State legislature
Massachusetts
Official Massachusetts bill text, status, plain English summaries, and bill-history notes tied back to the General Court's own records.
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2025
60 bills shown
HD6252Active
An Act relative to Great Brook State Park Trust Fund
SD3816Active
An Act conforming with the electoral count reform act of 2022 and ensuring uniform faithful presidential electors
Elections
HD6038Active
An Act amending the sick leave bank for Matthew McRae, an employee of the department of state police
Labor
HD6180Active
An Act providing for tenant representation on the Great Barrington Housing Authority board
Housing
SD3936Active
An Act authorizing the South Deerfield Fire District to continue the employment of fire department member Steven Kolakoski
SD3961Active
An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to take easements over certain land located in the city of Woburn and the town of Burlington held in trust by the city of Boston for the Mary P. C. Cummings Testamentary Trust
HD6165Active
An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Andrew Bartlett, an employee of the department of public health
Labor
HD6241Active
An Act providing for the filling of a vacancy on the Groton-Dunstable School Committee
EducationElections
HD4740Active
An Act creating a Legion of Merit license plate
SD4013Active
An Act authorizing the Buzzards Bay Water District to convey non-exclusive easements over a certain parcel of land
SD4014Active
An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game to convey easements over certain parcels of land
HD5036Active
An Act regulating condominium associations and management companies
HD6217Active
An Act relative to the retirement benefits of the surviving spouse of the Honorable Francis Flannery
SD3846Active
An Act providing for improved public access and climate resiliency on the Mystic River and increasing the utilization of the designated port area
HD6206Active
An Act authorizing the Adams Fire District to allow firefighters to continue to serve past the age of 65
HD6140Active
An Act relative to the Pilgrim Memorial Park in Plymouth
SD3862Active
An Act relative to the Pilgrim Memorial Park in Plymouth
HD4385Active
An Act expanding the treatment of cleft palate and cleft lip
H1Active
An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions, and certain activiti... SECTION 1. To provide for the operations of the several departments, boards, commissions and institutions and other services of the commonwealth, and for certain permanent ...
BudgetLaborTaxes
H10Active
An Act relative to nondisclosure agreements SECTION 1. Chapter 151B of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 10 the following new sections:- Section 11 ... (a) Notwithstanding any general or special ...
EducationLabor
H100Active
An Act establishing a commission to study a statewide credentialing program for digital navigators SECTION 1. (a) The Massachusetts General Court shall establish a Massachusetts Digital Navigation Commission to study and make recommendations on ways to address the inequity of ...
HousingLabor
H1000Active
An Act establishing a coastal waters wastewater financing commission Notwithstanding any general or special laws to the contrary, there shall be established a special legislative commission to evaluate and identify specific revenue sources to fund ...
Taxes
H1001Active
An Act create a crumbling foundations task force with the goal of identifying a source and method of funding SECTION 1. There shall be a task force to study and propose recommendations to create a fund to assist homeowners that struggle with crumbling foundations ...
H1002Active
An Act relative to the Douglas State Forest Maintenance Trust Fund Section 35BBB of chapter 10 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the figure “$1” and inserting in place thereof the ...
H1003Active
An Act relative to maintaining adequate water supplies through effective drought management Chapter 21A of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 2A the following section:- Section 2B ... (a) There shall be within the office a drought management task ...
H1004Active
An Act promoting climate safe buildings SECTION 1. Chapter 143 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 93 the following section:- Section 93A ... Definitions As used in sections ninety-two to one ...
H1005Active
An Act investing in natural and working lands SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 21N of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the definition of “Nature-based solutions ...
H1006Active
An Act relative to incentives for nature as a climate solution There shall be a task force to investigate and make recommendations on new or expanded policy for incentive-based approaches to increasing carbon removal and sequestration by ...
H1007Active
An Act to provide for housing within the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest Chapter 21 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section:- Section 68 ... The department shall make available housing without charge to the superintendent of ...
Housing
H1008Active
An Act creating the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest Trust Fund Chapter 92 of the General Laws are hereby amended by inserting after section 34D the following section:- “Section 34E: Notwithstanding any general or special law or ...
H1009Active
An Act to overcome coastal and environmental acidification and nutrient pollution SECTION 1. Chapter 6 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after Section 15LLLLLL the following section:- Section 15MMMMMM ... The governor shall annually issue a ...
H101Active
An Act establishing free broadband internet access in public housing SECTION 1. Chapter 111 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section:- Section 239 ... The United Nations has declared health a fundamental human right ...
