H909 • 2025

An Act to establish a grant and loan program for low noise, low emissions landscape maintenance equipment

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Sponsor: Michelle L. Ciccolo
Last action: 2026-02-26
Official status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act to establish a grant and loan program for low noise, low emissions landscape maintenance equipment

An Act to establish a grant and loan program for low noise, low emissions landscape maintenance equipment By Representative Ciccolo of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act to establish a grant and loan program for low noise, low emissions landscape maintenance equipment By Representative Ciccolo of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
909) of Michelle L.
Ciccolo for legislation to establish a grant and loan program for small businesses and municipalities to transition landscape maintenance equipment to low noise, low emissions equipment.
Environment and Natural Resources.

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Bill History

2026-02-26 House
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2025-12-24 House
Reporting date extended to Wednesday, March 18, 2026
2025-09-15 House
Reporting date extended to Wednesday, December 31, 2025
2025-06-10 Joint
Hearing scheduled for 06/17/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
2025-02-27 House
Referred to the committee on Environment and Natural Resources
2025-02-27 Senate
Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act to establish a grant and loan program for low noise, low emissions landscape maintenance equipment
By Representative Ciccolo of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 909) of Michelle L. Ciccolo for legislation to establish a grant and loan program for small businesses and municipalities to transition landscape maintenance equipment to low noise, low emissions equipment. Environment and Natural Resources.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill H.909

Chapter 21A of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section:

Section 29. (a) There shall be within the executive office of energy and environmental affairs a grant and loan program to provide incentive funds to small businesses and municipalities to transition landscape maintenance equipment to low noise, low emissions equipment.

(b) To be eligible for a grant, small businesses and municipalities shall surrender gas-powered landscape maintenance equipment for a one-for-one replacement with low-noise, low-emissions equipment.

(c) Grant and loan funds awarded pursuant to subsection (a) may be used for:

(1) purchasing electric landscape maintenance equipment;

(2) training landscaping staff on the use and care of electric landscape maintenance equipment;

(3) operational costs that may be accrued through the transition from gas-powered landscape maintenance equipment to electric landscape maintenance equipment; and

(4) any other cost associated with the transition from gas-powered landscape maintenance equipment to electric landscape maintenance equipment, as determined by the secretary.

(d) Loans awarded pursuant to subsection (a) shall carry 0 percent interest.

(e)(1) There is hereby established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Low Noise, Low Emissions Landscape Maintenance Equipment Trust Fund, in this section called the fund. The secretary shall be the trustee of the fund and may expend amounts from the fund without further appropriation.

(2) Amounts credited to the fund shall not be subject to further appropriation and money remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund and shall be available for expenditure in the subsequent fiscal year.

(3) The secretary shall report annually, on or before August 1, to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the senate and house chairs of the joint committee on environment, natural resources, and agriculture regarding expenditure activity within the trust fund.

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