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H2896 • 2025

An Act providing for fairness and equity for Massachusetts Water Resources Authority employees

An Act providing for fairness and equity for Massachusetts Water Resources Authority employees

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Sponsor
Jack Patrick Lewis
Last action
2025-11-19
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act providing for fairness and equity for Massachusetts Water Resources Authority employees

An Act providing for fairness and equity for Massachusetts Water Resources Authority employees By Representative Lewis of Framingham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act providing for fairness and equity for Massachusetts Water Resources Authority employees By Representative Lewis of Framingham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 2896) of Jack Patrick Lewis relative to collective bargaining of termination and discharge of employees of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.
  • Public Service.
  • Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-19 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

  2. 2025-10-06 Joint

    Hearing rescheduled to 10/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-02:30 PM in A-1 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time

  3. 2025-09-25 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 10/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1

  4. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Public Service

  5. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act providing for fairness and equity for Massachusetts Water Resources Authority employees
By Representative Lewis of Framingham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2896) of Jack Patrick Lewis relative to collective bargaining of termination and discharge of employees of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. Public Service.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.2896

Section 7 (c) (ii) of chapter 372 of the Acts of 1984 of the General Laws shall be amended by striking out the words "provided that any collective bargaining agreement may protect employees against such actions on arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable grounds," and inserting in their place the words, "for just cause."

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