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ISSUES

Issues

Reproductive Health Care ​

  • Advancing reproductive health care access and equity

  • Combating anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)

  • Creating licensure for certified professional midwives

  • Championing racial equity in maternal health

  • Advocating for maternal mental health care 

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Jobs & Economy​

  • Supporting small businesses and working families

  • Pushing for green economy opportunities

  • Helping women reenter the workforce

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Personal & Public Health

  • Championing infectious disease prevention infrastructure

  • Advancing youth mental health supports

  • Promoting pediatric care access

  • Advocating for universal access to quality and affordable health care

  • Addressing addiction and substance use

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Transparent & Accountable Government​

  • Shedding light on the Legislature

  • Speaking up, standing up (for roll calls)

  • Publishing voting records

  • Improving government data management, privacy, and security​

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Voting Access & Election Reform​

  • Advancing free, fair, and truly accessible elections

  • Pushing for more robust voting rights, like paid time off to vote, minimum ballot box counts, and comprehensive upgrades to voter rolls and voting systems

  • Ensuring full implementation of mail-in voting

  • Leading the charge to change our last-in-the-nation state primary date

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Education & Childcare

  • Fighting for childcare as necessary infrastructure

  • Establishing universal, publicly-funded, tuition-free, full-day kindergarten and pre-K

  • Centering teachers, students, and parents in discussions on public education

  • Advocating for full funding and implementation of the Student Opportunity Act

  • Supporting 21st Century curriculum

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Climate Action & Environmental Justice​

  • Reducing single-use plastics and improving waste management

  • Leading legislative work to green existing buildings

  • Investing in water quality and water access improvements

  • Working toward 100% renewable energy

  • Creating a statewide car seat recycling program

  • Supporting green energy conversion and job creation​

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Civil Rights & Equity for All​​

  • Combating body size discrimination 

  • Working to thwart workplace sexual harassment 

  • Advancing civil rights for the LGBTQ+ community

  • Ensuring the safety, dignity, and civil rights of people experiencing homelessness

  • Pushing for stronger data privacy and security

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Public Transportation

  • Improving infrastructure to generate reliability

  • Expanding services to increase rider access

  • Safeguarding reduced fares

  • Investing in community-based transit options

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Public Safety

  • Appropriately funding public professionals who support our community's health and safety, including law enforcement, firefighters, social workers, and others
  • Increase effective communication with local public safety officials to develop ways to support new initiatives
Key Legislation

KEY LEGISLATION (2023-2024)

  • S.125 | An Act providing for diaper changing stations in public buildings and accommodations

  • S.212 | An Act supporting access to training on reproductive and gender-affirming care

  • S.344 | An Act relative to celebrating and teaching Native American culture and history

  • S.346 | An Act ensuring access to mental health supports in K-12 schools

  • S.398 | An Act relative to councils on aging

  • S.399 | An Act protecting the rights of older adults and people with disabilities

  • S.432 | An Act to ensure a complete, accurate, and equitable census count

  • S.433 | An Act providing a local option for ranked choice voting in municipal elections

  • S.434 | An Act requiring tax return disclosure to appear on a presidential primary ballot

  • S.435 | An Act promoting democracy in primary elections

  • S.436 | An Act to modernize the central registry of voters

  • S.438 | An Act ensuring municipal participation of the widest eligible range

  • S.439 | An Act improving voting access and elections infrastructure

  • S.570 | The Plastics Reduction Act

  • S.706 | An Act relative to pediatric care appointments

  • S.708 | An Act enhancing post-pregnancy mental health care

  • S.800 | An Act relative to the fair treatment of life estates in MassHealth Eligibility

  • S.801 | An Act strengthening health spending accountability processes

  • S.847 | An Act to support college students in recovery

  • S.900 | An Act relative to electronic meetings and voting in condominiums

  • S.1108 | An Act prohibiting body size discrimination

  • S.1112 | An Act establishing a bill of rights for people experiencing homelessness

  • S.1114 | The Abortion Access Act

  • S.1219 | An Act to establish a standard for prevention of heat illness in outdoor public sector workers

  • S.1456 | An Act prohibiting the sale of dextromethorphan (DXM) to minors

  • S.1457 | An Act promoting access to midwifery care and out-of-hospital birth options

  • S.1458 | An Act promoting community immunity

  • S.1459 | An Act modernizing birth certificates

  • S.1460 | An Act relative to determinations of need

  • S.1579 | An Act to ensure compliance with the anti-shackling law for pregnant incarcerated women

  • S.1580 | An Act relative to health education in women's correctional institutions

  • S.1581 | An Act banning the use of tear gas against civilians

  • S.2059 | An Act establishing Election Day as a holiday and providing paid voting leave

  • S.2060 | An Act regarding information governance

  • S.2062 | An Act closing a loophole in lobbying law

  • S.2063 | An Act updating the Open Meeting Law to support remote participation

  • S.2064 | An Act extending the public records law to the Governor and the Legislature

  • S.2065 | An Act promoting governmental efficiency

  • S.2177 | An Act advancing water access equity 

  • S.2178 | An Act relative to better buildings

  • S.2288 | An Act establishing a zero-emission school buses grant program

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