HR 16 — recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers in assisting the state to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and urging greater attention and support for local frontline health workers.
Last action — Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0757h: MA VV 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 52
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3Passed House
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4Passed Senate
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5To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill died with 2025 Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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Action History
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Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0757h: MA VV 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 52
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Amendment # 2025-0757h: AA RC 202-166 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 52
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Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0757h
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Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass 03/05/2025 (Vote 10-8; RC)
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Executive Session: 02/26/2025 10:30 am LOB 205-207
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Public Hearing: 02/26/2025 10:30 am LOB 205-207
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Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs HJ 3 P. 25
Sponsors
- Jack Flanagan · Primary
- Wayne MacDonald · Cosponsor
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 413 not signed on · 162 voted No
Sponsors (1)
- Jack Flanagan Republican
Co-sponsors (1)
- Wayne MacDonald Republican
Not signed on (413)
413 members have not signed on to this bill.
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Calling the roll · Tallying · Engrossing
Votes
Passed
202 Yea
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166 Nay
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29 Other
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | 187 | 3 | 0 | 16 |
| Democrat | 3 | 156 | 0 | 11 |
| Unaffiliated | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 199 | 165 | 0 | 29 |
| % of votes cast | 51% | 42% | 0% | 7% |
How each member voted (393)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Susan C DeLemus | — | Yea |
| Thomas L Kaczynski | — | Yea |
| Kimberly A Rice | — | Yea |
| Lisa M Freeman | — | Yea |
| Paul P Dargie | — | Nay |
| Patrick N Long | — | Nay |
| Matt R Sabourin dit Choinière | — | Yea |
| Charlie G. St. Clair | — | Nay |
| Gary L. Daniels | — | Yea |
| Harry H. Bean | — | Yea |
| Jaci L. Grote | — | Nay |
| Michael P Murphy | — | Not Voting |
| Sandra L Panek | — | Yea |
| Suraj Budathoki | — | Nay |
| Suzanne M. Vail | — | Nay |
| Tom D Mannion | — | Yea |
| Alexis Simpson | Democrat | Nay |
| Alice Wade | Democrat | Nay |
| Alicia Gregg | Democrat | Nay |
| Alissandra Murray | Democrat | Nay |
| Allan Howland | Democrat | Nay |
| Allison Knab | Democrat | Nay |
| Amy Malone | Democrat | Nay |
| Anita Burroughs | Democrat | Nay |
| Barry Faulkner | Democrat | Nay |
| Beth Richards | Democrat | Nay |
| Bill Bolton | Democrat | Nay |
| Brian Sullivan | Democrat | Nay |
| Buzz Scherr | Democrat | Nay |
| Carrie Sorensen | Democrat | Nay |
