Press Room

The Senate on Thursday enacted legislation setting next year’s state primary election date on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.

The Massachusetts Legislature today enacted a supplemental budget bill that prioritizes care for the state’s most vulnerable populations by strategically targeting support to fiscally-strained hospitals and community health centers.

Today, the Massachusetts Senate approved three bills aimed at combatting the opioid epidemic, protecting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and managing car rental costs for residents.

The Massachusetts Data Privacy Act lays out one of the strongest legislative plans for consumer data protection in the United States which safeguards personal privacy and civil liberties for Massachusetts consumers.

The Massachusetts Senate today advanced the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, sweeping new legislation that establishes some of the strongest consumer data protections in the nation. The bill protects young people, empowers consumers with new rights over their personal information, limits how businesses and tech companies can collect and use data, and creates robust enforcement authority.

The agreement reached by the Legislature further deepens our commitment to support our most vulnerable populations by bolstering our fiscally strained hospitals and community health centers, which are firmly embedded in the fabric of our Commonwealth.

Today, Senator Michael J. Rodrigues, Chair of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, and Aaron Michlewitz, Chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means, issued the following statement regarding a partial supplemental budget bill to be reported out of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Next week, the Massachusetts Senate will take up three pieces of legislation to create legal protections for people who administer fentanyl testing equipment, protect day habilitation participants with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and help lower rental car costs in the Commonwealth.