1/17/2024 0 Comments Massachusetts senate session 2016![]() Chapter 14 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR JAMES O’BRIEN, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES.Chapter 13 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF SCITUATE TO ESTABLISH THE DATE OF ITS ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION.Chapter 12 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR SIMON VALEDI, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.Chapter 11 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE FINANCING OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS TO MUNICIPAL ROADS AND BRIDGES.Chapter 10 AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2015 TO PROVIDE FOR SUPPLEMENTING CERTAIN EXISTING APPROPRIATIONS AND FOR CERTAIN OTHER ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS.Chapter 9 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR DAVID OGAR, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.Chapter 8 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR LISA CARLSON, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE POLICE.Chapter 7 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR AUDREY GRAHAM SMITH, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.Chapter 6 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR JAMES GOGUEN, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES.Chapter 5 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR ROBERT PATERWIC, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS.Chapter 4 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR MATTHEW ARPANO, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.Chapter 3 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR MICHELE SHUMAN, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE TRIAL COURTĪpproved by the Governor, February 20, 2015.Chapter 2 AN ACT ADDRESSING THE FISCAL YEAR 2015 BUDGET SHORTFALLĪpproved by the Governor, February 13, 2015.Chapter 1 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR MARYELLEN DEAN, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICESīecame law without Executive Approval, February 9, 2015.Joshua Miller can be reached at Follow him on Twitter and subscribe to his weekday e-mail update on politics at / politicalhappyhour. Once they hash out a final package, it will go to Baker who can, among other options, veto it or sign it into law. The chamber’s budget will now be reconciled with an earlier House-passed budget in a committee that includes senators and representatives. The Senate vote adopting the bag ban was 29-9, with some Republicans voting for it and some Democrats voting against it. Plastic bags are created from fossil fuels, he said, and are used only briefly before they become litter or take hundreds of years to decompose in landfills, releasing toxins. Joyce, a Milton Democrat who has long been a bag-ban proponent, said he was delighted with the bag vote. Jack Clarke, director of public policy at Mass Audubon, said just as retail groups cried foul about recycling measures that have been successful in Massachusetts for 20 years, so too are they worrying about the bag ban.Ĭlarke framed a statewide bag ban as inevitable: “We’re either going to eventually have 351 municipal restrictions on bags, or we’ll have the Commonwealth do one standard that all the businesses and industries can match.” We feel it should apply to all retailers to make it fair.” But since this week’s push is not part of such a comprehensive effort, the association does not support it, he said.Īnd, continued Houghton, “the 10-cent fee might be a bit high and there shouldn’t be a distinction by the size of the store. “Our board has voted to support a statewide plastic bag ban if it were part of a comprehensive recycling bill,” said Brian Houghton, the vice president of the Massachusetts Food Association, a supermarket and grocery trade group. He estimated that 20,000 retail locations, out of about 60,000 in the state, would be affected by the ban.Īnother trade group had a different take. And, he said, stores wouldn’t be offering plastic bags if consumers didn’t want them. He emphasized he uses plastic shopping bags to line the trash bin in his bathroom and paper shopping bags to recycle his newspapers. “The local store is being put in a position of telling the consumer: ‘Well, you’ve got to pay me to get a bag,’ ” Hurst said. Hurst worried that the ban, if put into law, would lessen the advantages stores on Main Street have over online retailers like. He said people go into retail stores to be served, and part of the service they expect is a bag for the goods they purchase. Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, decried the ban as “bad public policy” for both consumers and mom-and-pop retailers. Plastic bags, he said, are “something that we really don’t need, given that there are alternatives like a reusable bag or a paper bag.”īut Jon B.
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