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193rd Session (2023-2024) 
Legislation Filed by Senator Feeney

​Each session Senator Feeney files numerous bills to address the unique needs of the Bristol & Norfolk District and the people of Massachusetts.
Below is a list of bills authored and filed by Senator Feeney this session.

Bill / Docket Number
Sponsorship Type
Bill Title
S171
Primary Sponsor
An Act modernizing protections for consumers in automobile transactions
S1171
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to compliance with the prevailing wage laws of the Commonwealth
S636
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to rehabilitation periods for those in addiction recovery
S968
Primary Sponsor
An Act reforming alimony in the Commonwealth
S2000
Primary Sponsor
An Act to establish a November holiday honoring President John F. Kennedy, to promote increased voter participation and civic engagement
S967
Primary Sponsor
An Act eradicating human trafficking and promoting transparency in the retail supply chain
S1172
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to unemployment compensation and labor disputes
S1173
Primary Sponsor
An Act further regulating Sunday overtime wages
S1170
Primary Sponsor
An Act addressing workplace bullying, mobbing, and harassment, without regard to protected class status while promoting healthy workplaces
S1368
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to patient identity and privacy protection in waiting rooms
S164
Primary Sponsor
An Act enhancing the podiatric profession's registration and oversight
S167
Primary Sponsor
An Act further regulating thoroughbred breeding
S2232
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to historic route designations
S1666
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to maintenance of physical examinations records for public safety personnel
S824
Primary Sponsor
An Act to establish a Master of Library Science assistance program
S165
Primary Sponsor
An Act further regulating the continuing education requirements for real estate brokers and salespersons
S166
Primary Sponsor
An Act furthering fair housing in real estate
S1174
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to workplace safety and disclosure of violations
S1176
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to occupational presumption and COVID-19
S1667
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to executive office of public safety and security dispatchers
S1670
Primary Sponsor
An Act to authorize a local option for group retirement classification
S1663
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to court officers injured on duty
S417
Primary Sponsor
An Act to protect the integrity of town meetings
S1820
Primary Sponsor
Resolve to establish a commission to report on the Moral Budget
S1668
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to the composition of the Group Insurance Commission
S638
Primary Sponsor
An Act limiting out of pocket health expenses
S2003
Primary Sponsor
An Act making October 25th Dwarfism Awareness Day in the Commonwealth
S635
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to cognitive rehabilitation for individuals with an acquired brain injury
S637
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to group insurance commission procurement
S488
Primary Sponsor
An Act creating the outdoor recreation program
S1999
Primary Sponsor
An Act addressing the racial wealth gap
S81
Primary Sponsor
An Act requiring licensure for use of graduated electronic decelerators
S1662
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to protecting local retirees
S1661
Primary Sponsor
An Act to provide diabetes prevention program benefits for GIC insurees
SRes155
Primary Sponsor
RESOLUTIONS CONGRATULATING DUNCAN A. MACLEOD ON HIS ONE HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY
SRes141
Primary Sponsor
COMMENDING THE ATTLEBORO AREA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE ON THE OCCASION OF SERVING ITS ONE MILLIONTH MEAL TO THOSE IN NEED THROUGH THE FOOD N’ FRIENDS PROGRAM.
SRes126
Primary Sponsor
RESOLUTIONS CONGRATULATING MARK MATANES ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT AS STATE COMMISSIONER OF THE EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS BABE RUTH LEAGUES, INC.
SRes112
Primary Sponsor
RESOLUTIONS CONGRATULATING BOY SCOUT TROOP 17 ON THEIR 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF CHARTERING
S2395
Primary Sponsor
Investing in Vocational-Technical Education to Build Capacity, Expand Access, and Create Opportunities
SRes35
Primary Sponsor
RESOLUTIONS CONGRATULATING WILLIAM G. KEEGAN, JR. ON HIS RETIREMENT AFTER 40 YEARS OF DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVICE
SRes22
Primary Sponsor
RESOLUTIONS CONGRATULATING FIRE CHIEF JAMES WRIGHT OF THE TOWN OF SHARON ON HIS RETIREMENT
SRes13
Primary Sponsor
RESOLUTIONS RECOGNIZING THE TITUS FAMILY FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TOWN OF CANTON
SRes8
Primary Sponsor
RESOLUTIONS COMMENDING THE SHARON GARDEN CLUB ON THE OCCASION OF THE NINETIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS ESTABLISHMENT
S875
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to manufactured housing communities
S874
Primary Sponsor
An Act establishing the missing-middle starter home development and home ownership program
S2127
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to healthy and sustainable schools
S2321
Primary Sponsor
An Act excluding Chapter 115 payments to veterans from gross household income calculation
S970
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to suicide prevention signage at certain facilities
S873
Primary Sponsor
An Act to transform the Commonwealth’s emergency response system and create housing strategies to end the homelessness of unaccompanied adults
S2126
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to solar energy grants at posts of veterans' organizations
S1523
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to safe building materials
S1660
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to further defining employees classified in Group 4
S1664
Primary Sponsor
An Act clarifying constitutional officer employers for collective bargaining purposes
S1669
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to employees of the Commonwealth who are required to respond to crime scenes
S2125
Primary Sponsor
An Act reducing administrative burden for government and industry
S2124
Primary Sponsor
An Act to ensure safety and transparency in pipeline repair
