial discretion for probation
Relative to health care proxy reform
Ensuring an appropriate response to shoplifting
Relative to employees of private railroads
To enhance courthouse security
Establishing a domestic violence and sexual assault probation unit
To recover assets used in the commission of sexual offenses
Relative to juvenile fees, fines, and restitution
Relative to car theft with digital devices
To empower and protect survivors of domestic violence
To add law enforcement councils to the Massachusetts TORT Claims Act
Relative to judicial authority to maintain election integrity
Relative to clarifying check fraud jurisdiction and enhancing check washing penalties
Relative to the statute of limitations in rape, assault and human trafficking crimes
Relative to visitation and family court matters in domestic violence cases
Relative to judicial oversight
Updating bail procedures for justice-involved youth
Relative to protecting the people of the Commonwealth from danger
Relative to public safety, fiscal responsibility, and emergency assistance
Protecting real property from warrantless searches
Relative to the head injury treatment services trust fund
Prohibiting the malicious doxing of personal information
Regarding on behalf of orders
Regarding conditions of release in Superior Court
To protect unpaid interns, volunteers, and independent contractors from sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination
Relative to setting proportionate penalties for the distribution of heroin, fentanyl, and carfentanil
Reforming alimony in the Commonwealth
Relative to police reports involving railroad fatalities
Relative to bodily autonomy and family integrity
Relative to petit treason
Relative to illegal drug and firearm trafficking
Relative to forfeiture reform
Prohibiting the harassment of animals
To eliminate the public counsel fee
Relative to gift card tampering
Relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers
Relative to protecting the residents of the Commonwealth from dangerous persons
Updating the wiretap statutes in the commonwealth
Relative to the protection of police officers
Protecting bank employees and customers
Relative to juvenile offenders
Updating hunter harassment laws
Protecting survivors of rape and their children
To establish the Massachusetts judicial security act
Protecting victims of rape and their children
Honoring the value of personal property
Strengthening identity theft laws
To protect nonhuman primate infants in research institutions and product testing facilities
Relative to domestic violence reports and confidentiality
Relative to the ownership of pets by convicted animal abusers
Providing for the improvement of required standards of Clerk Magistrates
Relative to child-centered family law
Promoting pet safety aka Crawford's Law
Relative to treble damages
To provide a DNA exception for statute of limitations on sex offenses
Relative to enhancing hiring practices to prevent sexual abuse
To strengthen rules governing attorney conduct; penalties for misconduct
Resolve for a commission to review, replace, and eliminate the Grand Jury System
Relative to dangerousness hearings
To restore the statute of limitations for deaths due to tobacco use
Relative to determining the best interest of children in probate and family court
Clarifying the child advocate’s authority to access juvenile records
Supporting consenting young adults
Relative to determining the best interest of children in probate and family court
Designating right of disposition
Relative to visitation rights of grandparents
To protect victims of crimes and the public
Relative to appealing a notice of disinvitation
Relative to the humane protection of animals
Prohibiting discrimination against adults with disabilities in Family and Juvenile Court proceedings
Maintaining protective orders
To protect survivors of domestic violence
Relative to the partition of nominee trusts
Relative to protecting innocent sellers
Relative to the collateral consequences of alimony
To update proof of age documentation
Relative to the expungement of convictions for marijuana possession
Relative to strategic litigation against public participation
To address leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death aka Katie Brienzo's Law
Encouraging the donation of food to persons in need
Relative to retirement reporting
To assist the investigation of serious crimes
Relative to the interception of wire and oral communications
Relative to protecting the public from street takeovers
Ensuring law enforcement identification and public trust
Protecting victims of childhood sexual abuse and holding perpetrators accountable
Relative to fair investment
Relative to civil rights
Relative to the right to wear personal protective medical equipment
To improve enforcement of environmental quality
Prohibiting body size discrimination
To stop profiling transgender people and low-income women
Relative to penalties for crimes against seniors
To enhance the authority of courts to protect public safety
Establishing a commission to study reparations in Massachusetts
To cure us of the liabilities that ultimately restricted equity
To strengthen justice and support for sex trade survivors
Relative to public safety, fiscal responsibility, and emergency assistance
To amend the definition of hate crime
Regularizing sentencing for hate crimes
Relative to fairness in home sales
Protecting personal security
Providing increased protections from harassment and discrimination on the basis of height
To eliminate disparate impact
Supporting and honoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawful detainments (SHIELD Act)
Relative to combating hate in the Commonwealth
Relative to privileged communications
Relative to state compliance with detainer requests
To promote the health and safety of people in the sex trade
