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Electric supply battle is back on in the Legislature

3 days ago | statehousenews.com | Sam Drysdale

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JUNE 4, 2025.......Consumer and climate advocates, led by the attorney general, are again pushing to outlaw the competitive electric supply industry from taking new customers, after Gov. Maura Healey recently released her own more moderate compromise to rein in the third-party market.
Graduation requirement council ramping up

4 days ago | statehousenews.com | Sam Drysdale

The Statewide Graduation Council is now taking feedback through a new online survey as it builds its recommendations for the state's new high school graduation requirements. The council, convened by Gov. Maura Healey after voters last fall eliminated the use of the MCAS as a graduation requirement, is ramping up its work as it aims to deliver a set of recommendations to the governor and Legislature by the end of the calendar year. "The task involves answering two very big questions.
Lawmakers receptive to Healey's pitch for higher ed building boom

4 days ago | statehousenews.com | Sam Drysdale

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JUNE 3, 2025......The governor's pitch to leverage the new income surtax to invest $2.5 billion into replacing and repairing buildings on the state's 29 public colleges and universities was met with enthusiasm on Tuesday from the committee in whose hands the proposal now rests. Gov.
Feds blame "sanctuary policies" in Milford teenager's immigration arrest

5 days ago | statehousenews.com | Colin Young

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JUNE 2, 2025.....Eighteen-year-old Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, the Milford High School junior arrested Saturday while on his way to a volleyball practice, was not the target of a federal immigration enforcement investigation and his arrest was the byproduct of Massachusetts's "sanctuary policies," federal officials said Monday.
Senate advances scaled-back version of House spending bill

1 week ago | statehousenews.com | Sam Drysdale |Chris Lisinski

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MAY 27, 2025.....The Senate moved to leave nearly $348 million in underfunded accounts untouched Tuesday, breaking off only a piece of a spending proposal to backfill reimbursements to child care providers who serve low-income families.
Senators get "enough yeses" to add $43.5 mil to budget

2 weeks ago | statehousenews.com | Alison Kuznitz

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MAY 20, 2025.....Senators plowed through more than half of their 1,000+ budget amendments during their first full day of deliberations Tuesday and recessed just before 8 p.m.The additions tacked on roughly $43.5 million onto the budget's bottom line, according to Senate President Karen Spilka's spokesperson Gray Milkowski.
State ponders role in getting people to drive less

3 weeks ago | statehousenews.com | Colin Young

MAY 15, 2025.....The idea of aligning the state's transportation plans with its targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including by making a specific plan to decrease the amount Bay Staters drive, was met Wednesday with skepticism from a key senator who worried it might actually complicate matters and be especially burdensome for rural parts of Massachusetts.
Healey: Mass. can't afford federal food aid cost shift

3 weeks ago | statehousenews.com | Chris Lisinski

A U.S. House Republican proposal to trim food aid could increase the Massachusetts share of the program's costs by hundreds of millions of dollars per year, Gov. Maura Healey warned members of Congress in a letter her office publicized Thursday.
Immigration crackdown spurs rally for state response

3 weeks ago | statehousenews.com | Chris Lisinski

Dozens of immigrant rights activists on Thursday called on Beacon Hill to mount a stronger state response to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, urging Gov.
Insurance regulators apply brake on co-pay, deductible increases

3 weeks ago | statehousenews.com | Alison Kuznitz

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MAY 15, 2025.....Health insurers in Massachusetts must curb increases to deductibles and copays starting next year, as the Division of Insurance flexes its new authority under a 2025 law that gives officials heightened scrutiny over health care costs. The insurance division issued regulatory guidance on March 12 that requires insurance companies to restrict the growth of deductibles and copays to the rate of medical inflation, which is approximately 4.8%. Gov.