Pavel Payano

Vote was on requiring every conference committee report (i.e., final version of a bill negotiated between House and Senate) to receive a recorded vote

Progressive Position: YES

Vote was on creating administrative roadblocks to accessing emergency shelter and excluding new arrivals

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on increasing the cost of the shelter system and administrative burden for those seeking emergency shelter, further restricting access and turning more families onto the streets

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on limiting emergency shelter access to individuals who have lived in Massachusetts for at least a year, excluding new arrivals and creating additional administrative burden for residents

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on Enables the Health Policy Commission to cap certain prescription drug prices

Progressive Position: YES

Vote was on worsening our housing crisis by making it easier for cities and towns to evade compliance with the MBTA Communities law, which requires rezoning for multifamily housing near transit

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on creating a commission stacked with anti-tax and business groups to study how they can avoid the financial burden for their misuse of COVID funds

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on redirecting excess revenue from the state’s capital gains tax to the flush rainy day fund instead of the state’s pension liability fund

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on blocking the transition to zero-emissions vehicles and scapegoat climate and energy efficiency regulations for higher energy prices

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on raising the estate tax threshold to $3 million and draining vital revenue from the Commonwealth to redistribute wealth upwards

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on expanding the state’s telehealth shield law by prohibiting all state actors from cooperating with any out-of-state hostile litigation, establishing state-level EMTALA protections for emergency abortion care, allowing providers critical anonymity by using their practice name on prescription labels for reproductive and gender-affirming health care medicines, and ensuring all clinicians and lawyers are protected from professional discipline related to hostile litigation, and more.

Progressive Position: YES

Vote was on banning the sale of sensitive data (including location data) and imposing meaningful data minimization requirements on companies that harvest our personal information, among other important privacy protections.

Progressive Position: YES

Vote was on creating a more burdensome and bureaucratic process for school districts responding to an attempt to ban a book, requiring the notification of the entire community of a challenge no matter how baseless and how easily dismissed

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on increasing the administrative burden on school committees responding to attempted book bans and reducing the likelihood anyone will read the book before deliberation

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on making it easier for parents seeking to ban books to appeal the decision of a school committee

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on adding administrative burdens on school committees facing book ban efforts

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on comating politically motivated book bans by creating clear guidelines for how schools and libraries decide which books to make available. The bill similarly recognizes that teachers and librarians are trusted experts and should be treated as such and that personal, political, and doctrinal views should not be governing which books are allowed to be on the shelf.

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on allowing legislators themselves to write health warnings on cannabis products instead of delegating public health, public safety, and social justice experts on the Cannabis Commission

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on reducing the amount of allowable individual possession of marijuana in the underlying bill.

Progressive Position: NO

Vote was on a Boston home rule petition from Mayor Michelle Wu an the Boston City Council to blunt property tax increases for residential homeowners by decreasing a tax cut for commercial skyscrapers

Progressive Position: YES

Vote was on a right-wing amendment to drain state revenue by increasing the likelihood of hitting the state's regressive "tax cap" law that limits revenue growth to the growth of wages and salaries (while exempting capital gains)

Progressive Position: NO

Co-sponsored at least 50% of the bills tracked on our Progressive Scorecard website.

Progressive Position: YES

Co-sponsored at least 75% of the bills tracked on our Progressive Scorecard website.

Progressive Position: YES

Co-sponsored 100% of the bills tracked on our Progressive Scorecard website.

Progressive Position: YES

Visited a Department of Correction prison or County jail this legislative session. (This will be updated on an ongoing basis)

Progressive Position: YES