Relative to reaffirming the rights of individuals experiencing homelessness
Establishing a sick leave bank for Eric J. Iwaniec
Relative to witness intimidation
To reform the parole board
Related to Down syndrome
Enhancing access to abortion
Establishing reasonable limitations on the solitary confinement of inmates 21 years of age or younger
Relative to a humane response to a mental health crisis
Relative to psychological evaluations for persons considered a danger to themselves or others
Reforming juvenile offender law
To promote timely access to parole hearings
To promote correctional personnel safety
Relative to coerced abortion
Relative to unborn victims of violence
Related to educational programming for incarcerated emerging adults
Relative to civil commitments and the appeal of those commitments
Relative to emerging adult life sentences for first-degree murder
For second look
Relative to reforming the competency to stand trial process
Relative to possession of a dangerous weapon
Relative to corrections officer safety
Restoring the furlough program for incarcerated persons
To promote public safety and better outcomes for youth
To amend Section 35 of M.G.L. Ch. 123
To provide continuum of care for severe mental illness
To end lifetime parole for juveniles and emerging adults
Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to gender-responsive programming for juvenile justice system involved girls
Permitting the adoption of embryos
To end mandatory life without the possibility of parole for the age of 21-25 and 364 days
Relative to fetal homicide
Relative to abortion care for young people
Relative to prison reform
Relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker
Relative to Anti-SLAPP law reforms
Relative to service of civil process fees
Relative to nondisclosure agreements
Establishing a commission regarding the privacy of sensitive information in legal documents
Granting Indian tribes access to the Massachusetts courts
Relative to juror comprehension
Concerning nondisclosure agreements relative to sexual harassment and discrimination
Addressing compensation rates for bar advocates
To improve the election of certain court clerks
Increasing witness fees
Providing a stipend for first justices and regional administrative justices
Bringing the crime of leaving the scene of personal injury causing death within the jurisdiction of the district court
Relative to court filing fees
To improve contract provisions waiving certain rights
Relative to judicial compensation
Relative to transparency in clerk magistrate hearings
Designating the Chelsea District Courthouse as The Kevin G. Murphy Judicial Center
Addressing racial disparity in jury selection
Improving access to the Housing Court
Regarding district court jurisdiction of threats to use deadly weapons, explosives, chemical or biological agents, or other devices or substances capable of causing death, serious bodily injury or substantial property damage
Relative to judicial compensation
Providing for a study on the trial court department
Relative to district court jurisdiction
Establishing a jury duty exemption for breastfeeding parents
Improving juror compensation
Relative to the deposit of civil process fees
Relative to Winchendon District Court
Relative to jury duty parking fees
Permitting persons to bring car damage arising from a pothole against the public entity into small claims court
Relative to privileged communications in defamation actions
Increasing the dispute limit for small claims court
Relative to the safety of courthouses and remote court proceedings
Relative to juror service
Regulating fees for the registration of attorneys
Relative to prejudgment interest rates
To expand juvenile court justice access
Protecting first responders and enhancing access to behavioral health centers
Protecting employee free speech
Preventing animal cruelty
Relative to tort actions for latent diseases
Establishing a sick leave bank for Ana C. Contreras
Resolve creating a commission to study the intentional misrepresentation of a service animal
To ensure the responsible use of advanced robotic technologies
Relative to access to a decedent's electronic mail accounts
For uniform fiduciary access to digital assets
Relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker
Relative to the free flow of information
Relative to restraining orders as they pertain to hate crimes
To implement the recommendations of the special commission on facial recognition technology
To protect the privacy of 911 callers
Relative to unmanned aerial vehicles
Relative to the effective enforcement of municipal ordinances and by-laws
To advance hate-crime protections for victims who are targeted due to their gender
Strengthening health care protections in the Commonwealth
To safeguard judicial integrity through enhanced witness protection
Relative to supporting survivors of domestic violence and enhancing child welfare
Relative to establishing a special commission to study alimony
Relative to establishing a special commission to study child support
To eliminate parental alienation
Protecting assault survivors
Relative to the sex offender registry
Relative to expungement of certain past marijuana convictions
Supporting consenting young adults
Relative to fentanyl arrests (Tatiana's Law)
Relative to the reckless evasion of a police officer
Amending the statute of limitations relating to civil rights actions and criminal prosecutions for the sexual assault and rape of a child
Concerning assault of a sports official
Relative to eliminating liability limits for abuse of a minor
To simplify the administrative aspect of evidentiary use of medical information
Protecting employee free speech
Relative to leaving the scene of a collision
Relative to preventing the sexual abuse of children and youth
