By Katie Lannan State House News Service JUNE 24, 2021…..State senators on Thursday approved a bill tweaking a 2016 ballot law around animal welfare standards, in...
Katie Lannan/SHNS Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday morning signed into law a bill extending pandemic-inspired authorizations for remote public meetings, to-go cocktail sales, eviction protections and...
By Michael P. Norton U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey, along with six other Senate Democrats, are calling on the Department of Homeland Security and...
Matt Murphy/SHNS Senate President Karen Spilka and House Speaker Ron Mariano on Thursday teed up for a vote (this) week a constitutional amendment that would raise...
Chris Lisinski/SHNS The Senate quietly shot down a Republican-led push on Wednesday to append Gov. Charlie Baker’s prescription drug pricing plan to the fiscal year 2022...
By Matt Murphy and Michael P. Norton MARCH 16, 2021…..With an end-of-March deadline looming to pass legislation to stabilize the unemployment insurance system, Senate leaders on...
State House News Service STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MARCH 12, 2021…..A year ago, the emerging coronavirus pandemic put most Beacon Hill legislating on hold. A year later,...
By Katie Lannan MARCH 8, 2021…..Top legislative Democrats on Monday sketched out the broad outlines of legislation they said they’d pass quickly, perhaps this week, to...
While Democratic Massachusetts lawmakers are pleased with the likely passage of the American Rescue Plan, they don’t plan on stopping there. Congressman Jake Auchincloss (D, MA-04),...
By Chris Lisinski FEB. 24, 2021…..A three-step, 12-cent gas tax increase, fare-free MBTA and regional transit authority buses, new surcharges on parking space rentals and purchases,...
