Sen. Comerford’s 2023-2024 Senate Session Votes
| Date | Roll Call | Description of Vote | Comerford Vote | Vote Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/6/2023 | 1 | Election of President of Senate | Spilka | Spilka won 37-3 |
| 2/9/2023 | 2 | S. 17 (Senate Rules): Amendent 1 – Successive Legislative Days | No | Failed 4-34 |
| 2/9/2023 | 3 | S. 17 (Senate Rules): Amendment #2 – Recess before consideration of new matters | No | Failed 5-33 |
| 2/9/2023 | 4 | S. 17 (Senate Rules): Amendment #5 – Prohibit meeting past 10 PM | No | Failed 4-34 |
| 2/9/2023 | 5 | S. 17 (Senate Rules): Amendment #6 – Unanimous consent to go past midnight | No | Failed 4-34 |
| 2/9/2023 | 6 | S. 17 (Senate Rules): Amendment #10 – Restrict remote participation by Senators | No | Failed 5-33 |
| 2/9/2023 | 7 | S. 17 (Senate Rules): Amendment #23 – Strike Senate President Term Limit | Yes | Passed 32-6 |
| 2/9/2023 | 8 | S. 17 (Senate Rules): Amendment #24 – Prohibit remote Member participation | No | Failed 3-35 |
| 2/9/2023 | 9 | S. 17 (Senate Rules): Amendment #28 – Require specific excuse for remote voting | No | Failed 4-34 |
| 2/9/2023 | 10 | S. 17 (Senate Rules): Adoption | Yes | Passed 37-1 |
| 2/9/2023 | 11 | S. 18 (Joint Rules): Amendment #1 – Require 3-day delay before considering Conference Committee report | No | Failed 4-35 |
| 2/9/2023 | 12 | S. 18 (Joint Rules): Amendment #12 – Permit a minority report from Committees | No | Failed 3-36 |
| 2/9/2023 | 13 | S. 18 (Joint Rules): Adoption | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 3/9/2023 | 14 | H. 58 (Supplemental Appropriations) Engrossment | Yes | Passed 40-0 |
| 3/23/2023 | 15 | H. 58 (Supplemental Appropriations) Enactment | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 3/30/2023 | 16 | H. 3547 (Transportation funding) Engrossment | Yes | Passed 40-0 |
| 4/13/2023 | 17 | H. 43 (Housing Secretariat) Approval | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/23/2023 | 18 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 16 to increase Healthy Soils program funding | Yes | Passed 40-0 |
| 5/23/2023 | 19 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 189 to fund Women’s Suffrage Celebration | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/23/2023 | 20 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 245 to fund Massachusetts Downtown Initiative | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/23/2023 | 21 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 381 to fund Free Period, which provides free feminine hygiene products | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/23/2023 | 22 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 394 to increased funds for the Elder Nutrition Program | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/23/2023 | 23 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 437 to fund school mental health awareness and suicide prevention | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 24 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 490 to fund women veteran services | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 25 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 509 to fund the Massachusetts Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 26 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 511 to fund hygiene insecurity programs | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 27 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 514 to fund the e Citizenship for New Americans program | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 28 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 561 to support freestanding birth centers | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 29 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 568 to fund steps to address drink spiking | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 30 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 593 to fund hate crimes prevention programs | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 31 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 701 to establish a curriculum-based service learning program initiative | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 32 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 688 to fund state aid to regional public libraries, including in western Massachusetts | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 33 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 651 to increase funding for Civics Project Trust Fund | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 34 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 663 to fund Hunger Free Campus Initiative | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/24/2023 | 35 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 706 to increase funding for financial assistance to students in vocational-technical higher education | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/25/2023 | 36 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 768 to stop offering in-state tuition for high school graduates regardless of immigration status. | No | Failed 3-37 |
| 5/25/2023 | 37 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 780 to require quuarry, sand, and gravel operations to submit an application to the DOT and State Geologist for a license. | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 5/25/2023 | 38 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 809 to strike sections 16 and 17 regarding the millionaire’s surtax. | No | Failed 5-34 |
| 5/25/2023 | 39 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 855 to increase funding for court-appointed special advocates. | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/25/2023 | 40 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 876 to increase funding for the Senator Charles E. Shannon, Jr. community safety initiative grant program. | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/25/2023 | 41 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 880 to increase funding for firefighter cancer screenings. | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/25/2023 | 42 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 2 to increase funding for environmental police patrols to protect right whales. | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/25/2023 | 43 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 41 to increase funding for the Feeding America food bank system. | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/25/2023 | 44 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 105 to increase funding for tax relief initiatives. | No | Failed 4-35 |