To prevent the imposition of mandatory minimum sentences based on juvenile adjudications
Relative to clarity and consistency for the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board
To prevent assaults on sports officials
Preventing false confessions
Relative to the charitable immunity cap for cases involving sexual abuse
Relative to the charitable immunity cap for cases involving sexual abuse
Increasing penalties for hit and runs with recreational vehicles in the Commonwealth to be known as the James Ward Act
Requiring clean slate automated record sealing
Protecting personal security
To modernize the roles and responsibilities of the victim and witness assistance board
To implement the recommendations of the special commission on facial recognition technology
Relative to forfeiture reform
Regarding probation violations
Concerning the disclosure of the home address and home contact information of certain public safety officials
To establish a DNA exception rule for victims of rape
Relative to archaic laws
To prevent the imposition of mandatory minimum sentences based on juvenile adjudications
To promote victim service funding
Providing for the allowance of early evidence kits
Promoting diversion of juveniles to community supervision and services
Relative to fentanyl test strips
Relative to justice for survivors
Relative to the age of consent in certain criminal prosecutions and civil actions for sexual assault and rape of a child
Relative to sexual assaults by adults in positions of authority or trust
Relative to the assault on and aggravated harassment of sports officials
Relative to expungement of juvenile and young adult records
Expanding access to victim compensation
Relative to governmental and charitable tort liability
Enhancing remedies for survivors of childhood sexual abuse
To remove collateral consequences and protect the presumption of innocence
Relative to authorizing electronic signatures for criminal complaints
To protect victims of stalking in violation of harassment prevention orders
Promoting fairness in youthful offender indictments
Updating the Commonwealth's wiretap statutes
Repealing the criminalization of blasphemy
Relative to assault and battery against healthcare personnel, school officials, and first responders
To implement recommendations of the Commission on structural racism in the parole process
Relative to compensation for victims of wrongful conviction
Relative to criminal harassment against a sports official
Relative to the expungement of non-convictions
Relative to sexual harassment
Enhancing remedies for survivors of childhood sexual abuse
Related to educational programming for incarcerated emerging adults
To implement recommendations of the commission on structural racism in the parole process
Providing civil legal remedies for victims of economic abuse
Relative to sexual harassment
To ensure the responsible use of advanced robotic technologies
Providing a defense to prosecution for violations of the wiretap law for interceptions made to make a record of threats, harassment or other crimes
Relative to civil asset forfeiture
Relative to kratom sales in the Commonwealth
Relative to the examination of evidence rooms and evidentiary procedures
Relative to the effective enforcement of municipal ordinances and by-laws
To modernize the roles and responsibilities of the victim and witness assistance board
Relative to authorizing electronic signatures for criminal complaints
Relative to preventing educator sexual misconduct and abuse of children and youth
Relative to sexual assaults by adults in positions of authority or trust
Concerning the arrest without a warrant of persons on probation and temporary custody
Establishing medical civil rights
Increasing penalties for the illegal sale and possession of firearms
Relative to domestic violence reports and confidentiality
Relative to noise reduction devices
Relative to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism
Relative to civil liability for protecting one’s home
Empowering student-athletes through NIL rights
Removing state funded counsel for sex offender classification hearings
Relative to abuse prevention
Establishing mandatory post release supervision in the Commonwealth
Relative to body worn cameras
Relative to Trial Court data collection
Prohibiting name-changing for registered sex offenders
To further protect employees through a private right of action
To extend statute of limitations for incest
To clarify the charitable purposes of certain organizations
Promoting equity in traffic stops
Ensuring the enforcement of mandatory minimums for firearm related crimes
To prevent child labor exploitation and trafficking
Providing transparency in third party litigation financing
Improving juvenile justice data collection
To prevent aiding, supporting, or enticing a child to runaway
Relative to juvenile fines, fees, and restitution
Preventing rampant online technological exploitation and criminal trafficking
For the Youth Court Justice Fund
To address arbitration and litigation relief
Relative to juvenile restitution
Relative to adoptions
Eliminating the statute of limitation in civil child sexual abuse cases
Protecting children from domestic violence
Relative to illegal drug and firearm trafficking
To increase efficiency in custody determinations
Providing civil legal remedies for victims of economic abuse
To protect victims of rape and children conceived during the commission of said offense
Prohibiting motor vehicle tracking devices without consent
Relative to air traffic safety
Relative to the expansion of the Good Samaritan Law
Relative to due process
To adopt the uniform family law arbitration act
Relative to sex offenders
Relative to increasing racial diversity among judges in Massachusetts
Requiring only a justice to remove a trial default of a defendant who fails to appear at trial
Relative to prison mitigation
