Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on the Judiciary

Event Details

Status:: Completed
Event Date:: Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Start Time:: 1:00 PM
Location:: A-2 and Virtual
Event Description: Hearing #7: Emerging Tech, Public Policy and Privacy Chaired by Michael S. Day

The Chair will limit testimony and reserves the right to call public officials out of turn. The public is invited to participate in this hearing, which will be livestreamed on the Legislature's website. To register to testify virtually, you must provide contact information on this form by 5:00 p.m. on July 11, 2025. Once registered, you will receive further instruction on how to participate. All those wishing to testify in person may sign up on the day of the hearing but are encouraged to sign up ahead of time at the link above.    

Written testimony may be submitted by mail to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary at 24 Beacon Street, Room 136, Boston, MA 02133 or, for House bills, by email to Talia.Quinn@mahouse.gov or for Senate bills to Kyle.Fields@masenate.gov. All written testimony received by the Committee will be made publicly available, provided however, the Chairs may limit and redact testimony that includes sensitive personal information or information that may jeopardize the health, wellness or safety of the testifier or others.   

Subject to extensions, the Committee must report on House bills considered during this hearing by September 13, 2025 subject to House Rule 27.   
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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on the Judiciary - 7-15-2025	7/15/2025 1:00 PM	05:53:58

Emerging Tech, Public Policy and Privacy 1:00pm - 8:00pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
H.1606	An Act relative to law enforcement access to prescription monitoring data	Michael S. Chaisson
H.1608	An Act relative to restraining orders as they pertain to hate crimes	Tackey Chan
H.1614	An Act relative to stop fraudulent representation of business against performers	Tackey Chan
H.1615	An Act preventing an individual’s image and voice from exploitation	Tackey Chan
H.1624	An Act establishing a task force to study equitable access to psilocybin and other entheogenic plants	Mike Connolly
H.1643	An Act to protect the privacy of 911 callers	Michael S. Day
H.1669	An Act relative to the effective enforcement of municipal ordinances and by-laws	Kate Donaghue
H.1675	An Act to advance hate-crime protections for victims who are targeted due to their gender	Michelle M. DuBois
H.1678	An Act to ensure all Massachusetts litigants due process of law	Michelle M. DuBois
H.1684	An Act to amend the civil rights law, in relation to reporting a non-emergency incident involving a member of a protected class	Tricia Farley-Bouvier
H.1688	An Act relative to unmanned aerial vehicles	Michael J. Finn
H.1715	An Act relative to locating missing persons via mobile data (Kelsey's Bill)	Colleen M. Garry
H.1725	An Act to ban the release of balloons	Homar Gómez
H.1726	An Act relative to criminal disposition of limited psilocybin possession offenses	Homar Gómez
H.1738	An Act relative to the free flow of information	Richard M. Haggerty
H.1747	An Act relative to safe reporting	Natalie M. Higgins
H.1751	An Act concerning a right of publicity	Kate Hogan
H.1754	An Act establishing an internet bill of rights	Russell E. Holmes
H.1763	An Act relative to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism	Steven S. Howitt
H.1773	An Act prohibiting motor vehicle tracking devices without consent	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
H.1776	An Act to ban phishing	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
H.1797	An Act establishing a special legislative commission to study the use of IVRs and other strategies by social media platforms	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
H.1855	An Act for uniform fiduciary access to digital assets	Jay D. Livingstone
H.1858	An Act relative to removing criminal penalties for limited psilocybin possession	Marc T. Lombardo
H.1915	An Act relative to the malicious doxing of personal information	Tram T. Nguyen
H.1926	An Act relative to tenant data privacy	Steven Owens
H.1930	An Act empowering student-athletes through NIL rights	Francisco E. Paulino
H.1931	An Act to enhance protections against child exploitation and misuse of emerging technologies	Francisco E. Paulino
H.1946	An Act to implement the recommendations of the special commission on facial recognition technology	Orlando Ramos
H.1968	An Act relative to access to a decedent's electronic mail accounts	Jeffrey N. Roy
H.1978	An Act to ensure the responsible use of advanced robotic technologies	Lindsay N. Sabadosa
H.2027	An Act to protect electronic privacy	Erika Uyterhoeven
H.2036	An Act prohibiting electronic tracking of motor vehicles	Marcus S. Vaughn
S.1053	An Act to implement the recommendations of the special commission on facial recognition technology	Cynthia Stone Creem
S.1082	An Act relative to the effective enforcement of municipal ordinances and by-laws	James B. Eldridge
S.1089	An Act strengthening identity theft laws	Ryan C. Fattman
S.1108	An Act prohibiting the malicious doxing of personal information	Barry R. Finegold
S.1156	An Act to protect the privacy of 911 callers	Jason M. Lewis
S.1208	An Act to ensure the responsible use of advanced robotic technologies	Michael O. Moore
S.1210	An Act concerning the disclosure of the home address and home contact information of certain public safety officials	Michael O. Moore
S.1252	An Act establishing a right to freedom from doxing	Rebecca L. Rausch
S.1253	An Act to protect the free flow of information in Massachusetts	Rebecca L. Rausch

Present (10)

Michael S. Day (HOU)

Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. (HOU)

Simon Cataldo (HOU)

Brandy Fluker-Reid (HOU)

Natalie M. Higgins (HOU)

Meghan K. Kilcoyne (HOU)

Rita A. Mendes (HOU)

Thomas W. Moakley (HOU)

Adrianne Pusateri Ramos (HOU)

Alyson M. Sullivan-Almeida (HOU)

Absent (1)

Colleen M. Garry (HOU)
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