Below is a a list of bills that I have co-sponsored for the 2009-10 legislative session.
Not all of these bills have been fully vetted by me and co-sponsorship does not constitute a binding endorsement, although it does constitute conceptual support.
| S00366 | Baddour | An act to regulate off highway and recreation vehicles |
|---|---|---|
| H03416 | Balser | An Act to Protect Nursing Home Residents |
| H03584 | Balser | An act directing DMH to study peer run respite services |
| H03585 | Balser | Mental health care in hospital emergency rooms |
| H03586 | Balser | Coordination of care for children with mental health needs |
| H02686 | Benson | An Act relative to an excise on plastic carry out bags in supermarkets |
| H03656 | Benson | An Act relative to special education services for low incidence populations |
| H00228 | Bradley | An Act Creating A Civil Legal Action to be Enforced by the Attorney General of the Commonwealth to Protect an Individual?s Right to Repair an Automobile |
| Number not assigned or not located | Bradley | Home of the Brave |
| H03179 | Cabral | An act to create the MA rail transit fund |
| H01310 | Campbell | Transfer Fee on Mortgage Foreclosures |
| H01926 | Canavan | Rehabilitation Counciling |
| Number not assigned or not located | Canavan | Rehab counselors eligible for 3rd party insurance |
| S01604 | Candaras | Rate of compensation paid to court appointed attorneys |
| S01605 | Candaras | Relative to Committee to Public Counsel Service |
| S00931 | Chandler | Fusion Center Oversight |
| S00388 | Chang-Diaz | Healthy communities and the environment |
| H01319 | Clark | Protect animals in domestic violence cases |
| H02717 | Clark | Organ donor registration fund |
| H03418 | Coakley Rivera | Special commission on gender responsive programming for system involved girls |
| H03440 | Coakley Rivera | Diesel emissions reduction act |
| H02342 | Coakley-Rivera | Creditable service for non public school teachers |
| H01328 | Conroy | Prohibit human trafficking |
| H02343 | Conroy | OPEB investment |
| H03188 | Conroy | Gas tax increase |
| S00090 | Creem | Community Preservation Act: extend deeds fees so that state will match 75% of local contribution |
| S00738 | Creem | An Act establishing a public guardianship commission |
| H00333 | D?Amico | Transparency and accountability in economic development spending |
| H02036 | D?Amico | An act relative to optometrists |
| H03854 | D?Amico | Roll back film tax credits |
| H00328 | DiNatale | Relative to scrap metal dealers |
| H01342 | DiNatale | Hidden Compartments |
| H02043 | DiNatale | HLTV 114 tests |
| H02976 | DiNatale | Official conductor of the Commonwealth |
| H00888 | Donato | Insurance appeals |
| S01045 | Donnelly | Temporary adjustments to pension appropriations |
| S01046 | Donnelly | Relative to duel membership and regular compensation |
| S01482 | Donnelly | Relative to the penalties for the failure by telephone and electric supply companies to remove certain poles and wire |
| H03069 | Ehrlich | An Act to reduce coal burning and use |
| S00037 | Eldridge | Workers pathway to self sufficiency act of 2009 |
| S00038 | Eldridge | Asset development in transitional assistance programs |
| H00890 | Erlich | Include a comprehensive smoking cessation benefit in state funded health plans |
| H01069 | Fallon | An Act relative to nursing facility and long term care claims |
| H00725 | Falzone | An act to prohibit the incineration of solid waste |
| H00726 | Falzone | Producer Responsibility for mercury-added lamps |
| H02736 | Falzone | Pay as you throw waste program |
| Number not assigned or not located | Fargo | An Act to promote healthy transportation funding |
| H02737 | Fernandes | An Act to correct income calculation for spouses of nursing home residents |
| H02218 | Finegold | Neighborhood revitalization and urban violence |
| H00718 | Forry | Food policy Council |
| H01797 | Forry | An Act Establishing A Temporary Worker?s Right to Know |
| H02360 | Forry | Integrity of state pension system |
| H00247 | Fox | Certify community health workers |
| H02054 | Garballey | Restrict sale of tobacco products |
| H03227 | Grant | Preserve right of way for north ?south rail link |
| H03645 | Grant | An act relative to cueing and supervision in the PCA program |
| H03669 | Grant | Regulate coal ash |
| H03233 | Guyer | To protect children in vehicles from second hand smoke |
