MassVoter.com← All 2017–2018 votesSenate roll call #340 · 2017–2018 session · March 22, 2018
Relative to voluntary towing reform
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What they voted on
Add a proposed change (amendment) to the bill
Official wording: S.2354, Question on adoption of the amendment O'Connor Amendment 1
Official amendment title: Lienholder Notification (amendment #1, filed by O'Connor, Patrick M.) · amendments on malegislature.gov
Who filed S.2354
Sponsor Senate Committee on Ways and Means
Committees often rewrite bills. The legislators who filed the original versions are listed on malegislature.gov.
Amendment rejected
Every member's vote
Voted yes (8)
- Viriato M. deMacedo Plymouth and Barnstable · Republican
- Ryan C. Fattman Worcester and Norfolk · Republican
- Donald F. Humason, Jr. Second Hampden and Hampshire · Republican
- Barbara A. L'Italien Second Essex and Middlesex · 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
- Dean A. Tran Worcester and Middlesex · Republican
Voted no (29)
- 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
- Brendan P. Crighton Third Essex · 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
- Paul R. Feeney Bristol and Norfolk · 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
- Kathleen O'Connor Ives First Essex · Democrat
- John F. Keenan Norfolk and Plymouth · Democrat
- Eric P. Lesser First Hampden and Hampshire · Democrat
- Jason M. Lewis Fifth Middlesex · Democrat
- Joan B. Lovely Second Essex · Democrat
- Mark C. Montigny Second Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Michael O. Moore Second Worcester · Democrat
- Marc R. Pacheco First Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
- Michael J. Rodrigues First Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Stanley C. Rosenberg Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester · 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
Did not vote (2)
- Michael J. Barrett Third Middlesex · Democrat
- Patricia D. Jehlen Second Middlesex · Democrat
What it means
Requires tow companies based in Massachusetts to get a yearly certificate from the Department of Public Utilities before doing consensual, voluntary towing (tows the vehicle owner asks for). To get a certificate, a company must show proof of insurance, pay a fee set by the state's administration and finance secretary, and meet the department's public safety requirements. Tow companies working for a membership service organization are exempt if that organization certifies each year that its standards meet or beat the state's. The department must write rules within 12 months, and tow companies then have 12 months after the rules are issued to comply.
Source: official text and history of S.2354 on malegislature.gov.
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