Sen. Comerford’s 2025-2026 Senate Session Votes

 

Date Roll Call Description of Vote Comerford Vote Vote Outcome
1/4/2025 1 Election of President of Senate Spilka Spilka won 34-5
2/12/2025 2 S.15 (Joint Rules): Amendment 2 – Number of bills permitted to be heard at a committee hearing No Failed 5-33-2
2/12/2025 3 S.15 (Joint Rules): Amendment 9 – Allow the minority caucus to file a separate conference committee report No Failed 6-32-2
2/12/2025 4 S.15 (Joint Rules): Amendment 10 – Require 48 hours to review conference committee reports No Failed 5-33-2
2/12/2025 5 S.15 (Joint Rules): Amendment 13 – Prohibit votes on conference committee reports within 72 hours of end of formal session No Failed 6-32-2
2/12/2025 6 S.15 (Joint Rules): Amendment 22 – Require roll call votes for all conference committee reports No Failed 9-29-2
2/12/2025 7 S.15 (Joint Rules): Amendment 26 – Prevent unjustified financial gain for members and their families Yes Passed 38-0-2
2/12/2025 8 S.15 (Joint Rules): Amendment 29 – Limit the time frame for committee extensions No Failed 6-32-2
2/12/2025 9 S.16 (Supplemental Appropriations): Amendment 1 – Require nationwide background checks for shelter applicants Yes Passed 38-0-2
2/12/2025 10 S.16 (Supplemental Appropriations): Amendment 10 – Emerging Firearm Technology Commission reporting deadline extension Yes Passed 38-0-2
2/12/2025 11 S.16 (Supplemental Appropriations): Amendment 7 – Give priority to Massachusetts residents whose initial cause of homelessness occurred in the Commonwealth No Failed 8-30-2
2/12/2025 12 S.16 (Supplemental Appropriations): Amendment 14 – Require universal background checks for shelter applicants No Failed 12-26-2
2/12/2025 13 S.16 (Supplemental Appropriations): Amendment 18 – One year residency requirement for shelter applicants No Failed 6-32-2
2/12/2025 14 S.16 (Supplemental Appropriations): Amendment 21 – Require the Inspector General to review all spending on the emergency assistance shelter system No Failed 10-28-2
2/12/2025 15 S.16 (Supplemental Appropriations): Amendment 66 – Require the Senate’s Committee on Post Audit and Oversight to investigate public safety issues at shelter facilities No Failed 6-32-2
2/12/2025 16 H.58 (Supplemental Appropriations): Engrossment of the House bill as amended by the Senate in S.16 Yes Passed 33-6-1
2/13/2025 17 S.15 (Joint Rules): Engrossment Yes Passed 39-0-1
2/13/2025 18 S.14 (Senate Rules): Amendment 35 – Require Senators to vote in-person No Failed 5-32-3
2/13/2025 19 S.14 (Senate Rules): Amendment 36 – Require a 2/3 vote to continue session after midnight No Failed 6-31-3
2/13/2025 20 S.14 (Senate Rules): Amendment 3 – Modify the dilatory timeline for laying a matter on the table No Failed 5-33-2
2/13/2025 21 S.14 (Senate Rules): Amendment 10 – Require a 2/3 vote to continue session after 10 p.m. No Failed 6-32-3
2/13/2025 23 S.14 (Senate Rules): Amendment 25 – Prohibit more than one legislative day within a calendar day when a matter is laid on the table No Failed 6-32-2
2/13/2025 24 S.14 (Senate Rules): Acceptance of the Senate Rules Yes Passed 39-0-1
2/26/2025 25 S.16 (Supplemental budget for the emergency shelter program): Enactment Yes Passed 32-7-1
5/08/2025 26 S.2512 (Supplemental budget for the surplus Fair Share Amendment revenue): Engrossment Yes Passed 40-0
5/20/2025 27 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 249 to fund the board of building regulations and standards and study ways to unlock housing production Yes Passed 40-0
5/20/2025 28 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 452 to fund a nurse practitioner program at the South Boston Community Health Center Yes Passed 39-0
5/20/2025 29 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 543 to fund the Cape and Islands Mental Health Center and Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children Yes Passed 39-0
5/20/2025 30 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 493 to fund YWCA organizations Yes Passed 39-0
5/20/2025 31 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 459 to provide Department of Transitional Aid benefits during pregnancy Yes Passed 39-0