BudgetHousing
H1010Active
An Act relative to the use of shotguns Section 66 of chapter 131 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2012 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking the section in its entirety and replacing it with the ...
H1011Active
An Act relative to critical wildlife habitat management Section 2A of Chapter 131 of the Massachusetts General Laws, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking the section in its entirety and inserting in ...
H1012Active
An Act relative to further testing after a CSO event SECTION 1. Section 43A of chapter 21 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after subsection (f) the following subsection ...
H1013Active
An Act establishing the municipal reforestation program SECTION 1. Chapter 21A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following section:- Section 28 ... At least one member of the ...
H1014Active
An Act establishing a climate change superfund SECTION 1. The General Laws are hereby amended by inserting after Chapter 21O the following chapter: CHAPTER 21P CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION COST RECOVERY ACT Section 1 ...
H1015Active
An Act to require producer responsibility for collection, reuse and recycling of discarded electronic products SECTION 1. The General Laws are hereby amended by inserting after chapter 21O the following chapter:- CHAPTER 21P ... Section 1. As used in this chapter the following words shall ...
H1016Active
An Act relative to hunting on Sunday SECTION 1. Section 57 of chapter 131 of the Massachusetts General Laws is hereby repealed ... By Representative Pease of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1016) of ...
H1017Active
An Act to provide priority antlerless deer permits for disabled veteran hunters SECTION 1. The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife shall amend its regulations to grant priority access to Antlerless Deer Permits (ADPs) for veteran hunters who have ...
H1018Active
An Act updating the management of the Commonwealth's water resources SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 21G of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the definition of “Permit” the ...
H1019Active
An Act relative to the reduction of plastics Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Bag”, a container made of flexible ...
H102Active
An Act relative to protecting the residents of the Commonwealth Chapter 7D of the Massachusetts General Laws is hereby amended to add the following new section: Section 12: (a). Definitions: (1) “Social Media Company” - A social ...
Technology
H1020Active
An Act to improve the review and regulation of emerging contaminants on public water systems Section 160 of Chapter 111 of the Massachusetts General Laws shall be amended to include the following: SECTION 1. For purposes of this act, Maximum Contaminant Level or MCL ...
H1021Active
An Act relative to local protection of water resources from nutrient pollution SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 128 of the General Laws, as amended by section 1 of chapter 262 of the acts of 2012, is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:- (l ...
H1022Active
An Act relative to meeting the Commonwealth's water infrastructure future SECTION 1. To provide for a capital outlay program to rehabilitate, produce and modernize state-aided water infrastructure throughout the Commonwealth, the sums set forth in ...
H1023Active
An Act to establish a mattress recycling program in the Commonwealth SECTION 1. Definitions 1. “Brand” shall mean a name, symbol, word or mark that attributes a mattress as the producer of the mattress ... track and document the fate of program ...
H1024Active
An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon SECTION 1. Subject to receipt of all approvals required under section 2 and following satisfaction of all procedures adopted by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority ...
H1025Active
An Act addressing noise issues of migratory game hunters near coastal dwellings SECTION 1. Section 58 of chapter 131 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting the following words after "thereof ... "Provided further that any persons hunting migratory game ...
H1026Active
An Act establishing a special commission to study the noise effects of hunting migratory game birds in neighborhoods and communities within establish... SECTION 1. There is hereby established a special commission to study the noise effects of hunting migratory game birds in neighborhoods and communities located in established ...
H1027Active
An Act to streamline permitting for rail electrification SECTION 1. Section 62 of Chapter 30 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting the following definitions:- “Near-zero-emission rail infrastructure”, any infrastructure ...
H1028Active
An Act relative to the protection of our drinking water from nitrosodimethylamine Notwithstanding any other general or special law to the contrary Section 7 of Chapter 21A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by ...
H1029Active
An Act relative to the protection of our drinking water from nitrosodimethylamine Notwithstanding any other general or special law to the contrary Section 7 of Chapter 21A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by ...
H103Active
An Act to establish the Massachusetts neural data privacy protection act SECTION 1. The General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, are hereby amended by inserting after chapter 93L the following chapter: Chapter 93N ...
PrivacyTechnology
H1030Active
An Act relative to the sewer rate relief fund SECTION 1: Section 2Z of Chapter 29 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 official edition, is hereby amended by adding after the words “aforementioned laws ...
H1031Active