Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Election Laws

Event Details

Status:

Completed

Event Date:

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Start Time:

1:00 PM

Location:

B-1 and Virtual

Event Description

Election Administration

The Chairs will limit testimony to three minutes per individual and ten minutes per panel. The Chairs reserve the right to call public officials out of turn. The public is invited to participate in this hybrid hearing, which will be live streamed on the Massachusetts Legislature website. To register to testify, you must provide contact information through THIS FORM by 5:00 PM on Monday, June 16, 2025. Written testimony may be submitted to the Joint Committee on Election Laws at 24 Beacon Street, Room 413-F, Boston, MA 02133, or by e-mail to Karen.Zirkle@mahouse.gov and Emerson.Gagnon@masenate.gov.

Please note that all written submissions may be made available to the public upon request. If you have any questions, please email Karen.Zirkle@mahouse.gov and Emerson.Gagnon@masenate.gov.

Please be advised that the schedule and agenda are subject to change at the discretion of the chairs.

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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on Election Laws	6/17/2025 1:00 PM	00:52:55

Election Administration 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
S.497	An Act clarifying the role of governor’s councillor on the ballot	Michael J. Barrett
S.501	An Act relative to the annual street listing	Nick Collins
S.502	An Act establishing the right for every citizen to have a secret ballot	Joanne M. Comerford
S.509	An Act relative to the preparation of bilingual ballots in English and Haitian Creole in the city known as the town of Randolph	William J. Driscoll, Jr.
S.513	An Act establishing the state primary to the second Tuesday of May	Ryan C. Fattman
S.518	An Act for political party endorsement reform	Jason M. Lewis
S.519	An Act for primary election reform	Jason M. Lewis
S.520	An Act to improve the fairness, and public transparency of all individuals, who may have, and/or intersect, with election officials, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts	Jason M. Lewis
S.522	An Act relative to the board of registrars	Jason M. Lewis
S.527	An Act relative to early voting cost reimbursements	Rebecca L. Rausch
S.528	An Act enhancing jurisdiction of the state ballot law commission	Rebecca L. Rausch
S.532	An Act promoting democracy in primary elections	Rebecca L. Rausch
S.533	An Act to ensure a complete, accurate, and equitable census count	Rebecca L. Rausch
S.534	An Act upgrading elections infrastructure, improving voting access, and reducing municipal burden	Rebecca L. Rausch
S.535	An Act to fairly fund early voting	Bruce E. Tarr
S.536	An Act relative to accountability for defective and spoiled ballots.	Bruce E. Tarr
H.803	An Act relative to candidate information on ballots	Natalie M. Blais
H.804	An Act relative to gender neutral language in elections law	Natalie M. Blais
H.805	An Act clarifying the role of Governor’s Councillor on the ballot	Simon Cataldo
H.808	An Act requiring a residency affidavit by a candidate	Tackey Chan
H.815	An Act relative to town committee elections and membership	Mark J. Cusack
H.819	An Act relative to random placement for candidate names and removal of incumbent information on primary and state ballots	Mindy Domb
H.822	An Act relative to absentee voting	Paul J. Donato
H.824	An Act relative to political designations	Paul J. Donato
H.827	An Act relative to the voting procedures for presidential electors	Paul K. Frost
H.830	An Act relative to the preparation of street lists by registrars	William C. Galvin
H.832	An Act relative to uniformity of ballots in polling places	Sean Garballey
H.837	An Act relative to election ballots	Richard M. Haggerty
H.840	An Act relative to special election scheduling	Russell E. Holmes
H.843	An Act relative to the voting procedures for presidential electors	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
H.847	An Act relative to election laws	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
H.851	An Act to ensure a complete, accurate, and equitable census count	David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf
H.853	An Act reforming the composition of the boards of registrars of voters	Kate Lipper-Garabedian
H.856	An Act relative to reprecincting	Michael J. Moran
H.859	An Act to consolidate ballot request notifications	Kelly W. Pease
H.860	An Act relative to early voting and vote by mail	Alice Hanlon Peisch
H.864	An Act relative to mail-in ballots	Orlando Ramos
H.871	An Act moving the date of regular primary elections	Kenneth P. Sweezey
H.877	An Act relative to how Electoral College votes are delegated	Marcus S. Vaughn
H.878	An Act relative to public information requests	Marcus S. Vaughn
H.880	An Act relative to city and town clerks mailing of early voting ballots	Tommy Vitolo
H.881	An Act relative to voter registration	Tommy Vitolo
H.882	An Act updating political terminology	Susannah M. Whipps
H.3943	An Act relative to improving elections	James C. Arena-DeRosa
H.4108	An Act relative to the death of a candidate running for public office	Kate Donaghue
H.4055	An Act relative to recall elections in the town of Lanesborough	John Barrett, III

Present (8)

Daniel J. Hunt (HOU)

Leigh Davis (HOU)

Paul K. Frost (HOU)

Ryan M. Hamilton (HOU)

Tara T. Hong (HOU)

Rita A. Mendes (HOU)

Joan Meschino (HOU)

David Allen Robertson (HOU)

Absent (3)

Marc T. Lombardo (HOU)
*

Christopher M. Markey (HOU)
*

Priscila S. Sousa (HOU)
*

	Document
	Summary H.878
	Summary H.877
	Summary H.856
	Summary H.880
	Summary H.3943
	Summary H.853
	Summary H.828 (1)
	Summary H.4055
	Summary H.4108
	Summary H.881
	Summary H.882
	Smmary H.859
	Summary 851
	Summary H.860
	H847 summary
	H843 summary
	H840 summary
	H837 summary
	H832 summary
	H827 summary (1)
	H824 summary
	H830 summary
	H822 summary
	H819 summary
	H815 summary
	H808 summary
	H805 Summary
	H804 Summary
	H803 Summary

Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Election Laws

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