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SUMMARY:Joint Committee on Public Service Hearing
DESCRIPTION:The Joint Committee on Public Service will hold a hearing\, including the below bill sponsored by Senator Comerford. You can view all bills on the hearing page. \n\n\n\nBill\nBill Title\nSponsor\n\n\n\n\nS.1672\nAn Act to extend veterans retirement buyback opportunities\nJo Comerford\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe invite you to submit written testimony and/or testify on bills you care about. Testimony on bills in this hearing should be addressed to Committee Co-Chairs Senator Michael Brady and Representative Kenneth Gordon. \nTo testify before the Committee\, participants must pre-register by clicking here to complete and submit the registration form. The deadline to register is Monday\, September 27 at 10:00 a.m. Once registered\, participants will receive an invitation to the virtual hearing via Microsoft Teams. Per committee rules\, the Chair will limit testimony to three minutes per individual. \nWritten testimony is encouraged and may be submitted to the Committee via email to Jessica.Foley@mahouse.gov\, and please copy Sen. Comerford (jo.comerford@masenate.gov). Please indicate the bill number in the subject of the email. The Committee will accept written testimony through Tuesday\, October 5\, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. \nMembers of the public may also view a livestream or recording of this hearing on malegislature.gov. This hearing will be available for view via live stream at the Joint Committee on Public Service’s YouTube Channel. A recording of this hearing will be available via YouTube after the hearing concludes. The Committee will also maintain a recording of this hearing. \nFor questions or assistance with accessing this hearing\, please email Elizabeth.Donovan@mahouse.gov or call (617) 722-2575.
URL:https://senatorjocomerford.org/event/joint-committee-on-public-service-hearing-10/
LOCATION:Virtual hearing
CATEGORIES:Bill Hearing
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SUMMARY:Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight Hearing
DESCRIPTION:The Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight will hold a bill hearing which will include the below bills filed and co-sponsored by Senator Comerford. For the full list of bills\, please visit the hearing page. \n\n\n\nBill\nBill Title\nSponsor\n\n\n\n\nS.2026\nAn Act establishing gender neutral bathrooms\nJo Comerford\n\n\nS.2027\nAn Act establishing an Indigenous Peoples Day\nJo Comerford\n\n\nH.3214\nAn Act establishing gender neutral bathrooms\nMindy Domb\n\n\nH.3126\nAn Act providing for a gender neutral designation on state documents and identifications\nMindy Domb\n\n\n\nWe invite you to submit testimony and/or testify on bills you care about. Testimony on bills in this hearing should be addressed to Committee Co-Chairs Senator Mark Pacheco and Representative Antonio Cabral. \nTo register to testify\, please provide the contact information requested in this form by 4:00 p.m. on Friday\, September 24\, 2021. Once registered\, you will receive further instruction on how to participate virtually. \nWritten testimony can be submitted via email to Jordan Latham at jordan.latham@mahouse.gov or Mary Wasylyk at mary.wasylyk@masenate.gov and please copy Senator Comerford (jo.comerford@masenate.gov) when submitting testimony. The deadline for written testimony is Friday\, October 15 at 5:00 p.m. \nA livestream of this hearing will be available on the legislature’s website. \nPlease be advised that the schedule and agenda are subject to change at the discretion of the chairs. Further\, the Chairs may schedule an executive session to coincide with this hearing. Per Committee Rules\, Joint Committee members will be given any advance notice and materials to review.
URL:https://senatorjocomerford.org/event/joint-committee-on-state-administration-and-regulatory-oversight-hearing-8/
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SUMMARY:Joint Committee on Health Care Financing Hearing
DESCRIPTION:The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing will hold a hearing on bills listed here\, including the below bills filed by Senator Comerford. \n\n\n\nBILL\nBILL TITLE\nSPONSOR\n\n\n\n\nS.748\nAn Act supporting equal access to community care for elders and the disabled\nJo Comerford\n\n\nS.749\nAn Act protecting the homes of seniors and disabled people on MassHealth\nJo Comerford\n\n\n\nWe invite you to submit written testimony and/or testify on bills you care about. Testimony on bills in this hearing should be addressed to Joint Committee on Health Care Financing Co-Chairs Senator Cindy Friedman and Representative John Lawn\, Jr. \nPersons seeking to provide testimony must pre-register via this Google form no later than Thursday\, September 23 at 4:00 p.m. Individuals who register to testify at the hearing will be afforded 3 minutes to speak. Once registered\, a representative of the Legislative Information Services will e-mail each individual signed-up to appear a link to join the hearing on Microsoft Teams. Additional instructions on how to participate will be provided prior to the start of the hearing. NOTE: If a person is filling out the pre-registration form on behalf of another person\, only the e-mail and contact information of the persons seeking to testify should be listed on the form. \nAt the discretion of the Chairs\, individuals may be called to offer testimony as part of a panel. Individuals participating as part of a panel must fill-out the appropriate section of the pre-registration form. Note: Each member of a panel is still required to fill out an individual pre-registration form. Persons who note in their pre-registration form that they wish to testify as part of a panel will be afforded 3 minutes per person up to a maximum of 9 minutes for the panels of 3 or more persons. The Chairs\, at their discretion\, may further limit the time for testimony. \nADA accommodations\, such as closed captioning and transcription services\, shall be provided upon request. The services are provided by staff from the appropriate state agencies. Agency policies requires 2 business days to process any request for services.  Therefore\, the deadline to submit a request for ADA accommodations is Thursday\, September 23 at 4:00 p.m. Requests for services should be made by e-mail to the Committee Director at timothy.oneill@mahouse.gov. \nWritten testimony may also be submitted to the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing via e-mail to the House and Senate Chairs at John.Lawn@mahouse.gov and Cindy.Friedman@masenate.gov as well as the Committee Director at Timothy.Nneill@mahouse.gov. Please also copy Senator Comerford (jo.comerford@masenate.gov). \nDue to the technical requirements of the Microsoft Teams meeting platform\, legislators and public officials are also required to pre-register to testify before the committee. The Chairs\, at their discretion\, may take legislators and public officials out of turn. The committee will extend this courtesy to legislators and public officials only and may not be expanded to include other individuals or panels. \nThe Chairs\, at their discretion\, will determine the order of testimony during the course of the hearing. It is the responsibility of the individuals seeking to testify to be prepared to speak when called upon by the Chairs. In the event that an individual is called by the Chairs and that person is not logged into the Teams platform\, the Chairs will move on and call the next individual or panel. \nYou can watch a livestream of the hearing here.
URL:https://senatorjocomerford.org/event/joint-committee-on-health-care-financing-hearing-5/
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