massachusetts politics

As they closed the blinds, flipped their office calendars to September and took off for an August recess early Monday morning, the House and Senate left Gov. Charlie Baker with a whole heap of work to do before he can even think about an August breather. Here is a list of the bills on Baker’s desk as of Tuesday...

One bill centers on improving mental health care. Another centers on equity in the cannabis industry. And lawmakers are still unable to agree on an economic development bill.

Beacon Hill lawmakers will take up legislation on Wednesday intended to protect abortion providers as well as people from out-of-state who travel to Massachusetts for care. Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights have been left to the states. Last month, a sweeping reproductive rights bill passed through the Massachusetts House of Representative and now...

Senators on Beacon Hill will discuss on Wednesday how to protect providers as well as people who travel to Massachusetts for abortion care.

In a 136-17 vote, a bill that would declare access to reproductive health care as state law passed the Massachusetts House Wednesday night. A number of women representatives took tot he House floor, arguing in favor of House Bill 4930.

More than a dozen representatives, most of them women, took to the House floor one-by-one Wednesday afternoon to argue in favor of a bill designed to ensure access to reproductive health care, to support the patients who need it and to protect its providers in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that erases the nearly 50-year-old right...

Massachusetts democrats held their convention this past weekend at the DCU Center in Worcester where Attorney General Maura Healey won an overwhelming endorsement for governor, further cementing her frontrunner status in a primary race against state Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz.

Democrats will gather in Worcester this weekend for the annual convention – with one of the biggest issues being to select a gubernatorial candidate.

Massachusetts senators passed a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to receive drivers’ licenses.

A bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to apply for drivers’ licenses has passed the Massachusetts Senate.

The Massachusetts State Senate will debate whether undocumented immigrants should be able to get drivers’ licenses in formal session Thursday morning.

The Massachusetts State Senate on Thursday voted in favor of a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses. The Senate voted 32 to 8 in favor of the measure. A similar bill has already passed in that House with a veto-proof majority. Gov. Charlie Baker has expressed his opposition to the measure, which would allow Massachusetts residents…

House Democrats kicked off debate Monday on a nearly $50 billion state budget bill by rejecting Republican-led efforts to weave tax relief into the annual spending plan. Massachusetts raked in more than $5 billion in surplus tax revenues last fiscal year and is running at least $1.5 billion ahead of the current year’s projections, performance that — coupled with more…

A former Massachusetts state lawmaker who pleaded guilty to various corruption charges has been released from prison and will serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement or at a halfway house. Former Democratic state Rep. David Nangle, of Lowell, was sentenced in September to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to illegally using campaign funds to pay…

Republican gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl will run as a team with former state representative Leah Allen, a North Shore Republican who spent a brief stint on Beacon Hill before leaving the House to focus on her nursing career. Diehl, a Whitman Republican who served in the House with Allen, announced her Monday morning as his running mate for lieutenant governor,…

The Democrat from Brookline says she has used the law as a tool to improve people’s lives.

After being closed for nearly two years, the Massachusetts State House has opened its doors to the public once again.

The Massachusetts State House reopened Tuesday after being closed for nearly two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

After being closed for nearly two years, the Massachusetts State House opened its doors to the public Tuesday. The building has been largely closed to all but lawmakers, State House staffers and reporters since the start of the pandemic in Massachusetts in March 2020. The building has been closed to the public for more than 700 days, far longer than…

The state house has been closed for nearly two years because of the coronavirus pandemic.