MassVoter.com← All 2017–2018 votesSenate roll call #139 · 2017–2018 session · October 12, 2017
Supplemental budget for fiscal year 2017
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What they voted on
Approve the bill in this chamber (it still needs the other chamber and a final vote)
Official wording: S.2177, Question on passing the bill to be engrossed
Who filed S.2177
Sponsor Senate Committee on Ways and Means
Committees often rewrite bills. The legislators who filed the original versions are listed on malegislature.gov.
Passed
Every member's vote
Voted yes (38)
- Michael J. Barrett Third Middlesex · Democrat
- Joseph A. Boncore First Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Michael D. Brady Second Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
- William N. Brownsberger Second Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Harriette L. Chandler First Worcester · Democrat
- Sonia Chang-Diaz Second Suffolk · Democrat
- Cynthia Stone Creem First Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Julian Cyr Cape and Islands · Democrat
- Viriato M. deMacedo Plymouth and Barnstable · Republican
- Sal N. DiDomenico Middlesex and Suffolk · Democrat
- Eileen M. Donoghue First Middlesex · Democrat
- James B. Eldridge Middlesex and Worcester · Democrat
- Ryan C. Fattman Worcester and Norfolk · Republican
- Linda Dorcena Forry First Suffolk · Democrat
- Cindy F. Friedman Fourth Middlesex · Democrat
- Anne M. Gobi Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex · Democrat
- Adam G. Hinds Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden · Democrat
- Donald F. Humason, Jr. Second Hampden and Hampshire · Republican
- Kathleen O'Connor Ives First Essex · Democrat
- Patricia D. Jehlen Second Middlesex · Democrat
- John F. Keenan Norfolk and Plymouth · Democrat
- Barbara A. L'Italien Second Essex and Middlesex · Democrat
- Eric P. Lesser First Hampden and Hampshire · Democrat
- Jason M. Lewis Fifth Middlesex · Democrat
- Joan B. Lovely Second Essex · Democrat
- Thomas M. McGee Third Essex · Democrat
- Mark C. Montigny Second Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Michael O. Moore Second Worcester · Democrat
- Patrick M. O'Connor Plymouth and Norfolk · Republican
- Marc R. Pacheco First Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
- Michael J. Rodrigues First Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Stanley C. Rosenberg Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester · Democrat
- Richard J. Ross Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex · Republican
- Michael F. Rush Norfolk and Suffolk · Democrat
- Karen E. Spilka Second Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Bruce E. Tarr First Essex and Middlesex · Republican
- Walter F. Timilty Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- James T. Welch Hampden · Democrat
What it means
A Senate Ways and Means supplemental budget for fiscal year 2017 with $85,317,026 in direct appropriations, according to the committee's cover note. The largest items are $49,828,056 for the Department of Transportation, $20,408,910 for a state reserve (item 1599-8910) and $8,700,000 for the Military Division, plus smaller sums for four district attorneys, the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the Department of Fish and Game and $1,429,179 for taxes owed to Boston on 100 Cambridge Street; it also carries unspent balances from many accounts into fiscal year 2018. Policy sections include requiring gaming service employees to register with the Gaming Commission's investigations bureau, changes to foster care permanency planning for children, requiring insurers to certify coverage of home- and community-based mental health services for children, and a fiscal year 2018 school building aid formula change.
Source: official text and history of S.2177 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.
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Source: S.2177 on malegislature.gov · official roll call. MassVoter never grades or scores legislators. How to read this