Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

Event Details

Status:: Completed
Event Date:: Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Start Time:: 10:00 AM
Location:: A-1 and Virtual
Event Description: Matters concerning state regulations, land bills, and honorary designations

All matters filed in the House that are listed above are required to be reported on by November 9, 2025, subject to extensions consistent with House Rule 27.

Please be advised that the schedule and agenda are subject to change at the discretion of the chairs. Further, the Chairs may schedule an executive session to coincide with this hearing. Per Committee Rules, Joint Committee members will be given any advance notice and materials to review.

IN-PERSON/VIRTUAL TESTIMONY REGISTRATION: Legislators, public officials, and the public must register to provide oral testimony. To register to testify virtually or in-person, please provide the contact information requested in this form by 4:00 PM on Friday, September 5. Once registered, you will receive further instruction on how to participate virtually.

WRITTEN TESTIMONY: Written testimony can be submitted via email to Nicole Janeiro at nicole.janeiro@mahouse.gov or Riley Nichols at riley.nichols@masenate.gov. Alternatively, testimony can be physically mailed to either the House or Senate Chair:

Chair Antonio F.D. Cabral

Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

ATTN: Svetlana Yefimenko

24 Beacon St, Suite 466

Boston, MA 02133

Chair Nick Collins

Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

ATTN: Riley Nichols

24 Beacon St, Room 511-A

Boston, MA 02133

Written testimony is encouraged and will continue to be accepted after the hearing until the relevant bill is acted upon.

Please be advised that all oral and written testimony may be publicly available.

A livestream of this hearing will be available on the General Court website, https://malegislature.gov/

You may contact committee staff with any questions by emailing at nicole.janeiro@mahouse.gov or riley.nichols@masenate.gov
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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight - 9-9-2025	9/9/2025 10:00 AM	00:55:40

Matters regarding state regulations, land bills, and honorary designations 10:00am - 1:00pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
S.2099	An Act to provide sunlight to state government	James B. Eldridge
S.2112	An Act relative to increased safety standards in the construction industry	Nick Collins
S.2116	An Act providing for gender-neutral bathrooms	Joanne M. Comerford
S.2117	An Act providing that no state funds will be allocated to any agency, school, university, etc. that does research on animals	Joanne M. Comerford
S.2118	An Act increasing government accessibility for persons who are blind or visually impaired	Joanne M. Comerford
S.2119	An Act providing for transparency and geographic equity in all state grant funding	Joanne M. Comerford
S.2162	An Act providing for the creation of a Massachusetts COVID-19 Memorial	Jason M. Lewis
S.2170	An Act updating the flag of the Commonwealth	Paul W. Mark
H.3289	An Act relative to the enhanced disposition of surplus motor vehicles owned by the commonwealth or authorities established by the state	Bruce J. Ayers
H.3307	An Act banning hostile architecture targeting unhoused individuals	Mike Connolly
H.3311	An Act advancing equity for rural communities receiving state grants	Leigh Davis
H.3317	An Act providing for gender-neutral bathrooms	Mindy Domb
H.3321	An Act modernizing microphotographic recording of documents	Daniel M. Donahue
H.3329	An Act relative to reimbursing traveling expenses of governor’s council members	Tricia Farley-Bouvier
H.3355	An Act relative to prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations	Steven S. Howitt
H.3356	An Act relative to transparency for grant applications	Steven S. Howitt
H.3362	An Act relative to requiring premium impact statements	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
H.3378	An Act to simplify the language used by state agencies	David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf
H.3892	An Act establishing offices of legislative research and fiscal analysis	Tricia Farley-Bouvier
H.4368	An Act authorizing the division of capital asset management and maintenance to release a certain sewer line easement in the West Roxbury section of the city of Boston	William F. MacGregor
H.4415	An Act relative to certain affordable housing and cultural space in the Brighton section of the city of Boston	Michael J. Moran

Present (8)

Antonio F. D. Cabral (HOU)

Jennifer Balinsky Armini (HOU)

Hannah Bowen (HOU)

Michael S. Chaisson (HOU)

Leigh Davis (HOU)

Dennis C. Gallagher (HOU)

Carmine Lawrence Gentile (HOU)

Estela A. Reyes (HOU)

Absent (3)

Colleen M. Garry (HOU) *

Hannah Kane (HOU) *

Chynah Tyler (HOU) *

Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

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