Patricia D. Jehlen Senator
D
Somerville
Addresses
- State House
- Room 513
- Boston, MA 02133
- Phone: 617-722-1578
- Fax: 617-722-1117
- Email: Patricia.Jehlen@masenate.gov
Committee Membership
- Chair, Joint Committee on Elder Affairs
- Vice Chair, Joint Committee on Education
- Assistant Vice Chair, Joint Committee on Ways and Means
- Joint Committee on the Judiciary
- Joint Committee on Housing
- Assistant Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Ways and Means
| Bill | Docket | Bill Title |
|---|---|---|
| SD693 | For legislation to increase the personal care allowance of residents of long-term care facilities | |
| SD699 | For legislation to promote equal choice a cost savings in health care | |
| SD704 | For legislation to promote the development of small house nursing homes in the Commonwealth | |
| SD710 | For legislation to regard MassHealth applications | |
| SD713 | For legislation relative to charter school enrollment | |
| SD715 | For legislation to increase the cost of living adjustment (cola) base | |
| SD716 | For legislation relative to the rights of faculty members at the University of Massachusetts | |
| SD718 | For legislation to eliminate age discrimination in the MassHealth program | |
| SD721 | For legislation to establish a task force relative to the Commonwealth's direct-care workforce. | |
| SD722 | For legislation to establish an advisory committee on residential care facilities | |
| SD726 | For legislation to include transitory student enrollment in the calculation of aide under Chapter 70 | |
| SD727 | For legislation to increase the property tax deferral for seniors | |
| SD730 | For legislation to provide time to develop better measures of and assistance for student learning. | |
| SD734 | For legislation to protect the health and safety of elders with hoarding disorder | |
| SD735 | For legislation relative to student assessment data | |
| SD737 | For legislation to remove limitations on quality assessment of all charter school proposals. | |
| HD1023 | To preserve affordable health coverage for residents of the Commonwealth | |
| HD1144 | For legislation to establish a division of indoor environments within the Department of Public Health | |
| SD1231 | For legislation to strengthen the enforcement of certain dog laws. | |
| SD1238 | For legislation to require the disclosure of public funding. | |
| SD1245 | For legislation to eliminate archaic language pertaining to individuals with disabilities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts | |
| SD1273 | For legislation to protect temporary workers’ unemployment benefits | |
| SD1279 | For legislation to reduce unwanted communication from creditors to protect the peace and privacy of residents | |
| SD1308 | For legislation relative to training of elder services workers in dementia and Alzheimer’s | |
| SD1349 | For legislation to preserve affordable health coverage for Massachusetts residents. | |
| SD1369 | For legislation relative to the tipped minimum wage | |
| SD1370 | For legislation relative to sleep deprivation avoidance and promotion of good sleeping practices | |
| SD1373 | For legislation relative to part-time higher education faculty eligibility in the state retirement system | |
| SD1380 | For legislation relative to the eligibility of certain faculty for contributory group insurance of public higher educational institutions | |
| SD1387 | For legislation to decriminalize non-violent and verbal student misconduct | |
| SD1391 | For legislation to provide greater fairness in insurance policies | |
| SD1401 | An Act further defining the role of school resource officers | |
| SD1411 | For legislation relative to the use of community corrections for pre-trial detainees and criminal defendants | |
| SD1417 | For legislation relative to medical placement of terminal and incapacitated inmates. | |
| SD1423 | For legislation to establish pay equity. | |
| HD1650 | Relative to junior operator's licenses | |
| SD1783 | For legislation to promote awareness of safe recreation in public waterways. | |
| SD1786 | For legislation to protect student privacy. | |
| SD1788 | For legislation to protect senior citizens from third party tax collection. | |
| SD1795 | For legislation to expand access to work release | |
| SD1830 | For legislation to update the definition of felony larceny | |
| SD1879 | For legislation relative to end of life choices of inmates | |
| HD2741 | For legislation to provide emergency aid to certain elderly and disabled residents | |
| HD3055 | Relative to the process for the investigation of officer-involved deaths | |
| HD3436 | For legislation to legalize marijuana and establish a tax on the cannabis industry |
| Bill | Docket | Bill Title |
|---|---|---|
| SD11 | For legislation relative to the humane treatment of disabled persons | |
| SD39 | For legislation relative to compliance of condominium associations. | |