Relative to the designation of jury clerk in the Haverhill District Court
Banning the use of tear gas by law enforcement
Relative to fentanyl test strips
Relative to police use of epinephrine autoinjectors
Relative to compensation for victims of wrongful conviction
Promoting fairness in youthful offender indictments
To enhance the availability of immunity to witnesses in the courts of the Commonwealth
Relative to civil asset forfeiture transparency and data reporting
Relative to bodily autonomy and family integrity
Relative to profits from crime
Ensuring equitable access to cannabis related expungement
To amend the civil rights law, in relation to reporting a non-emergency incident involving a member of a protected class
Protecting honest employers by creating construction private attorney general actions
Relative to civil asset forfeiture improvements
To respect and protect domestic violence and sexual assault victims and survivors
Relative to court approved parent education program
Strengthening sexual harassment and discrimination policies in the Commonwealth
Relative to harassment prevention orders
Enhancing protections for sexual violence survivors
Relative to controlling and abusive litigation
Relative to identifying costs associated with legal counsel for classification hearings
Titled Justina's law
Enhancing the issuance of citations for cruel conditions for animals
Establishing a commission to study judicial accountability in the Commonwealth
To prevent aiding, supporting, or enticing a child to runaway
Relative to the Commonwealth’s right to appeal bail decisions
Removing barriers to the expungement of records
Relative to domestic abuse protection, "Katherine's Law"
To track the implementation of the Brangan ruling
Relative to drug induced homicide
Prohibiting level 3 sex offenders from residing together
Protecting youth during custodial interrogations
Relative to wiretapping in the Commonwealth
Relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers
Removing barriers to justice in the workplace
To protect victims of rape and children conceived during the commission of said offense
Known as "Drug Test Consent Bill" aka "Christina's Law"
Relative to protecting cats and dogs from slaughter
Amending the victim of violent crime compensation law
To ban the release of balloons
Regulating sex offender registration in the 21st century
Relative to life without parole
Relative to selling tattooing, branding, body piercing kit or device to an unlicensed body art practitioner or minor
Relative to fires and explosions
Relative to high speed chases
To remove collateral consequences and protect the presumption of innocence
Relative to drug induced homicide
Relative to criminal disposition of limited psilocybin possession offenses
Relative to penalties for unlicensed work
Relative to the protection of vulnerable adults from sexual assault committed by mandated reporters, persons in a position of trust, and providers of transportation
Relative to criminal investigations
Clarifying the child advocate’s authority to access juvenile records
Relative to the intimidation of witnesses and interfering with justice
To improve transparency in alleged police misconduct
To prohibit the sale of "energy drinks" to persons under the age of 18
Relative to school bus stop safety
Updating and clarifying the statute relating to “upskirting”
Relative to throwing objects at motor vehicles
Increasing the liability for permitting an intoxicated arrestee to operate a motor vehicle
Resolutions providing for the ratification of the child labor amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
To define inducing a minor into prostitution
Relative to petit treason
Maintaining the integrity of sex offender classifications
Relative to police reports involving railroad fatalities
Relative to the repeal or reform of certain unenforceable or unconstitutional archaic laws on religion, piety, and morality
Relative to law enforcement access to prescription monitoring data
Relative to a temporary possession ban of animals for animal abusers
Relative to structured settlement payment protections
Relative to pre-adjudication credit for juvenile offenders
Establishing presumptive parole
To study the delivery of medical care to persons held in custody
To eliminate standard conditions in probation
Repealing the criminalization of blasphemy
Repealing homophobic and transphobic laws
To enhance the rights of crime victims in the commonwealth
Relative to strengthen the Commonwealth's Anti-SLAPP law
Regarding on behalf orders
To modernize public liability
Establishing a permanent commission to study the service standards for sexual assault and domestic violence service providers
Relative to the enticement of children online
To encourage quality reviews and reduce costs in health care
Preventing an individual’s image and voice from exploitation
Relative to the protection of children
Relative to parental visitation and custody for children of rape victims
Relative to CORI fees
Relative to justice for survivors
Relative to the transfer of the Victim Compensation Fund
Prohibiting deception in juvenile interrogations
Relative to eliminating cashless bail
Relative to the reliability of testifying informants
To protect children in extreme temperatures
Establishing a special legislative commission to study the use of IVRs and other strategies by social media platforms
Relative to judicial discretion for probation
Decriminalizing non-violent and verbal student misconduct
Relative to independent prepaid legal services plans
Relative to stop fraudulent representation of business against performers
Requiring blood testing for a surviving drivers
Establishing statewide standards for sexual assault and domestic violence service providers
Relative to locating missing persons via mobile data (Kelsey's Bill)