| Carry Spier | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Cassandra Levesque | Democrat | Nay |
| Catherine Rombeau | Democrat | Nay |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Democrat | Nay |
| Cathryn Harvey | Democrat | Nay |
| Chris McAleer | Democrat | Nay |
| Chris Muns | Democrat | Nay |
| Christal Lloyd | Democrat | Nay |
| Christine Seibert | Democrat | Nay |
| Christopher Herbert | Democrat | Nay |
| Connie Lane | Democrat | Nay |
| Dale Swanson | Democrat | Nay |
| Dan Bergeron | Democrat | Nay |
| Daniel LeClerc | Democrat | Nay |
| Daniel Veilleux | Democrat | Nay |
| David Fracht | Democrat | Nay |
| David Luneau | Democrat | Nay |
| David Meuse | Democrat | Nay |
| David Nagel | Democrat | Nay |
| David Paige | Democrat | Nay |
| David Preece | Democrat | Nay |
| Dennis Malloy | Democrat | Nay |
| Dick Ames | Democrat | Nay |
| Dru Fox | Democrat | Nay |
| Efstathia Booras | Democrat | Nay |
| Eileen Kelly | Democrat | Nay |
| Eleana Colby | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Ellen Read | Democrat | Nay |
| Ellen Rockmore | Democrat | Nay |
| Eric Gallager | Democrat | Nay |
| Eric Turer | Democrat | Nay |
| Erica de Vries | Democrat | Nay |
| Erik Johnson | Democrat | Nay |
| Erin Kerwin | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Fred Davis | Democrat | Nay |
| Gaby Grossman | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Gary Gilmore | Democrat | Nay |
| Gary Woods | Democrat | Nay |
| Geoffrey Smith | Democrat | Nay |
| George Sykes | Democrat | Nay |
| Gerald Ward | Democrat | Nay |
| Gregory Sargent | Democrat | Nay |
| Heath Howard | Democrat | Nay |
| Heather Baldwin | Democrat | Nay |
| Heather Raymond | Democrat | Nay |
| Hope Damon | Democrat | Nay |
| James Gruber | Democrat | Nay |
| James MacKay | Democrat | Nay |
| James Newsom | Democrat | Nay |
| James Roesener | Democrat | Nay |
| Janet Lucas | Democrat | Nay |
| Janet Wall | Democrat | Nay |
| Jared Sullivan | Democrat | Yea |
| Jean Jeudy | Democrat | Nay |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Democrat | Nay |
| Jerry Stringham | Democrat | Nay |
| Jessica Grill | Democrat | Nay |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Democrat | Nay |
| Jim Maggiore | Democrat | Nay |
| Jim Snodgrass | Democrat | Nay |
| Jodi Newell | Democrat | Nay |
| John Cloutier | Democrat | Nay |
| John Larochelle | Democrat | Nay |
| John Stone | Democrat | Nay |
| Jonah Wheeler | Democrat | Yea |
| Julie Gilman | Democrat | Nay |
| Karen Ebel | Democrat | Nay |
| Karen Hegner | Democrat | Nay |
| Kat McGhee | Democrat | Nay |
| Kate Murray | Democrat | Nay |
| Kathy Staub | Democrat | Nay |
| Kris Schultz | Democrat | Nay |
| Laura Telerski | Democrat | Nay |
| Laurel Stavis | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Democrat | Nay |
| Lily Foss | Democrat | Nay |
| Linda DiSilvestro | Democrat | Nay |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Democrat | Nay |
| Linda Haskins | Democrat | Nay |
| Linda Ryan | Democrat | Nay |
| Loren Foxx | Democrat | Nay |
| Loren Selig | Democrat | Nay |
| Louis Juris | Democrat | Nay |
| Lucius Parshall | Democrat | Nay |
| Lucy Weber | Democrat | Nay |
| Luz Bay | Democrat | Nay |
| Manoj Chourasia | Democrat | Nay |
| Marc Plamondon | Democrat | Nay |
| Marjorie Smith | Democrat | Nay |
| Mark MacKenzie | Democrat | Nay |
| Mark Paige | Democrat | Nay |
| Mark Vallone | Democrat | Nay |
| Martin Jack | Democrat | Nay |