| SD41 | For legislation relative to Medicaid eligibility for seniors. | |
| SD44 | For legislation to ensure effective health care cost control. | |
| SD47 | For legislation relative to spouses as caregivers. | |
| HD78 | Relative to charter schools | |
| SD128 | For legislation relative to just cause terminations. | |
| SD130 | For legislation to authorize municipal increases in minimum wages. | |
| SD194 | For legislation to establish a comprehensive adaptation management plan in response to climate change | |
| HD196 | Relative to the enrollment of students in charter schools | |
| HD201 | That the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Public Health develop health risk assessment guidelines of proposed school construction sites | |
| HD203 | For legislation to reduce plastic bag use through regulations and incentives | |
| HD218 | For legislation to to protect drinking water from hydraulic fracturing | |
| HD231 | For legislation to develop housing plans for families, with minor children, who are being evicted from publicly subsidized housing | |
| SD235 | For legislation relative to patient safety | |
| HD238 | Relative to recidivism reducing program reporting by the Department of Correction | |
| HD270 | Relative to business practices between motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors and dealers | |
| SD285 | For legislation to combat climate change. | |
| HD289 | Relative to the teaching of health education in schools | |
| SD306 | For legislation to improve the Commonwealth's economy with a strong minimum wage. | |
| SD307 | For legislation to establish civil and criminal penalties for the female genital mutilation of minors. | |
| SD315 | For legislation relative to employees social media privacy protection. | |
| SD317 | For legislation to promote the planning and development of sustainable communities | |
| SD336 | For legislation relative to GIC dental and vision benefits for municipal employees. | |
| SD342 | For legislation to regulate the use of automatic license plate reader systems. | |
| SD367 | For legislation relative to Congo conflict minerals. | |
| HD369 | An Act establishing the genetic engineering transparency food and seed labeling act | |
| SD396 | For legislation to invest in our communities and tax exemptions. | |
| SD398 | For legislation relative to equal access to public places regardless of gender identity. | |
| HD430 | Relative to military equipment procurement by local law enforcement departments | |
| HD459 | Requiring health care coverage for the medically necessary treatment for disease, illness, injury, or bodily dysfunction required by a student's individual educational program | |
| SD466 | For legislation to ensure continued humane animal care and protect family farms in Massachusetts. | |
| SD473 | For legislation to establish a public health option. | |
| HD486 | For legislation to require judicial review of foreclosures on residential mortgages | |
| SD492 | For legislation to repeal the property tax exemption for Massport lessees. | |
| SD508 | For legislation to provide fair chances for employment | |
| HD509 | Relative to collective bargaining for teachers and other school employees | |
| SD519 | For legislation to regulate the use of credit reports by employers | |
| HD582 | For legislation to eliminate age discrimination in the Masshealth Program | |
| HD588 | For legislation to reduce human exposure to particulate matter pollution | |
| SD600 | For legislation relative to sunsetting tax expenditures. | |
| SD625 | For legislation relative to public investment in fossil fuels. | |
| SD633 | For legislation relative to home energy efficiency. | |
| SD648 | For legislation relative to ivory and rhino horn trafficking. | |
| SD682 | For legislation relative to police training | |
| HD689 | For legislation to require certification of all public school teachers | |
| SD690 | For legislation relative to the eligibility of students for in-state tuition rates and fees at public higher educational institutions. | |
| SD691 | For legislation explore alternative funding sources to ensure safe and reliable transportation | |
| SD707 | For legislation to promote purchasing from social enterprises by governmental bodies | |
| SD714 | For legislation to create a maximum allowable check-cashing rate | |
| SD733 | For legislation to establish and financing a drug collection and disposal program. | |
| HD736 | Relative to pregnancy, childbirth, or a related condition protection of employees and job applicants | |
| SD736 | For legislation to improve the collection and analsis of data realitve to traffic stops. | |
| SD739 | For legislation relative to pedestrian stop data. | |
| SD743 | For legislation relative to language opportunity for our kids. | |
| HD764 | For legislation to prohibit discrimination in the issuance of group or individual disability, accident or sickness insurance policies | |
