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Legislative Wins
H.4554 An Act prohibiting discrimination based on natural hairstyles (The CROWN Act)
Bill combats hair discrimination in Massachusetts by defining natural hairstyles in statute and prohibiting discrimination based on natural hairstyles in schools, businesses, and other public spaces in the Commonwealth.
H.4646 An Act requiring accountability for inequities in suspension and expulsion (The RAISE Act)
Bill addresses in-school disciplinary action that is disproportionately experienced by students of color by requiring all schools to document and attempt alternative methods before suspending or expelling students while also introducing narrower parameters for both expulsion and suspension.
H.4793 An Act relative to the preparation of certain bilingual ballots
Bill made Malden's voting access more equitable by allowing Malden to transliterate the English names of candidates into Chinese characters, so that Malden's substantial Chinese-speaking community has full access to the election process.
H.1318 An Act to update Medicaid resource limits for seniors
Bill provides relief to Massachusetts seniors by changing the asset limits for those on Medicaid support.
H.1319 An Act regarding Medicare savings programs eligibility
Bill reduces healthcare expenses for lower-income seniors by expanding the Commonwealth's eligibility standards for the Federal Medicare Savings Programs
194th Legislative Session
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Cosponsored Legislation
H4683 An Act relative to teacher preparation and student literacy
Bill defines evidence-based early literacy as grounded in scientific research methods, and demonstrated to produce significant and positive effects on student learning outcomes.
H4670 An Act relative to personal financial literacy education
Bill creates a Financial Literacy Trust Fund for educating middle- and high-school students on personal financial literacy.
H4646 An Act enhancing child welfare protections
Bill modernizes the Department of Children and Families’ (DCF) statutory reporting, clarifies the independence of the Office of the Child Advocate (OCA), improves educational stability for children in care, and updates the state’s child fatality review process.
H4360 An Act requiring human trafficking recognition training for certain hospitality workers
Bill requires lodging facilities, such as hotels, motels, lodging houses, and bed-and-breakfasts, to require their employees to participate in a human trafficking recognition training program. The bill also requires these facilities to post in plain view in the lobby or common area, and in any public restroom, a written notice developed by the Attorney General, which should include the national human trafficking hotline number.
H5093 An Act to protect against election misinformation
Bill would require the disclosure of AI use in political advertisements and would ban deceptive communications about a candidate or about the electoral process within three months of an election.
H4767 An Act requiring health care employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence
Bill strengthens protections for health care workers, establishes preventive and protective standards to reduce the risk of violence, improves health care facility incident reporting, enhances interagency coordination to safeguard privacy, and creates legal protections for certain employees harmed in the line of duty.
H5032 An Act relative to preparing apprentices in the commonwealth
Bill seeks to increase the state’s trades’ workforce by requiring the hiring of apprentices for all contracts awarded for public works projects over $10 million. Effective a year after signed into law, this bill would require projects to hire apprentices to work 5 percent of the total amount of hours worked, which would scale up to 10 percent in three years and 15 percent in four years.
H4769 An Act to build resilient infrastructure to generate higher-ed transformation
Bill authorizes approximately $3.65 billion in capital investment to modernize Massachusetts’ public colleges and universities and support the state’s academic, research, workforce and climate goals.
H4706 An Act to improve Massachusetts home care
Bill establishes a licensure process for home care agencies to ensure that consumers receive quality non-medical services, and to protect home care workers.
H4645 An Act relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker
Bill ensures that transit employees receive the same legal heightened protections as other public employees while performing their jobs.
193rd Legislative Session
H4890 An Act relative to salary range transparency
Bill Increases equity and transparency in pay through salary range disclosure. It works to eliminate the gender and racial wealth gap in the Commonwealth, by requiring employers to post full salary ranges for open positions and report their demographic data to the state, so that we can accurately measure gender and race gaps by industry.
H4672 An Act to ensure legal parentage equality
Bill Provides a legal pathway for parentage for LGBTQ+ families and families using assisted reproduction and provides necessary updates to the legal definition of "parentage" and ensures that LGBTQ+ families and families conceived through assisted reproduction are awarded the same parental rights as any other family in the Commonwealth.
H5033 An Act to improve quality and oversight of long-term care
Bill reforms the long term care and assisted living sectors to deliver high quality and safe care for older residents across the commonwealth
to provide safe and high-quality care for some of the Commonwealth's most vulnerable populations.
to provide safe and high-quality care for some of the Commonwealth's most vulnerable populations.
H4744 An Act to prevent abuse and exploitation
Bill prevents abuse and exploitation, strengthens protections for survivors, and enhances education for young people and is a critical update to our protections for survivors of sexual abuse and bans the use of "revenge porn" in Massachusetts.
H4885 An Act modernizing firearm laws
Bill Modernizes firearm laws to protect public safety and crack down on unregistered firearms and ensures public safety protections for vulnerable communities, and provides much-needed updates to our firearms database systems.
H4976 An Act honoring, empowering, and recognizing our servicemembers and veterans
Bill increases benefits, modernizes services, and promotes inclusivity for veterans and provides much needed updates to veteran's benefits and resources. It includes language that we filed this session to increase the annuity payments for veterans and their families.
192nd Legislative Session
H5090 An Act expanding protections for reproductive and gender-affirming care
Bill Provides legal protection to abortion providers/out-of-state patients/providers, expands access to contraceptives, and helps ensure women 24+ weeks pregnant are not forced to leave MA to access reproductive health care services
H4805 An Act relative to work and family mobility
Bill Allows individuals without status to acquire a driver's license after completing all required training and obtaining auto insurance and removes barriers to receiving medical care, obtaining employment, and even accessing basic necessities
H4554 An Act prohibiting discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles
Bill also known as the CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Act prohibits schools or athletic event discrimination based on hairstyles
H4891 An Act addressing barriers to care for mental health
Bill guarantees annual mental health wellness exams similar to an annual physical , increases access to emergency mental health service programs, and enforces mental health parity laws.
H5106 An Act relative to the governance, structure and care of veterans at the Commonwealth’s veterans’ homes
Bill ensures veterans homes are federally licensed as health care facilities, mandates increased state management, and provides independent oversight and accountability of veterans homes management
H5060 An Act driving clean energy and offshore wind
Bill reinforces our robust offshore wind program, advances in solar energy, storage, grid readiness, and building decarbonization, and creates a 10-municipality demonstration project that requires all electric building construction, and expands and codifies Ma’s electric vehicle incentive program
H3697 An Act relative to military spouse-licensure portability, education and enrollment of dependents
Bill supports military families who relocate to the commonwealth with expedited licensure and school enrollment, establishes the Massachusetts Medal of Fidelity, and expands registration and health assessments for the open burn pit registry
H5164 An Act regulating sports wagering
Bill authorizes the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to grant in-person licenses for sports betting establishments including casinos, racetracks, and simulacast facilities, as well as mobile licneses through mobile applications or digital platforms
H692 An Act concerning genocide education
Bill requires genocide education to be taught in all public middle and high schools, requires the Department of Education and Secondary Education to report annually on the progress of genocide education in public schools, and establishes the genocide education trust fund
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