Beacon Hill Roll Call
Volume 50 – Report No. 19
May 5–9, 2025
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THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators’ votes on the only roll call from the week of May 5-9. There were no roll calls in the House last week.
During the week of May 5-9, the House met for a total of ten minutes while the Senate met for a total of nine hours and 53 minutes.
$1.3 BILLION FOR TRANSPORTATION AND EDUCATION (S 2512)- Senate 40-0, approved a $1.3 billion supplemental budget that uses funds generated from the recent surtax imposed on taxpayers’ earnings of more than $1 million annually, to fund $617 million for education-related projects and $670 million for transportation-related ones. The House has already approved its own version of the budget, and a House-Senate conference committee will hammer out a compromise version that will be sent to Gov. Maura Healey.
A total of $370 million of the $670 million for transportation will be used for various MBTA projects.
The $617 million for education includes $248 million for special education; $190 million for higher education; $50 million for local school construction; $25 million for literacy growth; $100 million for Career Technical Education Capital Grants; and $10 million for English Language Learning Programs.
(A “Yes” vote is for the $1.3 billion budget.)
Sen. Jason Lewis – Yes
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