HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 5009

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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INITIATIVE PETITION OF 

                                                                  OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.

                                                                  BOSTON, JANUARY 3, 2018.

Timothy Carroll

Clerk of the House of Representatives

State House

Boston, Massachusetts 02133

     Sincerely,

WILLIAM FRANCIS GALVIN

Secretary of the Commonwealth.

AN INITIATIVE PETITION.

    Pursuant to Article XLVIII of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, as amended, the undersigned qualified voters of the Commonwealth, ten in number at least, hereby petition for the enactment into law of the following measure:

        FILED ON: 2/4/2026

 SECTION 1: Section 1 of chapter 150E of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding to the end of the seventh paragraph, titled "Employer" or "public employer", the following sentence: "In the case of employees of the committee for public counsel services, employer shall mean the committee for public counsel services or its designee."

 SECTION 2. Section 7 of said chapter 150E of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking the word "or" before the phrase "the state lottery commission" in line 16 and adding the following words after that phrase: "or the committee for public counsel services."

 SECTION 3. Said section 7 of said chapter 150E of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking the word "and" before the words "the state lottery commission" appearing in line 34 and inserting after the word "commission" in line 35 the following words: "and committee for public counsel services."

FIRST TEN SIGNERS

CERTIFICATE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Honorable William Francis Galvin

Secretary of the Commonwealth

One Ashburton Place, Room 1705

Boston, Massachusetts 02108

RE: Initiative Petition No. H25-22: An Act relative to Labor Relations Policies for Committee for Public Counsel Services Employees 

Dear Secretary Galvin:

 In accordance with the provisions of Article 48 of the Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution, I have reviewed the above-referenced initiative petition, which was submitted to me on or before the first Wednesday of August of this year.

 I hereby certify that this measure is in proper form for submission to the people; that the measure is not, either affirmatively or negatively, substantially the same as any measure which has been qualified for submission or submitted to the people at either of the two preceding biennial state elections; and that it contains only subjects that are related or are mutually dependent and which are not excluded from the initiative process pursuant to Article 48, the Initiative, Part 2, Section 2.

 In accordance with Article 48, I enclose a fair, concise summary of the measure.

Sincerely,

INSPECTOR GENERAL,

Attorney General.

Summary of H25-22.