| Mary Georges | Democrat | Nay |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Democrat | Nay |
| Mary Jane Wallner | Democrat | Nay |
| Matthew Hicks | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Democrat | Nay |
| Megan Murray | Democrat | Nay |
| Merryl Gibbs | Democrat | Nay |
| Michael Cahill | Democrat | Nay |
| Michael Edgar | Democrat | Nay |
| Molly Howard | Democrat | Nay |
| Muriel Hall | Democrat | Nay |
| Myles England | Democrat | Nay |
| Nancy Murphy | Democrat | Nay |
| Ned Raynolds | Democrat | Nay |
| Nicholas Germana | Democrat | Nay |
| Nicholas Germana | Democrat | Nay |
| Nicole Leapley | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Paige Beauchemin | Democrat | Nay |
| Patricia Cornell | Democrat | Nay |
| Paul Berch | Democrat | Nay |
| Peggy Balboni | Democrat | Nay |
| Peter Bixby | Democrat | Nay |
| Peter Leishman | Democrat | Nay |
| Peter Lovett | Democrat | Nay |
| Peter Petrigno | Democrat | Nay |
| Peter Schmidt | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Philip Jones | Democrat | Nay |
| Ray Newman | Democrat | Nay |
| Rosemarie Rung | Democrat | Yea |
| Russell Muirhead | Democrat | Nay |
| Sallie Fellows | Democrat | Nay |
| Samantha Jacobs | Democrat | Nay |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Democrat | Nay |
| Santosh Salvi | Democrat | Nay |
| Seth Miller | Democrat | Nay |
| Stephanie Grund | Democrat | Nay |
| Stephanie Payeur | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Stephen Woodcock | Democrat | Nay |
| Sue Newman | Democrat | Nay |
| Susan Almy | Democrat | Nay |
| Susan Elberger | Democrat | Nay |
| Suzanne Chretien | Democrat | Nay |
| Terri O'Rorke | Democrat | Nay |
| Terry Spahr | Democrat | Nay |
| Thomas Buco | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Thomas Cormen | Democrat | Nay |
| Thomas Oppel | Democrat | Nay |
| Thomas Schamberg | Democrat | Nay |
| Thomas Southworth | Democrat | Nay |
| Tim Hartnett | Democrat | Nay |
| Timothy Horrigan | Democrat | Nay |
| Timothy Soucy | Democrat | Nay |
| Toni Weinstein | Democrat | Nay |
| Tony Caplan | Democrat | Nay |
| Tracy Bricchi | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Trinidad Tellez | Democrat | Nay |
| Wayne Burton | Democrat | Nay |
| Wayne Pearson | Democrat | Nay |
| Wendy Thomas | Democrat | Nay |
| Will Darby | Democrat | Nay |
| William Dolan | Democrat | Nay |
| William Palmer | Democrat | Nay |
| Zoe Manos | Democrat | Nay |
| Aidan Ankarberg | Independent | Not Voting |
| Aboul Khan | Republican | Yea |
| Adam Presa | Republican | Yea |
| Alvin See | Republican | Yea |
| Andrew Prout | Republican | Yea |
| Arnold Davis | Republican | Yea |
| Barbara Comtois | Republican | Yea |
| Bill Boyd | Republican | Yea |
| Bill Ohm | Republican | Yea |
| Bob Lynn | Republican | Yea |
| Brian Cole | Republican | Yea |
| Brian Labrie | Republican | Yea |
| Brian Nadeau | Republican | Yea |
| Brian Seaworth | Republican | Not Voting |
| Brian Taylor | Republican | Yea |
| Bryan Morse | Republican | Yea |
| Calvin Beaulier | Republican | Yea |
| Carol McGuire | Republican | Yea |
| Catherine Kenny | Republican | Yea |
| Charles Foote | Republican | Yea |
| Charles McMahon | Republican | Yea |
| Charles Melvin | Republican | Yea |
| Cindy Bennett | Republican | Yea |
| Claudine Burnham | Republican | Yea |
| Clayton Wood | Republican | Yea |
| Cyril Aures | Republican | Yea |
| Dale Girard | Republican | Nay |
| Dan McGuire | Republican | Yea |
