MassVoter.com← All 2017–2018 votesSenate roll call #411 · 2017–2018 session · May 31, 2018
Providing continued investment in the life sciences industry in the Commonwealth
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What they voted on
Add a proposed change (amendment) to the bill
Official wording: S.2531, Question on adoption of the amendment Eldridge Amendment #6
Official amendment title: Tax Expenditure Review (amendment #6, filed by Eldridge, James B.) · amendments on malegislature.gov
Who filed S.2531
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 (15)
- Michael J. Barrett Third Middlesex · Democrat
- William N. Brownsberger Second Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Cynthia Stone Creem First Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Viriato M. deMacedo Plymouth and Barnstable · Republican
- James B. Eldridge Middlesex and Worcester · Democrat
- Ryan C. Fattman Worcester and Norfolk · Republican
- Paul R. Feeney Bristol and Norfolk · 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
- Barbara A. L'Italien Second Essex and Middlesex · Democrat
- Jason M. Lewis Fifth Middlesex · Democrat
- Joan B. Lovely Second Essex · Democrat
- Mark C. Montigny Second Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
Voted no (22)
- Joseph A. Boncore First Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Michael D. Brady Second Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
- Harriette L. Chandler First Worcester · Democrat
- Nick Collins First Suffolk · Democrat
- Brendan P. Crighton Third Essex · Democrat
- Julian Cyr Cape and Islands · Democrat
- Sal N. DiDomenico Middlesex and Suffolk · Democrat
- Anne M. Gobi Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex · Democrat
- Donald F. Humason, Jr. Second Hampden and Hampshire · Republican
- John F. Keenan Norfolk and Plymouth · Democrat
- Eric P. Lesser First Hampden and Hampshire · 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
- 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
- Dean A. Tran Worcester and Middlesex · Republican
- James T. Welch Hampden · Democrat
Did not vote (1)
- Sonia Chang-Diaz Second Suffolk · Democrat
What it means
The Senate's version of a life sciences bond bill. It lets the state borrow up to $462,970,000 for the Massachusetts Life Sciences Investment Fund, including amounts for University of Massachusetts research and training buildings at Amherst ($47,000,000), Boston ($20,000,000), Dartmouth ($21,750,000), Lowell with the UMass medical school ($50,000,000) and the medical school ($6,000,000 and $5,000,000), plus $5,000,000 for regional grants and $12,000,000 for community college and vocational school workforce grants. It raises the yearly cap on life sciences tax incentives from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 starting January 1, 2019, changes a 2018 date in the 2008 life sciences law to 2028, and extends unspent past bond money for the fund to June 30, 2023.
Source: official text and history of S.2531 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.
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