House
Bill 381, An Act establishing the
Massachusetts Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Collaborative
- Bill would establish the Massachusetts Hydrogen
and Fuel Cell Institute at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a consortium
of public and private colleges and universities with an interest in
collaborative research and education in fuel cell and hydrogen energy.
House Bill
569, An Act relative to teacher
testing
- Bill would require the use of the PRAXIS II testing
tool to certify Massachusetts
teachers.
House Bill
570, An Act requiring notification
by schools to parents
or guardians
- Bill would require the notification of schools
to parents when a felony is committed on school grounds.
House Bill
571, An Act relative to student
instruction
- Bill would provide young people with the skills
and tools necessary to succeed by incorporating a curriculum that
would teach time management, goal setting and self-motivation. Bill
would also create online resource for young people to identify, set,
track and achieve goals.
House Bill
869, An Act providing for the public
disclosure of quality indicators for the developmentally disabled
- Bill would establish a series of quality indicators
for residential facilities operated by the Department of Mental Retardation
for use by parents and consumers of services.
House Bill
1728, An Act to repeal the prohibition
of certain residents to marry in the Commonwealth
- Bill would repeal state statutes to allow non-
Massachusetts citizens
to marry in the Commonwealth.
House Bill
1729, An Act relative to employer
assisted housing
- Bill would establish a state subsidized program
to alleviate the housing shortage.
House Bill
1848, An Act concerning employee
privacy and mandatory employer meetings
- Bill would give employees the right to walk away
from political and religious indoctrination meetings and would bar
employers from firing or disciplining workers who choose not to attend
or who report unlawful or forced meetings.
House Bill
1993, An Act to protect the public
from condemned, vicious dogs
- Bill would shift the burden of cost for the housing
of condemned, vicious dogs from municipalities to dog owners during
the appeals process following an order of destruction.
House Bill
2251, An Act providing for the disclosure
of certain gifts made by pharmaceutical companies
- Bill would require all pharmaceutical manufacturing
companies doing business in Massachusetts
to disclose information pertaining to any gifts, payments or subsidies
that they give to any person who is authorized to prescribe, dispense
or purchase prescription drugs in Massachusetts.
House Bill
2252, An Act relative to the licensure
of exercise physiologists
- Bill would provide representation on the Allied
Health Board to Clinical Exercise Physiologists, allowing for state
licensure.
House Bill
2253, An Act to increase access
to birth and marriage records
- Bill would change current stature to allow those
children born out of wedlock to receive copies of their birth certificates.
House Bill
3129, An Act establishing a tax exemption
for contributions to college savings plans
- Bill would allow certain income tax exemptions
to contributors to 529 college savings plans.
House Bill 3726, An
Act relative to veteran-owned small business
- Bill would establish a state-wide goal of three
percent of all state contracts to be awarded to veteran-owned small
businesses.
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