Beacon Hill Roll Call: Jan. 4 to Jan. 8, 2021
Published: 1/15/2021 3:31:42 PM
Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of Jan. 4 to Jan. 8. The 2019 to 2020 legislative session has ended and the 2021 to 2022 session is now underway.
Climate change (S 2296)
The House, 145 to 9, and the Senate, 38 to 2, approved and sent to Gov. Charlie Baker a 57-page climate change bill. A key section makes the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal net zero by 2050.
“This bill steps up the pace of our collective drive to contain climate change,” said Sen. Mike Barrett, D-Lexington, Senate Chair of the Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. “It’s the strongest effort of its kind in the country. With the tools the Legislature assembles here, we’re constructing the response we need and providing a blueprint to other states.”
Beacon Hill Roll Call: Jan. 4 to Jan. 8, 2021
Modified: 1/15/2021 3:32:12 PM
Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of Jan. 4 to Jan. 8. The 2019 to 2020 legislative session has ended and the 2021 to 2022 session is now underway.
Climate change (S 2296)
The House, 145 to 9, and the Senate, 38 to 2, approved and sent to Gov. Charlie Baker a 57-page climate change bill. A key section makes the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal net zero by 2050.
“This bill steps up the pace of our collective drive to contain climate change,” said Sen. Mike Barrett, D-Lexington, Senate Chair of the Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. “It’s the strongest effort of its kind in the country. With the tools the Legislature assembles here, we’re constructing the response we need and providing a blueprint to other states.”
Lawmakers pass Rep. Lori Ehrlich’s sexual-misconduct bill
Legislation would bring transparency to the presence of violence on college campuses
Katie Lannan
State House News Service
College students would be anonymously surveyed about their experiences with sexual misconduct on campus and would have access to new, confidential resources in the event of sexual assault, under a bill that as of press time sat on Gov. Charlie Baker s desk after a last-minute flurry of activity in the Legislature last week.
In a state rich with college campuses, versions of the bill have been filed since 2015 driven by student advocates and recent graduates who have been sharing their stories with lawmakers. Swampscott’s state representative, Lori Ehrlich, has filed versions of the bill in the House and been steadfast in helping get it passed.
Taking the vital signs of Bay State journalism
Wicked Local
Massachusetts lawmakers were quite prodigious in the final days of the State Legislature’s two-year session, sending 141 bills to Gov. Charlie Baker s desk.
The Legislature’s stack of eclectic bills deal with public-policy issues that run the gamut from home-rule petitions and climate change to craft-beer distribution and economic development.
In the latter omnibus bill, one will find provisions written by state Rep. Lori Ehrlich, D-Marblehead, and Sen. Brendan Crighton, D-Lynn, to establish a journalism commission in Massachusetts.
Media professionals, publishers, academics and working journalists and lawmakers among others would comprise the 23-member commission – charged with conducting “a comprehensive, non-binding study relative to communities underserved by local journalism.”
Activists relieved to get campus assault bill to Baker
The Massachusetts State House in Boston GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Modified: 1/7/2021 8:10:54 PM
College students would be anonymously surveyed about their experiences with sexual misconduct on campus and would have access to new, confidential resources in the event of sexual assault, under a bill that’s now on Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk after a last-minute flurry of activity in the Legislature this week.
In a state rich with college campuses, versions of the bill have been filed since 2015, driven by student advocates and recent graduates who have been sharing their stories with lawmakers.