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The coronavirus pandemic and vaccine rollout continue to command much of state lawmakersâ attention, but the budget process will pick up pace this month as the Legislature prepares to set funding priorities.
The House Ways and Means Committee typically releases its budget proposal in mid-April, and a Tuesday budget hearing considered health and human services expenditures, which account for the majority of spending.
A report last week detailing âmulti-system failuresâ in the death of a Fall River teen has also captured the attention of several lawmakers who want to reform the stateâs child welfare systems. And Gov. Charlie Bakerâs Friday amendments to a COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave proposal have worried advocates over the amendmentsâ exclusion of municipal employees.
Massachusetts Dems insist on keeping municipal workers in COVID leave program
Updated 11:02 AM;
By Matt Murphy | State House News Service
Putting them at odds with Gov. Charlie Baker and a municipal trade group, House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka intend to preserve eligibility for municipal employees in an emergency COVID-19 sick leave program that the Legislature is working to finalize and return to the governor’s desk.
Baker has proposed several amendments to the sick leave program that the Legislature tried to include in a larger unemployment tax relief package, most of which the governor signed off on last Friday.