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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