MassVoter.com← All 2017–2018 votesSenate roll call #224 · 2017–2018 session · October 26, 2017
Supplemental budget for fiscal year 2017
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What they voted on
Add a proposed change (amendment) to the bill
Official wording: H.3979, Question on adoption of the amendment Spilka Amendment (S2194)
Who filed H.3979
Sponsor House Committee on Ways and Means
Committees often rewrite bills. The legislators who filed the original versions are listed on malegislature.gov.
Amendment adopted
Every member's vote
Voted yes (28)
- 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
- Sal N. DiDomenico Middlesex and Suffolk · Democrat
- Eileen M. Donoghue First Middlesex · Democrat
- James B. Eldridge Middlesex and Worcester · Democrat
- Linda Dorcena Forry First Suffolk · Democrat
- Cindy F. Friedman Fourth Middlesex · Democrat
- Adam G. Hinds Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden · Democrat
- 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 J. Rodrigues First Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Michael F. Rush Norfolk and Suffolk · Democrat
- Karen E. Spilka Second Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Walter F. Timilty Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- James T. Welch Hampden · Democrat
Voted no (8)
- Viriato M. deMacedo Plymouth and Barnstable · Republican
- Ryan C. Fattman Worcester and Norfolk · Republican
- Anne M. Gobi Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex · Democrat
- Donald F. Humason, Jr. Second Hampden and Hampshire · Republican
- Michael O. Moore Second Worcester · Democrat
- Patrick M. O'Connor Plymouth and Norfolk · Republican
- Richard J. Ross Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex · Republican
- Bruce E. Tarr First Essex and Middlesex · Republican
Did not vote (1)
- Marc R. Pacheco First Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
What it means
A House Ways and Means supplemental budget for fiscal year 2017 totaling $131,596,223, according to the committee's cover note. Its largest items are $49,828,056 for the Department of Transportation, $20,408,910 for the Office of the Secretary for Administration and Finance (item 1599-8910), $8,700,000 for the Military Division and $4,750,000 for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and it carries unspent balances from many accounts into fiscal year 2018. Policy sections include a Substance Use Disorder Federal Reinvestment Trust Fund that may spend set yearly amounts on treatment, including up to $21 million a year to expand residential treatment, a yearly health coverage form for employers with 6 or more workers, a ban on devices or changes meant to increase a gun's rate of fire (3 to 20 years in state prison), registration of gaming service employees, foster care permanency planning changes, and certification that insurers cover home- and community-based mental health services for children.
Source: official text and history of H.3979 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: H.3979 on malegislature.gov · official roll call. MassVoter never grades or scores legislators. How to read this