By State House News Service
Fresh on the heels of a legislative report that identified ways Massachusetts could promote the employment of people with physical or intellectual disabilities, Gov. Charlie Baker s latest budget proposal revived his recommendation to establish a tax credit for companies that hire people with disabilities.
Policy sections of the governor s budget call for a $2,000 tax credit for certain businesses that employ an individual with a disability for a minimum of 18 consecutive months. Budget chief Michael Heffernan said the administration filed the same proposal a year ago. It would become effective for hires on July 1, 2021 or later and the credit would kick in for the tax year starting Jan. 1, 2023.
Plymouth legislators request vaccination centers for region
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BOSTON State Sen. Susan L. Moran, D-Plymouth and Barnstable, joined her colleagues from the Southeast Delegation in signing a letter authored by state Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton, urging the governor to open more vaccination sites in southeastern Massachusetts to aid vaccine distribution to the region, which has been underserved in vaccine distribution plans.
The letter, also signed by state Rep. Kathy LaNatra, D-Plymouth, and state Rep. Josh Cutler, D-Duxbury, lays out a request for multiple new facilities, including possible options for implementing the expansion such as working with local hospitals, collaborating with the national guard, or developing a door-to-door vaccination service.
Legislators call for more vaccination sites in Southeast Massachusetts
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BOSTON – Chair of the Southeastern Massachusetts Legislative Caucus Sen. Marc R. Pacheco, D-Taunton, has announced that 26 legislators have called for more vaccination sites in Southeastern Massachusetts.
The following legislators have signed onto a letter calling for the sites: Senators Michael D. Brady, Mark C. Montigny, Susan L. Moran, Rebecca L. Rausch, and Walter F. Timilty, and Representatives Antonio F. D. Cabral, Claire D. Cronin, Josh S. Cutler, David F. DeCoste, Angelo L. D Emilia, Carol A. Doherty, Carole A. Fiola, Susan Williams Gifford, Patricia A. Haddad, Christopher Hendricks, Steven S. Howitt, Kathleen R. LaNatra, Norman J. Orrall, Adam J. Scanlon, Paul A. Schmid, III, Alan Silvia, William M. Straus, Alyson M. Sullivan, Timothy R. Whelan, and Steven G. Xiarhos.
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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. TGIF!
POLLACK S NEW LANE President Joe Biden is filling his new administration with Massachusetts officials and experts, and leaving some big job openings here in the process.
As Gov. Charlie Baker put it yesterday, he s said goodbye to quite a few colleagues in the last several weeks the mayor of Boston, the governor of Rhode Island, two members of his medical advisory board, and now, one of his best-known cabinet secretaries.
For Immediate Release Friday, January 15, 2021
BOSTON Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker vetoed a climate bill on Thursday night that would have updated the state’s appliance efficiency standards.
The Energy SAVE Act (H. 2832) would have required appliances and plumbing fixtures in 17 different categories from commercial dishwashers to household faucets to use energy and water more efficiently. By 2025, it would have reduced emissions equal to taking 24,000 cars off of the road annually, and the benefits would only have increased for each year that followed.
For years, Massachusetts had topped a state-by-state ranking for energy efficiency issued annually by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). But, in 2020, Massachusetts dropped to second place for the first time in a decade, in large part because of the commonwealth’s failure to update appliance efficiency standards.