Bill > H3505

This bill establishes a special commission, composed of members of the General Court (the Massachusetts legislature), the Commissioner of Public Safety, the Commissioner of Revenue, the Director of the Department of Labor Relations, and four members appointed by the governor (including representatives from police and fire fighter associations), to study how effective it would be to pay for the construction of public safety buildings, such as police stations and fire houses, using money generated from the sales tax. The commission will examine how the Massachusetts School Building Authority, which already uses a portion of the sales tax for school construction, operates and will compare the needs for public safety building projects with the goals of the school building authority, ultimately recommending a specific percentage of the sales tax that should be dedicated to funding public safety building construction and explaining why.