Require 6 Hearings for New or Higher Taxes Senate #308
Vote Description
This vote was on amendment #45 to S4, the Senate Budget, which would require the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees to hold six hearings in different places around the state, on bills referred to them that increase taxes or fees or establish new taxes or fees.
Mass Fiscal Explanation
Mass Fiscal would have voted for this amendment to support more transparency when it comes to taxes and fees.
Mass Fiscal's Stance
Fiscal Responsibility Vote
Good Government Vote
Vote result on 05/24/2016
FAILED
Yea
6
Nay
32
Find A Legislature
| Michael Barrett | Third Middlesex |  | 3% | |
| Joe Boncore | First Suffolk and Middlesex | | 0% | |
| Michael Brady | 2nd Plymouth and Bristol | | 1% | |
| William N. Brownsberger | Second Suffolk and Middlesex | | 5% | |
| Harriette L. Chandler | First Worcester | | 3% | |
| Sonia Chang-Diaz | Second Suffolk | | 37% | |
| Cynthia Stone Creem | First Middlesex and Norfolk | | 3% | |
| Viriato Manuel deMacedo | Plymouth and Barnstable |  | 64% | |
| Sal N. DiDomenico | Middlesex and Suffolk | | 3% | |
| Kenneth J. Donnelly | Fourth Middlesex | | 4% | |
| Eileen Donoghue | First Middlesex | | 7% | |
| Benjamin B. Downing | Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden | | 7% | |
| James B. Eldridge | Middlesex and Worcester | | 3% | |
| Ryan C. Fattman | Worcester and Norfolk | | 68% | |
| Jennifer L. Flanagan | Worcester and Middlesex | | 8% | |
| Linda Dorcena Forry | First Suffolk | | 3% | |
| Anne M. Gobi | Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire, and Middlesex | | 7% | |
| Robert L. Hedlund | Plymouth and Norfolk | | 89% | |
| Donald F. Humason | Second Hampden and Hampshire | | 49% | |
| Kathleen O'Connor Ives | First Essex | | 8% | |
| Patricia D. Jehlen | Second Middlesex | | 3% | |
| Brian A. Joyce | Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth | | 4% | |
| John F. Keenan | Norfolk and Plymouth | | 4% | |
| Thomas P. Kennedy | Second Plymouth and Bristol | | 6% | |
| Barbara L'Italien | Second Essex and Middlesex | | 5% | |
| Eric P. Lesser | First Hampden and Hampshire | | 3% | |
| Jason M. Lewis | Fifth Middlesex | | 3% | |
| Joan B. Lovely | Second Essex | | 6% | |
| Thomas M. McGee | Third Essex | | 3% | |
| Mark C. Montigny | Second Bristol and Plymouth | | 7% | |
| Michael O. Moore | Second Worcester | | 13% | |
| Patrick O'Connor | Plymouth and Norfolk | | 40% | |
| Marc R. Pacheco | First Plymouth and Bristol | | 3% | |
| Anthony Petruccelli | First Suffolk and Middlesex | | 19% | |
| Michael J. Rodrigues | First Bristol and Plymouth | | 6% | |
| Stanley C. Rosenberg | Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester | | 1% | |
| Richard J. Ross | Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex | | 50% | |
| Michael F. Rush | Norfolk and Suffolk | | 5% | |
| Karen Spilka | Second Middlesex and Norfolk | | 3% | |
| Bruce E. Tarr | First Essex and Middlesex | | 54% | |
| James E. Timilty | Bristol and Norfolk | | 11% | |
| James T. Welch | Hampden | | 5% | |
| Daniel A. Wolf | Cape and Islands | | 3% |