MassVoter.com← All 2017–2018 votesSenate roll call #476 · 2017–2018 session · July 25, 2018
Relative to economic development in the commonwealth
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What they voted on
Add a proposed change (amendment) to the bill
Official wording: S.2625, Question on adoption of the amendment Eldridge Amendment 16
Who filed S.2625
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 (36)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Michael J. Barrett Third Middlesex · Democrat
What it means
This Senate Ways and Means version of the economic development bill authorizes $601,450,000 in state borrowing. Items include $200,000,000 for the MassWorks infrastructure program, $100,000,000 for improvements at the Raymond L. Flynn Cruiseport in South Boston, $75,000,000 for a job-training equipment grant program, $55,000,000 for coastal community projects, and $50,000,000 each for coastal dredging grants and cultural facilities, plus many smaller local items. It also adopts a Uniform Trade Secrets Act starting October 1, 2018, sets new rules for noncompetition agreements between employers and workers, creates a program to help fill vacant downtown storefronts, and requires cable operators to carry local public, educational and government access channels.
Source: official text and history of S.2625 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.
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