Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources

Event Details

Status:: Completed
Event Date:: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Start Time:: 1:00 PM
Location:: A-2 and Virtual
Event Description: Waterways, Wetlands, Water Resources and Oceans

The Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources will host a hybrid public hearing on Wednesday April 26, 2023 at 1PM and will accept written and oral testimony in-person and virtually on the legislation listed in the docket below.  

Persons seeking to provide oral testimony both virtually and in-person must pre-register by completing the form accessible via the following link: https://forms.office.com/g/NwYiJQCw5D .

Please pre-register by Monday, April 24, 2023 at 5PM. Once registered, you will receive an invitation to join the hearing one day prior to the hearing if providing oral testimony virtually. Please note there is a time limit of 3 minutes per person for both in-person and virtual oral testimony. 

Written testimony may also be submitted to the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources by email to: JointCommittee.Environment@malegislature.gov.

Pre-registration through the above form is not required for written testimony. There is no formal deadline for written testimony, though a timely submission allows the Committee time to thoroughly review testimony.

Please contact Andrea Bolduc, the committee's Researcher, with any questions at andrea.bolduc@mahouse.gov, or Joan Moscillo, the committee's Research Director, at joan.moscillo@mahouse.gov.
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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources -- 4-26-2023	4/26/2023 1:00 PM	03:13:49

Waterways, Wetlands, Water Resources and Oceans 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
H.28	An Act to provide sustainable water resources in the town of Tyngsborough	Colleen M. Garry
H.3582	An Act relative to water flow in the Central Plymouth County Water District	Kathleen R. LaNatra
H.744	An Act establishing a revolving fund to supplement the funding of waterway projects and coastal protection initiatives	Bruce J. Ayers
H.765	An Act to establish a grant and loan program for low noise, low emissions landscape maintenance equipment	Michelle L. Ciccolo
H.808	An Act relative to emergency water management plans	Denise C. Garlick
H.852	An Act relative to municipal assistance for clean water and economic development infrastructure	Jay D. Livingstone
H.861	An Act relative to maintaining adequate water supplies through effective drought management	Joan Meschino
H.864	An Act relative to clean lakes and waterways in the commonwealth	Lenny Mirra
H.879	An Act protecting the rights of municipalities and districts	Alice Hanlon Peisch
H.890	An Act responding to the threat of invasive species	David M. Rogers
H.892	An Act to assist municipal and district ratepayers	Jeffrey N. Roy
H.896	An Act relative to the Quabbin Watershed Advisory Committee	Aaron L. Saunders
H.897	An Act relative to the Quabbin watershed and regional equity	Aaron L. Saunders
H.905	An Act to create a Merrimack River collaborative	Dawne Shand
H.906	An Act to accelerate and streamline wetlands restoration	Dawne Shand
S.447	An Act relative to the Quabbin watershed and regional equity	Joanne M. Comerford
S.451	An Act to establish a grant and loan program for low-noise, low-emissions landscape maintenance equipment	Cynthia Stone Creem
S.457	An Act to accelerate and streamline wetlands restoration	Brendan P. Crighton
S.475	An Act relative to maintaining adequate water supplies through effective drought management	James B. Eldridge
S.505	An Act relative to the Ware river watershed advisory committee	Anne M. Gobi
S.508	An Act responding to the threat of invasive species	Patricia D. Jehlen
S.555	An Act relative to the Quabbin Watershed Advisory Committee	Jacob R. Oliveira
S.578	An Act relative to maintaining adequate water supplies through effective drought management	Bruce E. Tarr
S.586	An Act to create a Merrimack River Collaborative	Bruce E. Tarr
S.589	An Act to assist municipal and district ratepayers	John C. Velis
H.745	An Act relative to community preservation funds for coastal infrastructure	Bruce J. Ayers
H.792	An Act establishing the Blue Communities Program	Dylan A. Fernandes
H.846	An Act relative to a future blue economy	Kathleen R. LaNatra
H.847	An Act to establish a blue economy workforce pipeline	Kathleen R. LaNatra
S.534	An Act to establish a blue economy workforce pipeline	Susan L. Moran
S.535	An Act relative to a future blue economy	Susan L. Moran
S.541	An Act protecting the upper Cape water supply reserve	Susan L. Moran
S.546	An Act relative to community preservation funds for coastal infrastructure	Patrick M. O'Connor
S.577	An Act providing for alternative DPA compliance	Bruce E. Tarr

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