Bills affecting Formerly incarcerated or family of in Massachusetts — 2026 session

Granting creditable service for Jason Patrissi

To ensure access to medical parole

Relative to further defining employees classified in Group 4

Amending retirement benefits for certain employees of the parole board

Strengthening police reform

Relative to electronic monitoring department personnel pension group classification

To end lifetime parole for juveniles and emerging adults

Concerning the arrest without a warrant of persons on probation and temporary custody

Relative to expungement of juvenile and young adult records

To remove collateral consequences and protect the presumption of innocence

Regarding probation violations

To implement recommendations of the Commission on structural racism in the parole process

Relative to the expungement of non-convictions

Relative to probation officers

Relative to probation violations

To promote timely access to parole hearings

Promoting fairness in parole

Relative to judicial discretion for probation

Relative to the collateral consequences of alimony

Establishing presumptive parole