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
11/14/2023 91 H.4062 (Wakefield easement) Enactment Yes Passed 38-0
11/14/2023 92 S.2502 (Supplemental Appropriations) Amendment 2 to restrict eligibility for Emergency Housing Assistance No Failed 3-36
11/14/2023 93 S.2502 (Supplemental Appropriations) Amendment 41 for working group to review the Emergency Housing Assistance Yes Passed 39-0
11/14/2023 94 S.2502 (Supplemental Appropriations) Amendment 94 to strike appropriation for Emergency Housing Assistance No Failed 3-36
11/14/2023 95 H.4171 (Supplemental Appropriations) Engrossment Yes Passed 36-3
11/15/2023 96 S.2503 (Fall River land) Enactment Yes Passed 38-0
11/15/2023 97 S. 2499 (Pharmaceutical Access, Costs and Transparency) Amendment 36 to strengthen CHIA data reporting Yes Passed 38-0
11/15/2023 98 S. 2499 (Pharmaceutical Access, Costs and Transparency) Amendment 43 to ban gifts from pharmaceutical company sales representatives Yes Passed 38-0
11/15/2023 99 S. 2520 (Pharmaceutical Access, Costs and Transparency) Engrossment Yes Passed 39-0
1/4/2024 100 S. 2541 (Expanding wheelchair warranty protections) Engrossment Yes Passed 39-0
1/4/2024 101 S. 2542 (“Blue Envelope” bill to facilitate better interactions between police officers and persons with autism spectrum disorder) Engrossment Yes Passed 39-0
1/4/2024 102 S. 2543 (Authorizing use of fentanyl test strips) Engrossment Yes Passed 39-0
1/11/2024 103 H. 4169 (North Reading conservation land) Enactment Yes Passed 39-0
1/11/2024 104 S. 2548 (Economic development) Amendment 6 to require advance notice of fund transfers Yes Passed 39-0
1/11/2024 105 S. 2548 (Economic development) Amendment 7 to Amendment 6 to require advance notice of expenditures Yes Passed 39-0
1/11/2024 106 S. 2548 (Economic development) Engrossment Yes Passed 39-0
1/18/2024 107 S. 2552 (Ban cat declawing) Engrossment Yes Passed 39-0
1/18/2024 108 S. 2551 (Repeal archaic laws) Engrossment Yes Passed 39-0
2/1/2024 109 H. 4139 (Gun law reforms) Refer to committee No Failed 9-31
2/1/2024 110 S. 2572 (Gun law reforms) Amendment 3, Task Force on Live-Fire Training Yes Passed 39-0
2/1/2024 111 S. 2572 (Gun law reforms) Amendment 63 which redrafted bill No Failed 6-33
2/1/2024 112 S. 2572 (Gun law reforms) Amendment 74 to allow firearms for hunting or shooting sports for youth Yes Passed 37-2
2/1/2024 113 S. 2572 (Gun law reforms) Amendment 11 to permit assault weapons lawfully possessed before the law’s passage Yes Passed 39-0
2/1/2024 114 H. 4139 (Gun Law reforms) Engrossment Yes Passed 37-3

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