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SUMMARY:Joint Committee on Housing Hearing
DESCRIPTION:The Joint Committee on Housing will hold a hearing on bills to affordable housing and late-filed legislation\, including the below bill by Senator Comerford. To view a full list of bills\, visit the hearing page. \n\n\n\nBill\nBill Title\nSponsor\n\n\n\n\nS.868\nAn Act empowering cities and towns to impose a fee on certain real estate transactions to support affordable housing\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 Housing Co-Chairs Senator John Keenan and Representative James Arciero. \nTo sign up to provide verbal testimony for this hearing\, please fill out this form before Friday\, October 22\, at 5:00 p.m. Constituents planning to testify are encouraged to alert Sen. Comerford by emailing jo.comerford@masenate.gov. \nPlease email written testimony to Luke O’Roark at luke.oroark@mahouse.gov and please copy Senator Comerford (jo.comerford@masenate.gov). \nThose who do not plan to testify but want to watch the public hearing may view the live stream under the Hearings & Events section of the legislative website.  \nYou may contact Luke O’Roark at luke.oroark@mahouse.gov with questions or inquires.
URL:https://senatorjocomerford.org/event/joint-committee-on-housing-hearing-7/
LOCATION:Virtual hearing/testimony
CATEGORIES:Bill Hearing
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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 relative to alternative health care financing models\, including the below bill co-sponsored by Senator Comerford. To view all bills\, visit the hearing page. \n\n\n\nBILL\nBILL TITLE\nSPONSOR\n\n\n\n\nS.766\nAn Act establishing medicare for all in Massachusetts\nJames B. Eldridge\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\, October 21 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. Constituents planning to testify are encouraged to alert Sen. Comerford by emailing jo.comerford@masenate.gov. \nNo panels will be permitted at this hearing. \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 Wednesday\, October 20 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. \nThose who do not plan to testify but want to watch the public hearing may view the live stream on the under the Hearings & Events section on the Legislature’s website.
URL:https://senatorjocomerford.org/event/joint-committee-on-health-care-financing-hearing-6/
LOCATION:Virtual hearing
CATEGORIES:Bill Hearing
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SUMMARY:UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Sciences' Dean's Seminar Series: HEALING Act
DESCRIPTION:Join Senator Comerford at the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences’ Dean’s Seminar Series. \nSen. Comerford will discuss the importance of state action to eliminate health inequities and present information on the Health Equity at All Levels in Government (HEALING) Act\, legislation filed by both Sen. Comerford and Representative Liz Miranda. The talk will also address how current and future public health and health sciences leaders can advocate for action to address health inequities in the communities that we work\, live\, and play in. \nThe Dean’s Seminar Series provides opportunities for SPHHS students\, faculty\, and staff to engage SPHHS faculty members – along with invited presenters including community and state leaders\, nationally recognized scholars\, and exceptional alumni – on a variety of scientific topics representing the wide range of disciplines found within public health and health sciences. They are presented in an effort to engage all types of listeners from all different experiences and backgrounds. \nThe talk is open to the general public\, however pre-registration is required. Please contact Carey Simos with any questions at csimos@umass.edu.
URL:https://senatorjocomerford.org/event/umass-amherst-deans-seminar-series-healing-act/
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