| 5/25/2023 | 45 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 106 to strike provisions excluding Fair Share tax revenues from the calculation of revenues to be returned to taxpayers. | No | Failed 5-34 |
| 5/25/2023 | 46 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 107 to strike sections transferring capital gains tax revenue. | No | Failed 3-36 |
| 5/25/2023 | 47 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 350 to allow pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraceptives without prescriptions. | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/25/2023 | 48 | S. 3 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Amendment 392 to include fetal opioid drug exposure and addition to the Dept. of Developmental Services’ list of closely related Developmental Conditions. | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 5/25/2023 | 49 | H. 3901 (Fiscal Year 2024 budget) Engrossment | Yes | Passed 40-0 |
| 6/15/2023 | 50 | S. 2397 (Tax relief) Amendment #16 to require that no more than 80% of housing units receving Housing Development Incentive Program tax benefits be market rate units | No | Failed 9-30 |
| 6/15/2023 | 51 | S. 2397 (Tax relief) Amendment #26 to require married couples to file a joint state return in any year they file a joint federal income tax return. | Yes | Passed 33-6 |
| 6/15/2023 | 52 | S. 2397 (Tax relief) Amendment #4 that sets the capital gains tax rate to 5% for the sale or exchange of assets held for one year or less | No | Failed 5-32 |
| 6/15/2023 | 53 | S. 2397 (Tax relief) Amendment #7 to eliminate estate tax for estates valued at under $3 million | No | Failed 5-33 |
| 6/15/2023 | 54 | S. 2397 (Tax relief) Amendment #23 to adjust Estate Tax to inflation | No | Failed 6-32 |
| 6/15/2023 | 55 | H. 3770 Engrossment of the Senate tax reform bill | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 7/26/2023 | 56 | S. 2426 (Supplemental Appropriations) Engrossment | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 7/27/2023 | 57 | S. 2425 (Allow non-binary gender on identification documents) Engrossment | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 7/27/2023 | 58 | S. 2251 (Provide identification to people experiencing homelessness) Engrossment | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 7/27/2023 | 59 | H. 4013 (Local road and bridges funding) Enactment | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 7/31/2023 | 60 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Accept Conference Report | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 7/31/2023 | 61 | H. 4040 (FY 2024 budget) Enactment | Yes | Passed 39-0 |
| 9/28/2023 | 62 | H.4104 (tax relief) Accept Conference Report | Yes | Passed 38-1 |
| 9/28/2023 | 63 | H.4104 (tax relief) Suspend Rule 49 to allow amendment to conference report | No | Failed 3-33 |
| 10/5/2023 | 64 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 1231-1000 – Sewer Rate Relief Funding | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 65 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 1595-0115 – Civics Education Trust Fund | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 66 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 3000-1042 – Center-Based Child Care Rate Increase | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 67 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 3000-5000 – Grants to Head Start Programs | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 68 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 3000-7052 – Parent-Child Plus Program | Yes | Passed 37-1 |
| 10/5/2023 | 69 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 4405-2000 – State Supplement to Supplemental Security Income | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 70 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 4510-0811 – Children’s Advocacy Centers | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 71 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 4512-2022 – Grants to Local Boards of Health | Yes | Passed 37-1 |
| 10/5/2023 | 72 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 4513-1027 – Samaritans, Inc. | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 73 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 4590-0915 – Public Health Hospitals | Yes | Passed 37-1 |
| 10/5/2023 | 74 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 4590-0925 – Prostate Cancer Research | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 75 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 4800-0200 – DCF Family Resource Centers | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 76 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 7002-0025 – Community Action Agency Operating and Outreach | Yes | Passed 37-1 |
| 10/5/2023 | 77 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 7002-2022 – Community Foundation Grants | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 78 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 7003-1206 – Mass. Service Alliance | Yes | Passed 37-1 |
| 10/5/2023 | 79 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 7004-0102 – Homeless Individual Shelters | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 80 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 7004-0104 – Home and Healthy for Good Program | Yes | Passed 37-1 |
| 10/5/2023 | 81 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 7004-3036 – Housing Services and Counseling | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 82 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 7006-0011 – Loan Originator Administration and Consumer Counseling | Yes | Passed 37-1 |
| 10/5/2023 | 83 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 7006-0071 – Department of Telecommunications and Cable | Yes | Passed 37-1 |
| 10/5/2023 | 84 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 7007-0150 – Regional Economic Development Grants | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/5/2023 | 85 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 7035-0035 – Advanced Placement Math and Science Programs | Yes | Passed 37-1 |
| 10/5/2023 | 86 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 8000-0655 – Pre- and Post-Release Services Grant Program | Yes | Passed 37-1 |
| 10/5/2023 | 87 | H.4040 (FY 2024 budget) Override veto of Item 8000-1127 – Nonprofit Security Grant Pilot Program | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/19/2023 | 88 | H.4109 (salary range transparency) Engrossment | Yes | Passed 38-1 |
| 10/26/2023 | 89 | S.2481 (access to menstrual products) Engrossment | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
| 10/26/2023 | 90 | S.2480 (HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medications) Engrossment | Yes | Passed 38-0 |
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