MA H4055

Bill

So much of the message from Her Excellency the Governor returning the General Appropriation Bill for fiscal year 2024 (see House, No. 4040) as relates to Attachments A through G, for items returned with disapproval of wording under the provisions of Section 5 of Article LXIII and sections returned with recommendations of amendments under the provisions of Article LVI of the Amendments to the Constitution (House, No. 4055). August 9, 2023

Introduced
08/10/2023

In Committee

Crossed Over

Passed

Dead
12/31/2024

Introduced Session

193rd General Court

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This bill proposes the following key changes: 1. It requires a license for any person seeking to mine, expand, excavate, or operate a quarry, sand and gravel operation, or other aggregate source for the purpose of producing concrete aggregate. The license application must include a geological source report and aggregate testing for the presence of pyrite and pyrrhotite. 2. It directs the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission and the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to study and report on the status of alcohol enforcement in gaming establishments and the effectiveness of their ongoing collaborative relationship. 3. It requires the Department of Correction and county Sheriffs to provide free voice communication services, including phone calls, to incarcerated individuals in state and county correctional facilities, effective December 1, 2023. It also requires the Department and Sheriffs to consolidate communication services contracts to increase purchasing power. 4. It allows employees to supplement their weekly Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) benefit amount with accrued vacation time, sick time, or other paid leave, effective 180 days after the passage of the act and retroactive to July 1, 2023. 5. It requires MassHealth ground ambulance services provided to Fee-For-Service and Managed Care Plan members who are also Medicare eligible to be paid at the Medicare rate, subject to federal approval.

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Last Action

See H4040 (on 08/10/2023)

Official Document

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4055

(6 Companion Bills)

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Document Type	Source Location
State Bill Page	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4055
BillText	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4055.pdf

Bill	Bill Name	Last Action	Type
H4040	Making appropriations for the fiscal year 2024 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions, and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund, and serial bond requirements, and for certain permanent improvements	Item 7004-0102 passed over veto -see Roll Call #79 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0)	Replaced by
H4050	Relative to requiring the Highway Division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to establish a department and licensure process to oversee quarries producing concrete aggregate	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 56 of the Acts of 2023	Similar To
H4051	Relative to the distribution of alcoholic beverages consumed in gaming establishments not within gaming areas	No further action taken	Similar To
H4052	Providing for unlimited free phone calls to incarcerated individuals	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 64 of the Acts of 2023	Similar To
H4053	Relative to the paid family and medical leave program	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2023	Similar To
H4054	Relative to the rate of payment for certain MassHealth ground ambulance services	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 54 of the Acts of 2023	Similar To

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