KLS Keeping Law Simple Legislation in plain English

Straight-ahead summaries built from the official bill text. We keep the source links front and center and leave the decision up to you.

Back to Massachusetts

H5009 • 2025

An Act relative to Labor Relations Policies for Committee for Public Counsel Services Employees

An Act relative to Labor Relations Policies for Committee for Public Counsel Services Employees

Labor
Active

The official status still shows this bill as active or still awaiting another formal step.

Sponsor
Last action
2026-05-07
Official status
Placed on file
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

An Act relative to Labor Relations Policies for Committee for Public Counsel Services Employees

An Act relative to Labor Relations Policies for Committee for Public Counsel Services Employees

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to Labor Relations Policies for Committee for Public Counsel Services Employees

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. 2026-05-07 House

    Committee recommends no action taken

  2. 2026-05-07 House

    For majority report, see H5409

  3. 2026-05-07 House

    Placed on file

  4. 2026-03-16 Joint

    Hearing rescheduled to 03/16/2026 from 11:00 AM-12:10 PM in A-1 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time

  5. 2026-03-04 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 03/16/2026 from 11:00 AM-01:30 PM in A-1

  6. 2026-02-09 Senate

    Senate concurred

  7. 2026-02-05 House

    Referred to the Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to Labor Relations Policies for Committee for Public Counsel Services Employees

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
×

Bill H.5009

HOUSE

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

No. 5009

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
——————

INITIATIVE PETITION OF

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.

BOSTON, JANUARY 3, 2018.

Timothy Carroll
Clerk of the House of Representatives
State House
Boston, Massachusetts 02133

Sincerely,

WILLIAM FRANCIS GALVIN
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

AN INITIATIVE PETITION.

Pursuant to Article XLVIII of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, as amended, the undersigned qualified voters of the Commonwealth, ten in number at least, hereby petition for the enactment into law of the following measure:

FILED ON: 2/4/2026

SECTION 1: Section 1 of chapter 150E of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding to the end of the seventh paragraph, titled "Employer" or "public employer", the following sentence: "In the case of employees of the committee for public counsel services, employer shall mean the committee for public counsel services or its designee."

SECTION 2. Section 7 of said chapter 150E of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking the word "or" before the phrase "the state lottery commission" in line 16 and adding the following words after that phrase: "or the committee for public counsel services."

SECTION 3. Said section 7 of said chapter 150E of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking the word "and" before the words "the state lottery commission" appearing in line 34 and inserting after the word "commission" in line 35 the following words: "and committee for public counsel services."

FIRST TEN SIGNERS
Name
Residence
City or Town

CERTIFICATE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Honorable William Francis Galvin
Secretary of the Commonwealth
One Ashburton Place, Room 1705
Boston, Massachusetts 02108

RE:

Initiative Petition No. H25-22: An Act relative to Labor Relations Policies for Committee for Public Counsel Services Employees

Dear Secretary Galvin:

In accordance with the provisions of Article 48 of the Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution, I have reviewed the above-referenced initiative petition, which was submitted to me on or before the first Wednesday of August of this year.

I hereby certify that this measure is in proper form for submission to the people; that the measure is not, either affirmatively or negatively, substantially the same as any measure which has been qualified for submission or submitted to the people at either of the two preceding biennial state elections; and that it contains only subjects that are related or are mutually dependent and which are not excluded from the initiative process pursuant to Article 48, the Initiative, Part 2, Section 2.

In accordance with Article 48, I enclose a fair, concise summary of the measure.

Sincerely,

INSPECTOR GENERAL,
Attorney General.

Summary of H25-22.

Download PDF

Close