To ban phishing
Relative to the malicious doxing of personal information
Relative to the penalty for disorderly persons
Relative to safe reporting
Relative to the protection of small businesses and workers
To further protect children
Relative to drug distribution causing death
Relative to aggressive panhandling on or adjacent to public ways
Prohibiting child sex dolls
Relative to the indemnity of public employees
Relative to patient care access
Concerning a right of publicity
For informed consent In public health
To ensure all Massachusetts litigants due process of law
Relative to establishing an animal abuse registry
Establishing a self-defense exception
Protecting survivors of rape and their children
Relative to the reckless discharge of firearms
Promoting fairness in parole
To enhance fairness and increase positive outcomes for children
Specifying an electronic system to ensure that sales of certain products containing pseudoephedrine (PSE) do not exceed limits established under federal law
Preventing false confessions
Relative to employees of private railroads
Regarding willful injury to public defenders and other court personnel
To reduce mass incarceration
Relative to tenant data privacy
Relative to a ban on Kratom
Prohibiting electronic tracking of motor vehicles
Relative to removing criminal penalties for limited psilocybin possession
Relative to expungement of juvenile and young adult records
Protecting minors from the creation of computer-generated child sexual abuse visual materials
To protect electronic privacy
Relative to expanding protections against incest
To protect nonhuman primate infants in research institutions and product testing facilities
To require liability insurance for gun ownership
To establish a program to improve communications between local law enforcement and crime victims in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Relative to pill press machines
To stop mass shootings
To enhance protections against child exploitation and misuse of emerging technologies
Relative to the release of sex offender information to victims
Relative to protecting domestic violence victims
Establishing an internet bill of rights
Establishing a task force to study equitable access to psilocybin and other entheogenic plants
To ensure fair access to compensation for victims of human trafficking and forced labor
Relative to pill press machines
Requiring clean slate automated record sealing
Criminalizing sexual assault of a passenger by a rideshare operator
Prohibiting court ordered visitation rights to any persons convicted of criminal offenses against a minor
Providing for the allowance of early evidence kits
Relative to the concealment of the death of children and the penalties for the sale or purchase of minor children
Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution for a Constitutional right to health care
Encouraging the donation of food to persons in need
Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution to define the succession plan for a vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor
Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution relative to changing the mandatory age of retirement for judges
Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution to define the succession plan for a vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor
Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution relative to oaths of office
Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution for term renewal process
Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution prohibiting eminent domain takings
Relative to the Massachusetts Uniform Trust Decanting Act
Providing protections against predatory guardianship
To enforce support orders for adult children in need of support
Relative to the efficient management and operation of the registries of probate
Establishing the Massachusetts Uniform Trust Decanting Act
Improving medical decision making
Related to indigency
Improving medical decision making
Relative to adoptions
Relative to health care proxies
Relative to the uniform voidable transactions act
Relative to wagering on political outcomes
To enforce support orders for adult children in need of support
Relative to the efficient management and operation of the registries of probate
Standardizing consideration of pets in divorce and separation
Removing the charitable immunity cap
Relative to archaic laws
Related to indigency
Concerning furnishing transcripts of notes and fees
Establishing medical panels for the probate and family court department
Relative to a commission to study the intentional misrepresentation of a service animal
Concerning furnishing transcripts of notes and fees
To improve grandparent visitation rights
Relative to protection of a deceased family member against foreclosure and other civil action
Modernizing child support
Relative to rent escrow
Regarding the quantum of proof in care and protection and termination of parental rights cases
Relative to determining the best interest of children in probate and family court
Relative to rent escrow
Resolve establishing a durable power of attorney review commission
Increasing parental involvement with childcare
Clarifying a right of a durable power of attorney
Relative to voluntary personal representatives
Relative to determining capacity and invoking the health care proxy
Relative to the uniform child custody jurisdiction and enforcement act
To protect survivors of spousal abuse from alimony liability
Relative to child custody when either parent is on active military duty
Relative to judgment for alimony
Relative to preventing suicide
Designating right of disposition
Relative to child custody
Improving legal and administrative proceedings for court-involved children and families
Relative to appealing a notice of disinvitation