| Daniel Popovici-Muller | Republican | Yea |
| Darrell Louis | Republican | Not Voting |
| David Love | Republican | Yea |
| David Lundgren | Republican | Yea |
| David Milz | Republican | Yea |
| David Walker | Republican | Yea |
| Deborah Aylward | Republican | Yea |
| Debra DeSimone | Republican | Yea |
| Denis Murphy | Republican | Yea |
| Denise DeDe-Poulin | Republican | Yea |
| Dennis Mannion | Republican | Yea |
| Diane Kelley | Republican | Yea |
| Diane Pauer | Republican | Yea |
| Dick Thackston | Republican | Yea |
| Dillon Dumont | Republican | Not Voting |
| Donald McFarlane | Republican | Yea |
| Donald Selby | Republican | Not Voting |
| Douglas Thomas | Republican | Yea |
| Douglas Trottier | Republican | Yea |
| Erica Layon | Republican | Yea |
| Ernesto Gonzalez | Republican | Yea |
| George Grant | Republican | Yea |
| Gerald Griffin | Republican | Yea |
| Glen Aldrich | Republican | Yea |
| Glenn Bailey | Republican | Yea |
| Gregory Hill | Republican | Not Voting |
| Henry Giasson | Republican | Yea |
| JD Bernardy | Republican | Yea |
| Jack Flanagan | Republican | Yea |
| James Creighton | Republican | Yea |
| James Guzofski | Republican | Yea |
| James Qualey | Republican | Yea |
| James Spillane | Republican | Yea |
| James Summers | Republican | Yea |
| James Thibault | Republican | Yea |
| James Tierney | Republican | Yea |
| Jason Osborne | Republican | Yea |
| Jay Markell | Republican | Yea |
| Jeanine Notter | Republican | Yea |
| Jeffrey Tenczar | Republican | Yea |
| Jennifer Rhodes | Republican | Yea |
| Jeremy Slottje | Republican | Yea |
| Jess Edwards | Republican | Yea |
| Jim Fedolfi | Republican | Not Voting |
| Jim Kofalt | Republican | Yea |
| Jodi Nelson | Republican | Yea |
| Joe Alexander | Republican | Yea |
| Joe Sweeney | Republican | Yea |
| John Hunt | Republican | Yea |
| John Janigian | Republican | Not Voting |
| John Leavitt | Republican | Yea |
| John MacDonald | Republican | Yea |
| John Potucek | Republican | Yea |
| John Schneller | Republican | Yea |
| John Sellers | Republican | Yea |
| John Suiter | Republican | Yea |
| John Sytek | Republican | Nay |
| Jonathan Morton | Republican | Yea |
| Jonathan Smith | Republican | Yea |
| Jordan Ulery | Republican | Yea |
| Jose Cambrils | Republican | Yea |
| Joseph Barton | Republican | Yea |
| Joseph Guthrie | Republican | Nay |
| Joseph Hamblen | Republican | Yea |
| Judy Aron | Republican | Yea |
| Julie Miles | Republican | Yea |
| Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Republican | Yea |
| Julius Soti | Republican | Yea |
| Karel Crawford | Republican | Yea |
| Katelyn Kuttab | Republican | Yea |
| Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Republican | Yea |
| Kathleen Paquette | Republican | Not Voting |
| Katy Peternel | Republican | Yea |
| Keith Ammon | Republican | Yea |
| Keith Erf | Republican | Yea |
| Kelley Potenza | Republican | Yea |
| Kenneth Weyler | Republican | Yea |
| Kevin Scully | Republican | Yea |
| Kevin Verville | Republican | Yea |
| Kristin Noble | Republican | Not Voting |
| Kristine Perez | Republican | Yea |
| Larry Gagne | Republican | Yea |
| Laurence Miner | Republican | Yea |
| Len Turcotte | Republican | Yea |
| Lex Berezhny | Republican | Yea |
| Lilli Walsh | Republican | Yea |
| Linda Franz | Republican | Yea |
| Linda Gould | Republican | Yea |
| Linda McGrath | Republican | Yea |
| Lino Avellani | Republican | Yea |
| Lisa Mazur | Republican | Yea |
