The session will turn six weeks old Wednesday when the Senate plans to debate the basic internal and joint rules that govern branch operations. Legislators spent parts of January filing bills and are still waiting to receive committee assignments -- and for the committees themselves to be actually formed, which usually occurs after the rules debates unfold. The House and Senate last year approved an annual budget that underfunded the emergency family shelter system, which ran out of money about a week ago.
Amendments to the Senate rules proposals are due by 5 p. For a Legislature that struggles to pass budgets and finish its business on time and is said to be open to changes in the legislative calendar and workflow, the appetite to deviate from historical approaches to the workload has not changed much so far.
The next step will be a series of public hearings, the dates and locations of which have not been announced. After the Supreme Judicial Court upheld the MBTA Communities Act last month and made the Healey administration rewrite its guidelines that regulated the law, the administration gave communities that did not meet prior deadlines an extension until this coming week to comply. Cities and towns that host rapid transit service, commuter rail service, or are immediately adjacent to public transportation all previously had deadlines of Dec.
Under the emergency regulations that the Healey administration wrote in January following the SJC decision, communities that did not meet prior deadlines must submit a new action plan to the state with a plan to comply with the law by p.
These communities will then have until July 14, , to submit a district compliance application to the state. Communities designated as "adjacent small towns" still have until a Dec. Maura Healey turns She has said that her grandmother brought a handful of Massachusetts soil to place under the delivery table when she was born at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland on Feb.