| SD765 | For legislation relative to the compostion of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education | |
| SD771 | For legislation relative to CARE | |
| SD784 | An Act relative to the disclosure of toxic chemicals in children’s products | |
| HD789 | Relative to the effect of certain behavioral health disorders on certain disability insurance policies | |
| SD809 | For legislation relative to the judicial enforcement of noncompetition agreements | |
| HD825 | For legislation to designate certain law enforcement records as public records | |
| HD831 | For legislation to authorize municipalities to protect low and moderate income tenants and units of governmentally involved housing | |
| SD831 | For legislation to strengthen the Massachusetts home care program. | |
| SD852 | For legislation to establish a living wage for employees of big box retail stores and fast food chains. | |
| SD878 | For legislation to improve vocational training opportunities for unemployed workers | |
| SD894 | For legislation to require health care coverage for the emergency psychiatric services | |
| HD901 | For legislation to prohibit the use of procedures which cause physical pain or deny a reasonable humane existence to persons with disabilities | |
| SD920 | For legislation to prevent unnecessary vacancies in foreclosed homes | |
| HD936 | For legislation to provide for the establishment of senior citizen safety zones in cities and towns | |
| HD940 | Relative to authorizing the establishment of recreational traffic safety zones in cities and towns | |
| HD941 | Relative to homeless and unaccompanied students | |
| SD968 | For legislation relative to expungement of criminal or juvenile records for individuals who committed offenses as children or young adults | |
| SD974 | For legislation to protect animals during pet sales. | |
| SD996 | For legislation to establish Medicare for all in Massachusetts | |
| SD999 | For legislation to improve access to child and adolescent mental health services | |
| SD1001 | For legislation to promote restorative justice practices | |
| SD1016 | For legislation to promote higher education among employees of human services provider organizations | |
| HD1018 | For legislation to prohibit the participation of health care professionals in the torture and abuse of prisoners | |
| SD1023 | For legislation to preserve eligibility for PACE program and certain waivered participants. | |
| SD1025 | For legislation to decriminalize being in the presence of heroin. | |
| SD1028 | For legislation to protect the Commonwealth's residents from identity theft | |
| SD1037 | For legislation to create an advance directives registry | |
| HD1041 | Relative to access to health insurance for human service providers and their employees | |
| SD1065 | For legislation to reduce recidivism, curb unnecessary spending, and ensure appropriate use of segregation. | |
| SD1071 | For legislation to provide municipal control of liquor licenses. | |
| SD1088 | For legislation to improve access to public records. | |
| SD1100 | For legislation to regulate central service technicians. | |
| HD1107 | For legislation to compare total health care spending with projected single payer health care system spending | |
| SD1110 | For legislation to improve the earned income credit for working families | |
| HD1129 | Relative to turnaround plans for underperforming schools | |
| SD1150 | For legislation relative to equitable health care pricing | |
| HD1151 | For legislation to establish a single-payer health insurance trust fund | |
| HD1152 | For legislation to allow teachers currently employed and receiving compensation to serve on the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education | |
| HD1186 | Relative to fees for indigent defendants | |
| HD1187 | An Act requiring audiovisual recordings of certain police interrogations | |
| SD1189 | For legislation relative to women’s health and economic equity | |
| SD1198 | For legislation relative to requiring child-resistant packaging of nicotine liquid containers | |
| HD1200 | Relative to the classification and punishment for certain offenses in the commonwealth | |
| SD1200 | For legislation relative to modernizing tobacco control and protecting the health of minors | |
| SD1215 | For legislation to authorize municipalities to protect low and moderate income tenants and units of governmentally involved housing | |
| HD1234 | Relative to tax havens | |
| SD1249 | For legislation to repeal the sales tax exemption for jet fuel. | |
| SD1250 | For legislation relative to an employee protection act. | |
| SD1280 | For legislation to establish a education loan repayment program for social workers in areas of need | |
| SD1314 | For legislation to establish a commission relative to group purchasing of health insurance for private sector human service workers | |