Relative to the collateral consequences of alimony
Relative to shared parenting
For providing for the training, continuing training, and education of judges, and other legal hearing officers
Standardizing consideration of pets in divorce and separation
Improving medical decision making
Updating hunter harassment laws
Relative to healthcare proxies
To eliminate the charitable immunity cap
Relative to grandparent visitation rights
Relative to the elective share of surviving spouses
Prohibiting discrimination against adults with disabilities in Family and Juvenile Court proceedings
Relative to health care proxy storage and activation
Relative to child-centered family law
Relative to uniform partition of heirs property
Relative to the tax status of alimony
Expanding homestead protections
Relative to ensuring the equitable protection of homestead
Relative to uniform real property electronic recordings
Protecting tenants from retaliation and coercion
Further protecting tenants
To ensure backyard privacy
Further regulating the discharge of fireworks in densely populated neighborhoods
Relative to small landlords
Establishing a foreclosure review division
Relative to streamline the judicial review of local land use decisions
Relative to violent offenders in shelter waiver
Relative to the defense of private property rights through the prevention of abusive eminent domain takings in the Commonwealth
To promote free tastings of homemade products at farmer's markets
Relative to landlords accountability with regard to drug houses
Relative to transfer of actions to the housing court
Relative to the well-being of new mothers and infants
Relative to the land court permit session
Relative to historic homes
To expedite the transfer of cases to the permit session of land court
Establishing a mandatory sentence for destruction, defacement or damage to burial tombs and grave markers
To promote housing stability
To create the office of the tenant advocate in the Office of the Attorney General
Relative to foreclosure mediation
For the removal of void restrictive covenants
Promoting access to counsel and housing stability in Massachusetts
Relative to notice of contract, dissolution of lien
Relative to prohibiting eviction without good cause
Relative to rental protections for elderly, disabled and low-to-middle income tenants
Protecting titles to real estate in Massachusetts
Relative to summary process
Relative to unlawful practices in the servicing and foreclosure of a subordinate mortgage
Addressing squatter’s rights
Relative to written real estate service agreements
Relative to proportionality in joint venture sentencing
To promote public safety and better outcomes for youths
Relative to the definition of strangulation
To protect children from adults in positions of authority or trust
Relative to unsolved homicides
Regarding human nature
Relative to trials for personal injuries involving a motor vehicle accident
Relative to the theft of bulk merchandise containers
Relative to the reckless operation of motor vehicles
Relative to solicitation of a juvenile under eighteen to commit murder
Ensuring the safety and dignity of first responders (Halo Act)
Relative to gift card fraud
Relative to domestic violence Kianna's Law
Relative to Proportionality in Joint Venture Sentencing
Relative to capital punishment for the murder of law enforcement officers
To enhance safety and security in courthouses
Increasing penalties for certain violent acts
Relative to false reporting of an emergency
To restore the statute of limitations for wrongful death claims
Eliminating mandatory minimum sentences related to drug offenses
Relative to the Head Injury Treatment Services Trust Fund
Relative to school and public threats
Establishing penalties for the filing of false reports against police officers
To protect the confidentiality of journalistic news sources and information
Restoring judicial discretion in controlled substance cases
Establishing a special commission on check washing crimes
Requiring the inclusion of certain civil rights offense information in the statewide domestic violence recordkeeping system
Relative to car theft with digital devices
Relative to check fraud prevention
ERPO Study Commission
Relative to drug driving
Relative to felony threshold for multiple theft offenses
Relative to long-term protection of victims of violence
To require restitution for a child whose parent is killed by a drunk driver
Regarding joint venture
To protect the citizens of the Commonwealth from drunk drivers
Protecting bank employees and customers
Relative to violent crimes
To ensure the ability to prosecute repeat OUI offenses
Relative to the definition of attempted murder
To protect victims of stalking in violation of harassment prevention orders
Repealing an ill-considered family law statute
Establishing a sick leave bank for Robert Tiro, an employee of the trial court of the commonwealth
Relative to the uniform child custody jurisdiction and enforcement act
Establishing a sick leave bank for Andrew Setera, an employee of the trial court
Relative to child protection
Establishing a sick leave bank for Eric J. Iwaniec
Relative to adoptions
Relative to adoptions
Establishing a sick leave bank for Tamara M. Luciani, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth
To establish a pilot program to improve communications between local law enforcement and victims in Middlesex County
Relative to the designation of Jury Clerk in the Haverhill District Court
Modernizing firearm laws
Establishing a sick leave bank for Ana C. Contreras
To establish a sick leave bank for Kathleen Donnellan, an employee of the Norfolk Superior Court
Relative to the financial statement review and financial statement audit thresholds for Massachusetts public charities
Relative to suicide prevention signage at certain facilities