| H00344 | Harkins | Prohibiting Devocalization of Dogs and Cars |
| H02772 | Hecht | Adjusting sales tax on vehicles |
| H03236 | Hecht | Adjusting registration fees for vehicle weight |
| S00774 | Hedlund | Puppy mills |
| H03571 | Honan | Protect tenants in foreclosed properties |
| H03572 | Honan | Land use partnership act |
| H03573 | Honan | Act preserving publicly assisted affordable housing |
| S00543 | Jehlen | An Act regarding MassHealth applications |
| H00445 | Kaufman | Reimbursement for special education costs |
| H00757 | Kaufman | An Act to Promote Safer Alternatives to Toxic Chemicals |
| H00757 | Kaufman | An Act for a Healthy Massachusetts |
| H02485 | Kaufman | PERAC Board Governance |
| H02485 | Kaufman | Integrity of state pension system |
| H02488 | Kaufman | An act relative to certain health insurance options for municipal retirees |
| H02488 | Kaufman | Health insurance options for municipal retirees |
| H02795 | Kaufman | An act relative to broadened eligibility for relief from disproportionate property tax burdens |
| H02795 | Kaufman | Property tax circuit breaker |
| H03932 | Kaufman | Credible Service |
| Number not assigned or not located | Kaufman | Special ed transportation costs |
| H00448 | Khan | Healthy School meals |
| H01815 | Khan | An Act Establishing Paid Sick Days |
| H02080 | Khan | An Act relative to a Board of Registration in Midwifery |
| H02082 | Khan | Nurse Anesthetists |
| H02240 | Khan | A Citizen?s Board for DOC |
| H02241 | Khan | An act relative to impaired driving |
| H03954 | Khan | Establishing substance abuse health protection and Chapter 70 funding- alcohol tax |
| H00758 | Kocot | Public Input into changes on public lands and buildings |
| H00758 | Kocot | Public input to changes to public lands and buildings thereon |
| H00450 | Koutoujian | An Act relative to the public health impact of commercialism in schools. |
| H02092 | Koutoujian | Proper school nutrition |
| H02094 | Koutoujian | An Act relative to air quality in schools and public buildings |
| H03258 | Koutoujian | Healthy transportation planning |
| H03551 | Koutoujian | Commission on community farming |
| H03595 | Koutoujian | Ban trans fats |
| H00774 | Kulik | An act authorizing the establishment of old growth forest reserves |
| H00775 | Kulik | Conservation Resrictions and Agricultural preservation Statutes |
| H00776 | Kulik | Food Policy bill |
| H02509 | Kulik | Municipal health insurance plans |
| H00153 | L?Italien | An Act to support and increase the number of qualified providers of intensive intervention and |
| H00459 | L?Italien | An Act relating to the special education circuit breaker to incentivize the provision of in district |
| H00460 | L?Italien | An Act to provide greater financial cost share of special education to sending districts under the special education circuit breaker |
| H03834 | L?Italien | An Act relative to senior tax relief. |
| H03805 | L?Italian | An Act addressing LGBT elder inclusion. |
| H00152 | L?Italien | An act regarding spouses as caregivers |
| H03809 | L?Italien | Autism insurance reform bill |
| S01469 | L?Italien, Tolman | Teaching disability history and awareness |
| H01510 | Lantigua | Moratorium on Foreclosures |
| Bill Number | Lead Sponsor | Informal Title |
| H03844 | L'Italian | Autism license plate |
| H00155 | L'Italien | Autism Commission |
| H03421 | L'Italien | Improve personal care attendant program |
| H03803 | L'Italien | Three year phase in of transportation costs/special education circuit breaker |
| H03804 | L'Italien | Bullying of children with autism spectrum disorder |
| H04079 | L'Italien | Reimbursing Cities and Towns for Special Education Transportation Costs |
| H01232 | Malia | Protect tenants in foreclosed housing |
| H03266 | Malia | Naming the State Transportation Library after George Sanborn |
| H03267 | Malia | Relative to speed limits in cities and towns |
| H03523 | Malia | CORI bill |
| H03542 | Malia | MBTA Board of Directors |
| Number not assigned or not located | Menard | Clarification of fresh pursuit |
| S00058 | Montigny | Human trafficking bill |
| S00860 | Moore | An Act allowing for the supervised delegation in the home of certain nursing services to home health aides |
| S01756 | Moore | Optometrists treat glaucoma |
| H00282 | O?Day | Right to repair |
| H02256 | O?Day | An act relative to local control of personal watercraft |
| S00176 | O?Leary | An act authorizing direct shipment of wine |