| SD1355 | For legislation relative to the Architectural Access Board. | |
| SD1357 | For legislation relative to regional transportation ballot initiatives. | |
| SD1362 | For legislation relative to student sex education. | |
| HD1370 | For legislation to strengthen the enforcement of certain dog laws | |
| SD1378 | For legislation relative to protecting consumers of gas and electricity from paying for leaked and unaccounted for gas | |
| SD1392 | For legislation relative to state contracting | |
| SD1404 | For legislation relative to corporations, shareholders, and political expenditures | |
| HD1412 | Relative to the prevention and elimination of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression within the Department of Elder Affairs. | |
| SD1421 | For legislation to update public health laws. | |
| SD1469 | For legislation relative to training for law enforcement. | |
| HD1471 | Relative to providing a public education system of sufficient quality | |
| HD1477 | Relative to expanding eligibility for diversion to treatment for criminal offenders | |
| SD1487 | For legislation to create higher education opportunities for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. | |
| SD1491 | For legislation to reform pretrial process. | |
| SD1493 | For legislation relative to local approval for charter schools. | |
| HD1502 | For legislation to protect patients approved by physicians and certified by the Department of Public Health to access medical marijuana | |
| HD1503 | For legislation to enhance municipal fiscal stability through a special education stabilization fund | |
| SD1510 | For legislation to increase container recycling in the Commonwealth. | |
| HD1587 | Relative to license plate tracking | |
| SD1616 | For legislation relative to net metering, community shared solar and energy storage | |
| SD1648 | For legislation related to unfunded mandates on public schools | |
| SD1663 | For legislation relative to economic development tax credits | |
| SD1665 | For legislation relative to motor vehicle license suspension | |
| HD1674 | Relative to providing care and comfort for the terminally ill | |
| HD1698 | Relative to establishing a foreign language education seal of biliteracy for students | |
| SD1698 | For legislation to restore community trust in Massachusetts law enforcement | |
| SD1699 | For legislation to close a corporate tax haven loophole. | |
| SD1726 | For legislation to promote transparency and cost control of pharmaceutical drug prices. | |
| HD1730 | Relative to hospital profit transparency and fairness and the establishment of a Medicaid reimbursement enhancement fund | |
| HD1746 | For legislation to create a public health insurance agency to compete with private insurers | |
| SD1762 | For legislation relative to universal early education and full-day kindergarten. | |
| SD1769 | For legislation relative to family financial protection. | |
| SD1770 | For legislation to repeal mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenses. | |
| SD1779 | For legislation relative to universal pre-kindergarten access. | |
| SD1803 | For legislation relative to reserving beds in nursing homes during certain leaves of absence | |
| SD1806 | For legislation relative to the commonwealth of Massachusetts hosting an Olympic Games | |
| SD1829 | For legislation to establish fair scheduling for employees in the Commonwealth | |
| SD1853 | An Act establishing a family and medical leave and temporary disability leave insurance program | |
| HD1869 | Relative to the taxation of unearned income | |
| SD1874 | For legislation to increase neighborhood safety and opportunity | |
| SD1885 | For legislation relative to traffic and pedestrian stop data. | |
| HD1946 | For legislation to create a loan repayment program for direct care human service workers | |
| HD1967 | Relative to increasing the base for the calculation of cost-of-living increases for retired public employees | |
| HD1988 | For the adoption of resolutions memorializing the Congress of the United States to convene a Constitutional Convention to consider amendments to the Constitution to limit the influence of money in our political system | |
| HD1994 | For an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) to study the Olympic Games in the Commonwealth | |
| HD2070 | For legislation to establish a task force to identify and review state laws, regulations, and administrative directives that prescribe requirements for school districts | |
| HD2073 | For legislation to collect data regarding the use of solitary confinement | |
| HD2089 | For legislation to promote the use of restorative justice practices | |
| HD2118 | For legislation to increase the fines for failure to wear a seat belt | |
| HD2165 | For the establishment of a living minimum wage for employees and contracted employees of the Commonwealth | |