S2002
Primary Sponsor
An Act to permit enhanced public access to deliberations of public bodies and to permit improved efficiency of public bodies
S1522
Primary Sponsor
An Act to ensure the safety of students, faculty and staff on the campuses of state colleges, community colleges and state universities
S1519
Primary Sponsor
An Act to ensure pay parity for county sheriffs' correction officers and jail officers
S1367
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to emergency medical services oversight
S2123
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to natural gas shut-off valves, gate boxes and public safety
S1665
Primary Sponsor
An Act exempting the city of Attleboro from the provisions of chapter 31 of the General Laws as they concern the recruitment and hiring of full-time permanent police officers
S1521
Primary Sponsor
An Act establishing a primary seat belt law
S1520
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to public safety in hoisting regulations
S1518
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to EMS and public safety
S170
Primary Sponsor
An Act establishing an online lottery
S487
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to pesticides
H4170
Joint Petition
An Act authorizing the town of Sharon to change the use of a certain parcel of land acquired for outdoor recreational purposes to a use for general municipal purposes
H4039
Joint Petition
An Act authorizing certain investments by the treasurer of the town of Norton
H3937
Joint Petition
An Act authorizing the town of Canton to grant temporary and permanent easements of certain land of the town situated in the town of Stoughton for highway purposes
S2460
Primary Sponsor
An Act protecting seniors and adults with disabilities from financial exploitation
H3905
Joint Petition
An Act expanding the Select Board of the town of Sharon
H3899
Joint Petition
An Act authorizing local voting rights for permanent resident aliens residing in Sharon
S1371
Primary Sponsor
An Act establishing testing protocol and care for victims of date rape drugs
S2235
Primary Sponsor
An Act to remediate and reopen the visitor information center on I-95 in Northern Bristol County for traveler safety and convenience and to promote regional tourism and economic development
S1181
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to transparency in the workplace
S1180
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to clean energy workforce standards and accountability
S1179
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to a just transition to clean energy
S1676
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to defining employees in Group 2
S1675
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to defining Court Service Coordinator in Group 2
S2005
Primary Sponsor
An Act designating October 15 as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day
S1178
Primary Sponsor
An Act providing hazard pay and protection for essential workers during a public health "State of Emergency" declaration
S1823
Primary Sponsor
An Act expanding the child tax credit
S82
Primary Sponsor
An Act authorizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to establish additional mandated reporters for the purpose of the protection and care of children
S1177
Primary Sponsor
An Act clarifying the wage act to protect hospital workers from being deprived of their wages
S1674
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to Massachusetts certified emergency telecommunicators
S1245
Primary Sponsor
An Act studying the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline, direct care nurses
S1673
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to 911 emergency telecommunicators inclusion in the heart bill
S1677
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to the amendment of M.G.L. c.32, section 4(2)(b) and 4(2)(c), solely as they relate to the calculation of Walter L. Guertin's pension
S273
Primary Sponsor
An Act ensuring student representation, Aidan's Law
S641
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to certain loans by the federal home loan bank
S1822
Primary Sponsor
An Act advancing renewable heating solutions for the Commonwealth
H262
Joint Petition
An Act relative to the licensure of appraisers
S168
Primary Sponsor
An Act expanding hoisting examination opportunities for spanish language speakers
S2233
Primary Sponsor
An Act directing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to conduct a highway noise study in Foxborough
S2234
Primary Sponsor
Resolve establishing the roadside litter prevention and cleanup task force
S1821
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to taxation of equipment used to provide broadband communication services
S275
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to licensed care and financial resource information for parents of newborns
S1671
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to retirement boards
S1672
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to retirement board membership
S969
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to the collateral consequences of alimony
S1370
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to student safety in interscholastic athletic activities
S640
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to insurance companies
S639
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to motor vehicle service contracts
S1175
Primary Sponsor
An Act to increase unemployment insurance benefits for low wage workers
S1369
Primary Sponsor
An Act to establish a pilot program for specialty pharmacy in urology
S2001
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to land acquisition
S132
Primary Sponsor
An Act relative to starter home school cost reimbursement
S131
Primary Sponsor
An Act encouraging the adoption of smart growth and starter home zoning districts
S169
Primary Sponsor
An Act modernizing lottery operations
S2004
Primary Sponsor
An Act discouraging employers from closing call centers and customer service operations in the Commonwealth and relocating overseas, and for other purposes
S172
Primary Sponsor
An Act to revitalize agriculture, conditioning and simulcasting
S274
Primary Sponsor
An Act to improve access, opportunity, and capacity in Massachusetts vocational-technical education
H250
Joint Petition
An Act authorizing the town of Mansfield to grant one additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be consumed on the premises
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