Massachusetts Senate

Speaking on the phone with WBSM News on Wednesday, State Senator Mark Montigny spoke about the Senate's decision to adopt his amendment to the state's Health Act.

Two state representatives offered differing viewpoints on the recent pay raise for state legislators on Friday’s edition of The Barry Richard Show on WBSM. The bill came about after an advisory committee pushed it through last week, the day before the Presidential Inauguration, in quick fashion...

Minimum wage workers aren't the only ones getting a pay boost in 2017. Governor Charlie Baker's administration announced on Thursday that Massachusetts state legislators will see a pay increase next year. The annual base compensation for members of the House and Senate will go from the current $60,032 to $62,547, an increase of about 4...

The Massachusetts Senate has overwhelming endorsed a budget rider banning single-use plastic bags at many supermarkets and stores in the Bay State.  The vote was 29-9. The State House News Service says the proposal would ban the use of plastic bags at stores with gross square footage of 3,000 or more or chains with three or more locations.  B...

The Massachusetts House is expected next Wednesday to follow the lead of the Senate in passing a transgender rights bill that offers protections to the transgender community while also allowing people to use public facilities that match their gender identity rather than their biological sex. The...

The Massachusetts Senate is poised to debate bills designed to protect the social media accounts of workers and allow the sale of alcohol on Sunday mornings.

The Massachusetts Senate has approved a welfare overhaul bill. The bill would revive a 1995 state program designed to help place welfare recipients in full-time work and require the Department of Transitional Assistance to assign specialists to help high-risk recipients...

The Massachusetts Senate is planning to debate a compromise welfare overhaul bill.

A bill heading to the state Senate allows liquor stores to open two hours earlier on Sundays.

The Massachusetts House of Representatives has unanimously approved a bill aimed at softening the impact of new federal flood insurance rules on many coastal homeowners.