Legislators are scored for their roll-called votes on bills and amendments where an important progressive advancement (or stopping a bad policy) is at stake. Learn more about the benefits and limitations of a scorecard.
Bill | Name | Summary from Progressive Mass | McMurtry's Vote | Vote Tally |
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DOC Accountability | Visited a Department of Correction prison or County jail this legislative session. (This will be updated on an ongoing basis) Progressive Position: YES | No | No: 127 Yes: 33 | |
H2025 8 | One-Week Notice for Hearings | Vote was on requiring one week of advance notice for any legislative hearing (as the MA Senate has endorsed), as opposed to the narrow existing 72 hour notice rule. Progressive Position: YES | No | No: 130 Yes: 24 |
H3770 14 | Rejecting Equity Reforms to 62F | Vote was on eliminating the language from the House's tax package to reform Chapter 62F (the “tax cap law”) so that all taxpayers would get equal rebates, as opposed to larger rebates going to more affluent taxpayers. Progressive Position: NO | No | No: 130 Yes: 27 |
H3770 15 | Prioritizing Tax Cuts over Fiscal Stability | Vote was on striking a proposed lift of the cap on the rainy day fund. Reaching the cap on the rainy day fund would trigger automatic regressive tax cuts. Progressive Position: NO | No | No: 131 Yes: 26 |
H3770 16 | Tax Cuts Skewed to the Rich | Vote was on the House’s regressive tax reform package, which contained $440 million in tax cuts for the commonwealth's richest estates, residents, and corporations—undermining the new revenue produced by the Fair Share Amendment. Progressive Position: NO | Yes | Yes: 154 No: 3 |
H3900 17 | Undermining the Fair Share Victory | Vote was on eliminating language that would guarantee that constitutionally protected revenue from the Fair Share Amendment could not be diverted to regressive tax cuts via the 62F tax cap law. Progressive Position: NO | No | No: 134 Yes: 24 |
H4104 33 | Tax Cuts Skewed to the Rich -- Redux | Vote was on a $1 billion tax cut package disproportionately benefiting the Commonwealth’s richest residents, corporations, and estates. Progressive Position: NO | Yes | Yes: 153 No: 1 |
H4109 58 | Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act | Vote was on requiring employers with 25+ employees to disclose the salary or wage range for a position in all job postings, provide the salary range to employees offered promotions and transfers, and provide the pay range to employees for their current roles if requested. It would also require covered employers to supply wage and demographic information to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Progressive Position: YES | Yes | Yes: 150 No: 9 |
H4135 59 | Rejecting Republican Delay Tactics on Gun Safety | Vote was on upholding the ruling of the chair that debate on the House's gun safety bill could begin despite the fact that it did not include a fiscal note detailing the cost of the proposal. Progressive Position: YES | Yes | Yes: 134 No: 26 |
H4135 61 | Expanding Pretrial Detention | Vote was on expanding the use of pretrial detention despite severe and well-documented racial disparities in its use in Massachusetts. Progressive Position: NO | No | No: 136 Yes: 25 |
H4139 62 | Strengthening MA's gun laws | Vote was on a comprehensive strengthening of MA’s gun safety laws, including a more robust assault weapons ban; measures to crack down on ghost guns; prohibitions on firearms in government buildings, polling places, and educational institutions; and more comprehensive data collection. Progressive Position: YES | Yes | Yes: 123 No: 37 |
H4052 63 | No Cost Calls | Vote was on guaranteeing free access to phone calls to incarcerated individuals, ending the predatory practice of price gouging incarcerated individuals and their loved ones to stay connected. Progressive Position: YES | Yes | Yes: 134 No: 25 |
H4167 65 | Excluding migrants from emergency housing assistance | Vote was on excluding arriving families from access to emergency housing assistance funding. Progressive Position: NO | No | No: 130 Yes: 27 |
H4460 75 | Excluding migrants from emergency housing assistance | Vote was on banning new residents of the commonwealth from access to emergency shelter. Progressive Position: NO | No | No: 127 Yes: 28 |
H4460 79 | Creating false zero-sum narratives | Vote was on a right-wing messaging amendment to create a false narrative that programs focused on helping new arrivals to obtain employment are harming low-income individuals. Progressive Position: NO | No | No: 131 Yes: 25 |
H2 92 | Defunding No Cost Calls | Vote was on defunding the dedicated account for the implementation of No Cost Calls (i.e., free access to phone calls for incarcerated individuals). Progressive Position: NO | No | No: 130 Yes: 28 |
H2 99 | Preventing migrant families from accessing shelter #1 | Vote was on the first of a series of three right-wing budget amendments to prevent migrant and refugee families from accessing emergency shelter and to push false, xenophobic narratives. Progressive Position: NO | No | No: 129 Yes: 29 |
H2 100 | Preventing migrant families from accessing shelter #2 | Vote was on the second of a series of three right-wing budget amendments to prevent migrant and refugee families from accessing emergency shelter and to push false, xenophobic narratives. Progressive Position: NO | No | No: 132 Yes: 27 |
H2 101 | Preventing migrant families from accessing shelter #3 | Vote was on the third of a series of three right-wing budget amendments to prevent migrant and refugee families from accessing emergency shelter and to push false, xenophobic narratives. Progressive Position: NO | No | No: 130 Yes: 28 |