Establishing a sick leave bank for Mary Katherine Sheehan, an employee of the Trial Court
Establishing a sick leave bank for Mary Katherine Sheehan, an employee of the trial court
Relative to police reports involving railroad fatalities
To cure us of the liabilities that ultimately restricted equity
Concerning the legalization of certain natural plants and fungi
Relative to plant medicine
Relative to the Massachusetts Uniform Trust Decanting Act
Amending the victim of violent crime compensation law
Relative to preventing educator sexual misconduct and abuse of children and youth
Relative to the availability of court interpreters
Designating the Charlestown division of Boston Municipal Court as the George Lewis Ruffin Courthouse
Prohibiting body size discrimination
For fair compensation for erroneous felony conviction
To protect victims and the public from sexual assault and other violent crimes
Relative to compensation for victims of wrongful conviction
Relative to dangerousness hearings
Relative to compensation for victims of wrongful conviction
Relative to treatment, not imprisonment
Concerning the regulation of Kratom
Providing for equity within the judicial branch
Encouraging the donation of food to persons in need
Encouraging the donation of food to persons in need
Relative to police reports involving railroad fatalities
To promote public safety and better outcomes for young adults
Relative to preventing suicide
Strengthening the penalty for assault or assault and battery on emergency medical technician, ambulance operator, ambulance attendant or health care provider
To stop profiling transgender people and low-income women
Related to educational programming for incarcerated emerging adults
Relative to the Head Injury Treatment Services Trust Fund
Establishing medical civil rights
To ensure the responsible use of advanced robotic technologies
To ensure the responsible use of advanced robotic technologies
Concerning furnishing transcripts of notes and fees
Extending the civil statute of limitations for child abuse
Prohibiting body size discrimination
Establishing the Environmental Justice Trust Fund
Relative to software legal agreements
To provide sentencing parity in criminal law
Authorizing the town of Hopkinton to take by eminent domain certain easements in the town of Milford for the repair and maintenance of the Lake Maspenock Dam
Relative to the Assistant Clerks of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County
Regarding joint venture
Creating an independent correctional oversight office to facilitate the recommendations of the Special Legislative Commission on Structural Racism in Correctional Facilities of the Commonwealth
For second look
To provide equitable sentencing for felony murder
Relative to the well-being of new mothers and infants
Promoting safe dog ownership
Preventing false confessions
To create the office of the tenant advocate in the Office of the Attorney General
Preventing rampant online technological exploitation and criminal trafficking
Relative to guardian ad litems
Relative to healthcare proxy information
To increase the protection of homestead
Relative to special immigrant juveniles
Relative to service of process
Relative to jurisdiction in paternity actions
Relative to certified translations
Relative to standard procedures in probate court
Relative to penalties for crimes against seniors
Relative to legislative witness tampering
Improving legal and administrative proceedings for court-involved children and families
Relative to high speed chases
To further protect employees through a private right of action
Relative to due process
Updating hunter harassment laws
Resolve establishing a durable power of attorney review commission
Relative to restraining orders as they pertain to hate crimes
Modernizing notary services
Relative to noise reduction devices
Relative to the Commonwealth’s right to appeal bail decisions
Relative to streamline the judicial review of local land use decisions
Relative to the reporting of certain violations
Protecting bank employees and customers
Addressing racial disparity in jury selection
Relative to locating missing persons via mobile data (Kelsey's Bill)
Regularizing sentencing for hate crimes
To assist the investigation of serious crimes
Relative to life without parole
Relative to uniform partition of heirs property
Relative to studying the establishment of a statewide registry of persons convicted for the sale or trafficking of certain class A drugs
Relative to throwing objects at motor vehicles
Establishing penalties for the filing of false reports against police officers
Improving juvenile justice data collection
Regarding willful injury to public defenders and other court personnel
To prevent aiding, supporting, or enticing a child to runaway
Relative to the composition of the Victim and Witness Assistance Board
Relative to the definition of attempted murder
Relative to expanding protections against incest
Relative to judicial security act
Relative to summary process and rental assistance
Relative to capital punishment for the murder of law enforcement officers
Relative to drug distribution causing death
Relative to transparency in clerk magistrate hearings
Relative to illegal drug and firearm trafficking
Restoring judicial discretion in controlled substance cases
Relative to bail fees
Relative to stop fraudulent representation of business against performers
Relative to judicial discretion for probation
Maintaining parity in legal services for small property owners
Relative to sentencing guidelines
To ensure backyard privacy
Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to gender-responsive programming for juvenile justice system involved girls
Relative to expungement of certain past marijuana convictions
Relative to corrections officer safety
Relative to uniform real property electronic recordings