| HD2196 | For the inclusion of individuals with disabilities within civil rights protections and nondiscrimination protections and for an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) of the status of individuals and families with disabilities | |
| HD2207 | Relative to social media password privacy for school students | |
| HD2248 | Establishing schedules for employees | |
| HD2332 | For legislation to limit the time that former employees must wait before being employed by a competitor | |
| HD2380 | Relative to prohibiting the solitary confinement of inmates twenty-one years of age or younger | |
| HD2392 | Relative to improving disclosure of electioneering communications reports | |
| HD2401 | Relative to criminal offender record information | |
| HD2436 | Relative to sexual health education | |
| HD2470 | For legislation to promote accessibility and affordability of behavioral health and substance abuse services for recipients of MassHealth | |
| HD2476 | For legislation to establish secure choice retirement savings plan | |
| HD2592 | Relative to the use of solitary confinement in correctional facilities | |
| HD2596 | Relative to increase the minimum wage for private sector human service workers | |
| HD2676 | For legislation to expunge the records of persons falsely accused and juveniles. | |
| HD2743 | For legislation to require environmentally safe alternatives to harmful cleaning products | |
| HD2752 | For legislation to require producer responsibility for collection, reuse and recycling of discarded electronic products | |
| HD2780 | Relative to local control of liquor licenses | |
| HD2802 | Relative to pay equity | |
| HD2809 | Relative to the expungement of criminal records of juveniles | |
| HD2880 | An Act relative to direct mailings | |
| HD2964 | For legislation to improve juror service responses | |
| HD2974 | Relative to the adjournment of examinations and trails | |
| HD2975 | Relative to training of elder services workers in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease | |
| HD2980 | Relative to the rights of persons receiving services through the Department of Mental Health | |
| HD2997 | Relative to the criteria for the release of terminally ill inmates to alternative locations of confinement | |
| HD3032 | Relative to providing written health education information to incarcerated women by correctional institutions | |
| HD3072 | Relative to gender identity and access to public accommodations | |
| HD3097 | Relative to establishing a substance abuse health protection fund with collections from the sale of certain alcoholic beverages | |
| HD3151 | Relative to home health and hospice aides | |
| HD3173 | For legislation to establish a small-scale housing development demonstration program within the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development | |
| HD3174 | Relative to requiring insurance carriers to recognize nurse midwives as participating providers | |
| HD3202 | Relative to the protection of the mental and physical health of minors from sexual orientation and/or gender identity change efforts | |
| HD3211 | An Act to clarify parental rights in the administration of standardized tests | |
| HD3227 | Relative to the parole process | |
| HD3254 | Relative to discharges of certain waste into public waterways | |
| HD3268 | Relative to the evaluation of the frequency and outcome of contacts between juveniles of various racial and ethnic categories and law enforcement and court personnel and other Commonwealth officials | |
| HD3298 | Relative to establishing a right to counsel in certain eviction cases | |
| HD3305 | For legislation to ensure the payment of at least a living wage to all employees | |
| HD3321 | Relative to providing for community-based sentencing alternatives for primary caretakers of dependent children convicted of non-violent crimes | |
| HD3345 | For legislation to direct the Department of Public Health to compile data and issue a report on vision screening for children entering kindergarten | |
| HD3425 | For legislation to increase neighborhood safety and opportunity by enhancing the enforcement and penalties for violations of the controlled substances laws | |
| HD3433 | For legislation to protect families from adverse financial conditions caused by unreasonable debt | |
| HD3463 | For the establishment of a Massachusetts 2024 commission on the summer Olympic games | |
| HD3492 | Relative to contract assistance for Central Artery debt of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority |
Personal Information
| Profession: | Legislator |
Education & Public Service
- Newton High School
- Swarthmore College, B.A.
- Harvard University, M.A.T.
- University of Massachusetts at Boston (Masters Degree Program)
- School Committee (1976-1991)
- Mass. House (1991-2005)
- Mass. Senate (2005-present)