| Lisa Post | Republican | Yea |
| Liz Barbour | Republican | Yea |
| Lori Korzen | Republican | Yea |
| Lorie Ball | Republican | Yea |
| Louise Andrus | Republican | Yea |
| Margaret Drye | Republican | Yea |
| Marie Louise Bjelobrk | Republican | Yea |
| Mark McLean | Republican | Yea |
| Mark Pearson | Republican | Yea |
| Mark Proulx | Republican | Yea |
| Mark Warden | Republican | Yea |
| Mary Ford | Republican | Yea |
| Mary Murphy | Republican | Yea |
| Matt Drew | Republican | Yea |
| Matthew Coker | Republican | Not Voting |
| Matthew Pitaro | Republican | Yea |
| Maureen Mooney | Republican | Yea |
| Melissa Litchfield | Republican | Yea |
| Michael Aron | Republican | Yea |
| Michael Granger | Republican | Yea |
| Michael Harrington | Republican | Yea |
| Michael Moffett | Republican | Yea |
| Michael Vose | Republican | Yea |
| Mike Belcher | Republican | Yea |
| Mike Bordes | Republican | Yea |
| Mike Drago | Republican | Yea |
| Mike Ouellet | Republican | Yea |
| Nicholas Bridle | Republican | Yea |
| Pam Brown | Republican | Yea |
| Paul Terry | Republican | Yea |
| Paul Tudor | Republican | Yea |
| Pete Morency | Republican | Yea |
| Peter Mehegan | Republican | Yea |
| Peter Varney | Republican | Yea |
| Phyllis Katsakiores | Republican | Not Voting |
| Pierre Dupont | Republican | Yea |
| Ralph Boehm | Republican | Yea |
| Raymond Peeples | Republican | Yea |
| Raymond Plante | Republican | Yea |
| Rich Nalevanko | Republican | Yea |
| Richard Brown | Republican | Yea |
| Richard Lascelles | Republican | Yea |
| Richard Tripp | Republican | Yea |
| Riché Colcombe | Republican | Yea |
| Rick Ladd | Republican | Yea |
| Ricky Devoid | Republican | Yea |
| Rita Mattson | Republican | Yea |
| Robert Harb | Republican | Yea |
| Robert Wherry | Republican | Yea |
| Robley Hall | Republican | Yea |
| Ron Dunn | Republican | Yea |
| Ross Berry | Republican | Yea |
| Russell Dumais | Republican | Yea |
| Samuel Farrington | Republican | Yea |
| Sayra DeVito | Republican | Yea |
| Scott Bryer | Republican | Not Voting |
| Sean Durkin | Republican | Yea |
| Seth King | Republican | Yea |
| Shane Sirois | Republican | Yea |
| Sheri Minor | Republican | Not Voting |
| Sherman Packard | Republican | Not Voting |
| Sherri Reinfurt | Republican | Yea |
| Skip Rollins | Republican | Yea |
| Sly Karasinski | Republican | Yea |
| Stephen Boyd | Republican | Yea |
| Stephen Pearson | Republican | Yea |
| Steven Bogert | Republican | Yea |
| Steven Kesselring | Republican | Yea |
| Steven Smith | Republican | Not Voting |
| Susan DeRoy | Republican | Yea |
| Susan Porcelli | Republican | Yea |
| Susan Vandecasteele | Republican | Yea |
| Tanya Donnelly | Republican | Yea |
| Ted Gorski | Republican | Yea |
| Terry Roy | Republican | Yea |
| Thomas Walsh | Republican | Not Voting |
| Tim Mannion | Republican | Yea |
| Tom Dolan | Republican | Yea |
| Tom Ploszaj | Republican | Yea |
| Travis Corcoran | Republican | Yea |
| Travis Toner | Republican | Yea |
| Valerie McDonnell | Republican | Yea |
| Vanessa Sheehan | Republican | Yea |
| Vicki Wilson | Republican | Yea |
| Walter Spilsbury | Republican | Yea |
| Wayne Hemingway | Republican | Yea |
| Wayne MacDonald | Republican | Yea |
| Yury Polozov | Republican | Yea |
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- HR 16 is sponsored by Jack Flanagan (Republican) and Wayne MacDonald (Republican).
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