Bills affecting your community in Massachusetts (2026 session)

To improve long-term care staffing and dignity for caregivers

To transform the Commonwealth’s emergency response system and create housing strategies to end the homelessness of unaccompanied adults

Relative to Parkinson's disease disability and death in firefighters

Relative to the LGBTQ aging commission

Relative to avoiding senior homelessness and maintaining senior housing stabilization of rents

Providing tax credits to promote the adoption of a dog or cat from a shelter

Relative to GIC healthcare coverage for group 4 members pending disability retirement

Authorizing the town of Belmont to increase the asset limitation ceiling, income limitation ceiling, and benefit limitation ceiling applicable to seniors applying for tax abatement pursuant to clauses 17D, 17E, and 41C of Section 5 of Chapter 59 of the General Laws

Study Order

Amending the statute of limitations relating to civil rights actions and criminal prosecutions for the sexual assault and rape of a child

Relative to senior tax exemption

To provide reduced or free fare on public transportation for students at public institutions of higher education

Relative to an ADA paratransit program riders' bill of rights

Promoting rideshare safety

Authorizing the town of Holliston to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption for debt exclusion construction projects

Labor and Workforce Development -- Extension Order

Relative to Grafton's senior tax exemption

Authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax abatements

Relative to veteran disability benefits

Relative to raising the minimum wage closer to a living wage in the commonwealth

Authorizing the transfer of a certain parcel of land in the town of Marion from the Open Space Acquisition Commission to the Select Board