- Chris Lisinski
In the last days of the 2023–2024 session, Governor Maura Healey signed into law more than two dozen laws, taking the first significant step out of the enormous stack of legislation on her desk.
The majority of the 27 measures that Healey signed are local in nature, affecting only one city or town, according to Massachusetts announcement made by her office on Thursday. Healey signed one bill on Tuesday, and all except one were signed on Wednesday.
A few new legislation with wider implications were included in the first round of action. These included a bill pertaining to group homeowners and car insurance (H 5133) and another putting new rules on money transmission applications such as Venmo (H 4840).
After a rush of legislation to end the two-year tenure, Healey began Tuesday with 122 bills on her desk. She is now examining two significant health care proposals that seek to increase hospital governance (H 5159) and control the cost of prescription drugs (S 3012).
She signed the following measures on Wednesday:
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S 421
providing for the annual election of members of the Spencer-East Brookfield regional school committee; -
S 2444
providing for recall elections in the town of Granby; -
S 2978
authorizing the select board of the town of Provincetown to establish a schedule of fines for parking violations; -
S 2983
authorizing the town of Raynham to appoint retired police officers as special police officers; -
H 3989
authorizing the town of Rowe to continue the employment of Dennis Annear as an on-call firefighter; -
H 4026
further regulating vacancies in the office of town manager in the town of Arlington; -
H 4234
further amending the fair housing ordinance in the city of Cambridge; -
H 4108
designating a certain bridge as the Lieutenant David S. Cutler Memorial Bridge; -
H 4708
further regulating town meeting vacancies in the town of Burlington; -
H 4840
relative to the regulation of money transmission by the division of banks; -
S 2465
further regulating the residential tax exemption in the town of Provincetown; -
S 2471
authorizing the city of Everett to grant 2 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises and 1 additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises; -
H 4091
amending the charter of the town of Provincetown; -
H 4682
amending the charter of the town of Grafton relative to appointments by the select board and the town administrator and the reference to the town s website; -
H 4683
amending the charter of the town of Grafton relative to the school committee and the Grafton housing authority; -
H 4684
amending the charter of the town of Grafton relative to the town clerk; -
H 4685
amending the charter of the town of Grafton relative to transitional provisions; -
H 4859
authorizing Christina Rodriguez to take the civil service examination for the position of firefighter in the city of Haverhill notwithstanding the maximum age requirement; -
H 4860
authorizing Gustavo Romero to take the civil service examination for the position of police officer in the city of Haverhill notwithstanding the maximum age requirement; -
H 4950
authorizing Brian Dacey to take the civil service examination for the position of police officer in the city of Haverhill notwithstanding the maximum age requirement; -
H 4951
authorizing Dante Perella to take the civil service examination for the position of police officer in the city of Haverhill notwithstanding the maximum age requirement; -
H 4952
authorizing Jason Restituyo to take the civil service examination for the position of police officer in the city of Haverhill notwithstanding the maximum age requirement; -
H 4953
authorizing Michael E. Jarvis, Jr. to take the civil service examination for the position of firefighter in the city of Haverhill notwithstanding the maximum age requirement; -
H 5061
authorizing Dave Michienzi to take the civil service examination for the position of firefighter in the city of Haverhill notwithstanding the maximum age requirement; -
H 5116
establishing a sick leave bank for Daniel McKim, an employee of Worcester County Sheriff s Office; -
H 5133
preserving the competitiveness of group auto and homeowners insurance plans; and -
H 5063
designating the state public health laboratory campus as the Doctor Alfred Demaria, Jr. campus.
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