| S00422 | O?Leary | An act relative to farmers markets |
| H02845 | Patrick | Energy efficient vehicles |
| H02561 | Peisch | Pension reform |
| H03568 | Pignatelli | Education loan program for social workers |
| H00169 | Provost | Prevent homelessness among recipients of transitional assistance |
| H00807 | Provost | Water quality commission Mystic River |
| H00808 | Provost | An act reducing human exposure to particulate matter pollution |
| H01945 | Provost | Rights of people receiving mental health services |
| H02001 | Provost | Relative to snow and ice removal |
| H02140 | Provost | Health effects of particulate matter |
| H03643 | Provost | Relative to speed limits |
| H00171 | Reinstein | Protect and improve EAEDC |
| H00815 | Richardson | Farm animal confinement |
| H01703 | Rush | Boston home rule re illegal firearms |
| H01708 | Rushing | Equal access to civil marriage |
| H01947 | Rushing | Relative to treatment of prisoners |
| H01948 | Rushing | Increasing access to addiction treatment |
| H03148 | Rushing | History of slavery in MA |
| H03535 | Rushing | Privacy protections for electronic health records |
| H03537 | Rushing | Legislative amendment to constitution relative to initiative petitions |
| H01028 | Sanchez | Improve asthma management |
| H01237 | Sanchez | Public housing innovation |
| H03313 | Sannicandro | Safe Roads |
| H00183 | Scibak | Level IV Treatment Interventions |
| H01037 | Sciortino | Pay by the mile auto insurance |
| H01242 | Sciortino | Prevent homelessness by removing barriers to subsidized housing |
| H01728 | Sciortino | Transgender ? hate crimes |
| H01856 | Sciortino | Economic opportunities for racetrack employees |
| H03326 | Sciortino/Wolf | Improving finances of MBTA |
| H00506 | Smizik | Charter school working group |
| H00831 | Smizik | Mercury added thermostats |
| H01729 | Smizik | Judicial foreclosure |
| H02161 | Smizik | An Act for Safer Cleaning Products |
| H03330 | Smizik | Regulation of snow and recreational vehicles |
| H03675 | Smizik | Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and reduce fossil fuels for vehicles |
| H03689 | Smizik | Enabling act to protect HUD tenants |
| Number not assigned or not located | Smizik | OHV bill |
| H00834 | Smiznak | Sustainable Water Resources |
| H00833 | Smiznik | Producer Responsibility for Discarded Electronic products |
| S00278 | Spilka | Act to fulfill the promise of education reform |
| H01175 | St. Fleur | Educational parity in higher Learning |
| Number not assigned or not located | Stanley, T | Data collection for charter schools |
| H00156 | Story | Pilot program for adults with Asperger's or autism |
| H00842 | Story | Clear labeling of seed products containing GM materials |
| H01745 | Story | Updating public health laws |
| H01746 | Story | Alternative counseling for minors |
| H02168 | Story | Clear labeling of food products containing GM materials |
| H03897 | Story | Postpartum depression |
| H03465 | Sullivan, D | Improving emergency access to mental health services |
| H03465 | Sullivan, D. | Improving emergency access to mental health |
| H01754 | Swan | Reform the school zone law for drug offenses |
| H01755 | Swan | Repeal mandatory minimums sentences for drug offenses |
| S00996 | Timilty | Statewide police identification cards |
| S00792 | Timilty | Local by law for Triple I checks |
| S01825 | Timilty | Clarification of marijuana decriminalization |
| S01843 | Tolman | Good Samaritan |
| H00317 | Torrisi | Direct Shipment of Wine |
| S01848 | Tucker | Loan modification |
| H00210 | Walsh, S. | Act to strengthen community development in the Commonwealth |
| H01785 | Walsh, S. | Alimony reform bill |
| H03368 | Walz | (Kaiser, by request) Bill to regulate off road vehicles |
| H00400 | Welch | Antifreeze bittering agent |
| H00530 | Wolf | Early education and care |
| H00854 | Wolf | Non road diesel |
| H02665 | Wolf | Commission to study pay equity |
| H03137 | Wolf | Recycling containers adjacent to vending machines |
| H03423 | Wolf | Act to bring child support home |
| H03434 | Wolf | Health education |
| H03435 | Wolf | An act to help students stay in school |
| H03436 | Wolf | Reduced class size |
| H03515 | Wolf | Updated bottle bill |
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Thank you for Co-Sponsoring H03515 Wolf Updated bottle bill. Thank you very much for your strong support. Mark Eckstein