5/20/2025 32 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 693 to fund the YMCA Youth-At-Risk Program Yes Passed 39-0
5/21/2025 33 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 541 to lower the cost of certain high-cost prescription medications Yes Passed 34-5
5/21/2025 34 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 803 to allow Gold Star spouses to receive annuity benefits if they remarry Yes Passed 40-0
5/21/2025 35 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 476 to establish a Scientific Research Trust Fund to help backfill federal funding cuts Yes Passed 39-0
5/21/2025 36 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 508 to fund Boys and Girls Clubs Yes Passed 39-0
5/21/2025 37 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 491 to fund community outreach services at the Department of Mental Health Yes Passed 39-0
5/21/2025 38 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 524 to fund the Pediatric Palliative Care program Yes Passed 39-0
5/21/2025 39 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 574 to fund the STOP stroke public awareness fund and to require regulations related to stroke care to be completed by October 1, 2025 Yes Passed 39-0
5/21/2025 40 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 324 to fund the Department of Conservation and Recreation Yes Passed 39-0
5/22/2025 41 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 786 to fund the Castle Island Marine Park Trust Fund Yes Passed 39-0
5/22/2025 42 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 924 to require hotels to establish a human trafficking recognition training program for all hotel employees No Failed 12-28
5/22/2025 43 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 13 to allow municipalities to appeal a requirement that they meet the zoning provisions of the MBTA Communities Act No Failed 5-34
5/22/2025 44 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 96 to establish a commission to analyze the impacts of unemployment insurance cost increases on employers No Failed 5-34
5/22/2025 45 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 263 to redistribute excess capital gains revenue No Failed 5-34
5/22/2025 46 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 373 to establish a commission to analyze and make recommendations regarding the cost of electricity in the Commonwealth No Failed 9-30
5/22/2025 47 S.3 (Fiscal Year 2025 budget): Amendment 756 to reform estate tax law No Failed 5-34
5/22/2025 48 H.4001 (Fiscal Year 2026 Senate budget): Engrossment Yes Passed 38-2
6/18/2025 49 S.2521 (Fiscal Year 2025 deficiency supplemental budget including child care funding): Engrossment Yes Passed 39-0
6/18/2025 50 S.2529 (Fiscal Year 2025 deficiency supplemental budget): Amendment 25 to require distressed hospitals to report on their use of funds No Failed 5-34
6/18/2025 51 S.2529 (Fiscal Year 2025 deficiency supplemental budget): Amendment 24 to strike a provision in the bill amending the process for utilities to request rate review No Failed 6-33
6/18/2025 52 H.4227 (Fiscal Year 2025 fair share surtax supplemental budget): Enactment Yes Passed 40-0
6/18/2025 53 S.2529 (Fiscal Year 2025 deficiency supplemental budget): Engrossment Yes Passed 38-2
6/26/2025 54 S.2545 (Joint Rules): Acceptance of the Conference Committee report Yes Passed 40-0
6/26/2025 55 S.2538 (Health care protections for reproductive and gender-affirming care): Amendment #6 to prohibit the Health Connector from giving patients’ or providers’ personal information to federal or out-of-state inquiries Yes Passed 39-0
6/26/2025 56 S.2538 (Health care protections for reproductive and gender-affirming care): Amendment #21 directing the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services to maintain a database of out-of-state document requests No Failed 5-34
6/26/2025 57 S.2538 (Health care protections for reproductive and gender-affirming care): Engrossment Yes Passed 37-3
6/30/2025 58 H.4240 (Fiscal year 2026 final budget): Acceptance of the Conference Committee report Yes Passed 38-2

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