Establishing a jail and prison construction moratorium
Preventing unnecessary vacancies in foreclosed homes
Relative to child custody
Bringing the crime of leaving the scene of personal injury causing death within the jurisdiction of the district court
Relative to court approved parent education program
To improve after hours bail procedures
Relative to telephone service for inmates in all correctional and other penal institutions in the Commonwealth
Relative to drug driving
Providing a stipend for first justices and regional administrative justices
Relative to cash payments
Relative to parentage to promote children's security
Relative to supporting survivors of child sexual abuse
Updating bail procedures for justice-involved youth
Improving medical decision making
Relative to forfeiture reform
Enhancing the issuance of citations for cruel conditions for animals
To strengthen justice and support for sex trade survivors
To stop profiling transgender people and low-income women
Relative to forfeiture reform
Relative to civil asset forfeiture
Relative to the protection of vulnerable adults from sexual assault committed by mandated reporters, persons in a position of trust and providers of transportation
Prohibiting discrimination against adults with disabilities in family and juvenile court proceedings
To ensure access to medical cannabis for visiting qualifying patients
Relative to the expungement of non-convictions
Establishing medical civil rights
Relative to the uniform child custody jurisdiction and enforcement act
Relative to the addition of sex and gender as a protected class category for crime prosecutions
Establishing a sick leave bank for Tiffany Brennan, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth
To further clear titles to real property affected by technical irregularities in recorded instruments
Establishing a sick leave bank for Danielle Marie Cruz, an employee of the trial court
Establishing a bill of rights for people experiencing homelessness
Relative to domestic violence Kianna's Law
Increasing penalties for hit and runs with recreational vehicles in the Commonwealth to be known as the James Ward Act
Related to indigency
Related to indigency
To implement the recommendations of the special commission on facial recognition technology
Relative to nonprofit board member compensation
Require the reporting of satisfaction of judgments awarding money damages
Relative to uniform partition of heirs property
Establishing the Environmental Justice Trust Fund
Promoting motor vehicle safety
Relative to the well-being of new mothers and infants
To update proof of age documentation
Relative to the malicious doxing of personal information
To enhance courthouse security
To improve after hours bail procedures
Relative to visitation and family court matters in domestic violence cases
To address leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death aka Katie Brienzo's Law
Relative to the preservation of certain appellate rights
Strengthening identity theft laws
Relative to the collateral consequences of alimony
To protect election workers
Incentivizing the use of public transportation by jurors
Resolve for a commission to review, replace, and eliminate the Grand Jury System
Relative to advertising for justices of the peace
Relative to rental protections for elderly, disabled and low-to-middle income tenants
Relative to child custody orders
To remove collateral consequences and protect the presumption of innocence
Relative to protecting innocent sellers
To add law enforcement councils to the Massachusetts TORT Claims Act
To modernize the roles and responsibilities of the victim and witness assistance board
To update expungement
Concerning the arrest without a warrant of persons on probation and temporary custody
Protecting black girls from targeted toxicity
Establishing the right of disposition
To empower and protect survivors of domestic violence
Providing protection from child enticement
To eliminate the public counsel fee
Relative to strategic litigation against public participation
Relative to employees of private railroads
Improving access to fentanyl test strips and other drug checking equipment
To strengthen rules governing attorney conduct; penalties for misconduct
Relative to the expansion of the Good Samaritan law
Relating to costs of appeals by the Commonwealth
Establishing a special commission relative to the uniformity of sex offender residency restrictions in the Commonwealth
Relative to hate crimes
Protecting bank employees and customers
Relative to diversion for primary caretakers
Supporting survivors of trafficking and abuse and encouraging increased access to opportunities through expungement and/or sealing of records
Prohibiting gunfire directed at dwelling houses
To enhance state anti-trust powers and enforcement
Improving juvenile justice data collection
Improving protections for sexual assault survivors
Relative to minimizing suffering during the commitment process
Establishing a sick leave bank for Seila Chhav, an employee of the Trial Court.
Establishing a sick leave bank for Corinne Senna
Relative to coercive control occurring between family or household members
Relative to transmitting indecent visual depictions by teens and the unlawful distribution of explicit images
Decriminalizing fentanyl test strips
To protect victims of coercive control
Establishing a sick leave bank for Paul O'Brien, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth
Establishing a sick leave bank for William Donahue, an employee of the trial court
Facilitating restitution against unfinished development to be known as the FRAUD Act
Restoring judicial discretion in controlled substance cases
Establishing a sick leave bank for Meredith Mingolelli-Cotter
Establishing a sick leave bank for Christopher Trigilio, an employee of the trial court