Bill > S1795

This bill establishes the "Special Elections-Executive orders, Benefit Enrollment and Special Order Petitions Ballots Act" in Massachusetts. The key provisions include: 1. Authorizing the "Special Election Act Trust and its appointed commissioner" to provide unlimited treasury notes to fund special elections covering executive orders, benefit enrollment, and special order petitions ballots, allowing voters to submit questions on these issues at the local, state, and federal levels. 2. Establishing a special filing period for petitions related to private laws, appropriations, and requests for automatic enrollment in various voter benefit programs, with an emergency preamble and a stated duration. 3. Allowing public petitions to be submitted as supported, neutral, or opposed to pending legislation and new late-filed bills. 4. Granting executive orders the authority to cover all voter elections on matters of private law, land/water use, health, science, education, and other government initiatives. 5. Giving equal legal authorization to special order petitions that are voted on, as if they were executive orders issued by various government officials. 6. Requiring the electronic processing and signing of authorization letters for these special election orders, which will then be established as part of the laws of Massachusetts and the United States Government, as applicable.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S1795