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Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ votes on one roll call from the week of Feb. 26 to March 1. There were no roll calls in the Senate last week.Use interest from Rainy Day Fund to leverage federal funds (H 4446) The House, 154-0,...

By BOB KATZEN

There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reviews local senators’ votes in the 2023-2024 on several proposals to raise or lower taxes. Included are comments from legislators and others at the time the...

By BOB KATZEN

There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week.Beacon Hill Roll Call’s research shows that so far there are at least 11 bills that have been approved unanimously by the Senate in 2023 but are languishing in the House Ways and Means...

By BOB KATZEN

There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week.This week Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on some of the bills that were approved by the 2023-2024 Legislature through Feb. 9, 2024, and signed into law by Gov. Maura Healey.Of the more than...

By BOB KATZEN

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of Jan. 29 to Feb. 2. There were no roll calls in the House.Approve firearms bill (S 2572) The Senate, 37-3, approved a bill that would change the state’s gun laws. The...

By BOB KATZEN

There were no roll calls in the House and Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on the number of times each representative sided with Gov. Maura Healey on her 24 vetoes of mostly state budget items in the 2023 legislative...

By BOB KATZEN

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators’ votes from the week of Jan. 15 to Jan. 19. There were no roll calls in the House last week.Ban declawing of cats (S 2552) The Senate, 39-0, approved and sent to the House a bill that would prohibit...

By BOB KATZEN

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators’ and representatives’ votes from the week of Jan. 8 to Jan. 12.Revenge porn and teen sexting (H 4241) The House, 151-0, approved and sent to the Senate a proposal that would prohibit the posting of...

By BOB KATZEN

There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week.This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on the number of times in the 2023 session each senator sided with Democratic Gov. Maura Healey and voted to sustain/support the governor’s vetoes of 24...

By BOB KATZEN

There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on the percentage of times local representatives voted with their party’s leadership in the 2023 session through Dec. 22.The votes of the 2023...

By BOB KATZEN

There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on the percentage of times local senators voted with their party’s leadership in the 2023 session through Dec. 15.Beacon Hill Roll Call uses 97 votes...

By BOB KATZEN

There were no roll call votes in the House or Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports local senators’ roll call attendance records for the 2023 session through Dec. 8.The Senate has held 99 roll calls so far in the 2023 session....

By BOB KATZEN

There were no roll call votes in the House or Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports local representatives’ roll call attendance records for the 2023 session through Dec. 1.The House has held 70 roll calls so far in 2023. Beacon...

By BOB KATZEN

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators’ votes from recent sessions. There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week.Create commission to examine shelter system (S 5250) The Senate, 39-0, approved an amendment creating a bipartisan...

By BOB KATZEN

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes from the week of Nov. 13 to Nov. 17.Long-term care changes (H 4178) The House, 158-0, approved and sent to the Senate legislation that supporters say will “take a comprehensive...

By BOB KATZEN

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ votes from the week of Nov. 6 to Nov. 10. There were no roll calls in the Senate last week.Free phone calls for prisoners (H 4051) The House, 132-26, and the Senate, on a voice vote without a roll...

By BOB KATZEN

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes from recent roll calls on overriding Gov. Maura Healey’s veto of several items in the $56.2 billion fiscal year 2024 budget.$774,000 for housing services (H 4040) The House,...

By BOB KATZEN

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes from recent roll calls on overriding Gov. Maura Healey’s veto of several items in the $56.2 billion fiscal year 2024 budget.$2.5 million for Home and Healthy for Good Program (H...

By BOB KATZEN

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes from the week of Sept. 25 to 29.Legislature approves tax relief package (H 4104) The House, 155-1, and the Senate, 38-1, approved and sent to Gov. Maura Healey the conference...

By BOB KATZEN

There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week.Tax reduction packages stuck in committee It’s been three months since the House and Senate created a conference committee to hammer out a compromise version of different tax relief packages...