MassVoter.com← All 2017–2018 votesSenate roll call #313 · 2017–2018 session · November 15, 2017
Providing for immediate capital improvement needs of the Commonwealth
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What they voted on
Final approval before the bill goes to the Governor
Official wording: H.4015, Question on passing the bill to be enacted (2/3) Senate
Who filed H.4015
Sponsor House 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 (33)
- Joseph A. Boncore First Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Michael D. Brady Second Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
- Harriette L. Chandler First Worcester · Democrat
- Sonia Chang-Diaz Second Suffolk · Democrat
- Cynthia Stone Creem First Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Viriato M. deMacedo Plymouth and Barnstable · Republican
- Eileen M. Donoghue First Middlesex · Democrat
- James B. Eldridge Middlesex and Worcester · Democrat
- Ryan C. Fattman Worcester and Norfolk · Republican
- Paul R. Feeney Bristol and Norfolk · Democrat
- 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
- Patricia D. Jehlen Second Middlesex · Democrat
- John F. Keenan Norfolk and Plymouth · Democrat
- Barbara A. L'Italien Second Essex and Middlesex · 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
Did not vote (6)
- Michael J. Barrett Third Middlesex · Democrat
- William N. Brownsberger Second Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Julian Cyr Cape and Islands · Democrat
- Sal N. DiDomenico Middlesex and Suffolk · Democrat
- Kathleen O'Connor Ives First Essex · Democrat
- Eric P. Lesser First Hampden and Hampshire · Democrat
What it means
This capital bill authorizes $199,000,000 in state bonds to design and build a new Soldiers' Home in Chelsea, a long-term care center for veterans of about 154 beds that replaces Quigley Memorial Hospital. It also authorizes $45,000,000 in bonds for broadband: $32,000,000 in grants to cities, towns and regional municipal groups for broadband infrastructure, and $13,000,000 for the Broadband Incentive Fund. The Chelsea bonds must be paid off by June 30, 2052 and the broadband bonds by June 30, 2042.
Source: official text and history of H.4015 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.
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