MassVoter.com← All 2017–2018 votesSenate roll call #419 · 2017–2018 session · June 14, 2018
To promote a clean energy future
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What they voted on
Add a proposed change (amendment) to the bill
Official wording: S.2545, Question on adoption of the amendment #41 Eldridge
Official amendment title: Solar Credits for Public Housing (amendment #41, filed by Eldridge, James B.) · amendments on malegislature.gov
Who filed S.2545
Sponsor Senate 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 (37)
- 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
- Nick Collins First Suffolk · Democrat
- Cynthia Stone Creem First Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Brendan P. Crighton Third Essex · Democrat
- Julian Cyr Cape and Islands · Democrat
- Viriato M. deMacedo Plymouth and Barnstable · Republican
- Sal N. DiDomenico Middlesex and Suffolk · Democrat
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
What it means
This bill requires the state to set greenhouse gas limits for 2030 (35 to 45 per cent below 1990 levels) and 2040 (55 to 65 per cent below), and directs the state energy and environment secretary to set up market-based pricing systems to cut emissions from transportation, businesses and homes, designed to limit the impact on low-income households. It sets the yearly increase in required renewable energy sales at an additional 3 per cent a year starting in 2019, and sets a 2,000-megawatt energy storage target by January 1, 2025. It lifts the overall net metering cap for solar, limits utility demand charges, and lets the state energy resources department recommend offshore wind purchases of up to 5,000 megawatts by December 31, 2035 if it finds that doing so is consistent with state energy policy. It also brings municipal light plants under the state climate law, unless the secretary exempts them.
Source: official text and history of S.2545 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.
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