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Beacon Hill Roll Call: March 29 to April 2, 2021 Modified: 4/9/2021 2:39:57 PM There were no roll calls in the House and Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on the number of times each representative sided with Gov. Charlie Baker on his 151 vetoes of items in the 2020 session. A two-thirds vote is required to override a gubernatorial veto. In a full 160-member House, the governor needed the support of 54 representatives to sustain a veto when all 160 representatives vote...

Beacon Hill Roll Call: March 29 to April 2, 2021 Published: 4/9/2021 2:39:53 PM There were no roll calls in the House and Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on the number of times each representative sided with Gov. Charlie Baker on his 151 vetoes of items in the 2020 session. A two-thirds vote is required to override a gubernatorial veto. In a full 160-member House, the governor needed the support of 54 representatives to sustain a veto when all 160 representatives vot...

Relief bill coming together to aid workers, businesses By Katie Lannan State House News Service Top legislative Democrats on Monday sketched out the broad outlines of legislation they said theyd pass quickly, perhaps this week, to provide relief to workers and businesses still facing the economic strains of the COVID-19 pandemic. Senate President Karen Spilka, House Speaker Ronald Mariano and Ways and Means Committee Chairs Rep. Aaron Michlewitz and Sen. Michael Rodrigues said the bill theyd ag...

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Group of state reps call for firing of Mass. Climate Change Undersecretary David Ismay after he was caught saying state needs to ‘break’ the will of consumers Updated Feb 09, 2021; A group of Massachusetts lawmakers are calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to fire his undersecretary for climate change over a video that surfaced last week in which he says the state needs to “break” the will of consumers “so they stop emitting.” In light of what eight state representatives described as “i...

The bill calls for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, sets interim emission targets, establishes appliance energy efficiency standards, authorizes additional purchases of offshore wind power and adds protections for environmental justice communities.

Sweeping climate policy legislation is back on Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk two weeks after he rejected a previous iteration of the same bill.

Two more state lawmakers have told Treasurer Deborah Goldberg that they will not be accepting the $4,280 raise in annual salary due to legislators for the new session, bringing the total number of lawmakers who have rejected the money to four.