MA H125

Bill

To address inequality, promote opportunity, and end poverty

Introduced
01/23/2017

In Committee
04/09/2018

Crossed Over

Passed

Dead
12/31/2018

Introduced Session

190th General Court

Bill Summary

Relative to the establishment of an interagency council to address inequality, promote opportunity and end poverty. Community Development and Small Businesses.

AI Summary

This bill establishes an Interagency Council to Address Inequality, Promote Opportunity, and End Poverty. The Council will review existing programs and make recommendations to ensure that services aimed at addressing poverty and inequality are coordinated and provided effectively. The bill also creates the Community Action Trust Fund to Address Inequality, Promote Opportunity, and End Poverty, which will finance innovative community-based programs and services to alleviate the causes of poverty. The fund will be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development and assisted by an advisory committee. Additionally, the bill provides supplementary funding to community action agencies in Massachusetts and specifies procedures for the designation, suspension, or rescission of such agencies.

Committee Categories

Budget and Finance, Business and Industry

Sponsors (4)

Tackey Chan (D), Paul Frost (R), Danielle Gregoire (D), Joan Lovely (D),

Last Action

No further action taken (on 01/01/2019)

Official Document

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H125

(4 Companion Bills)

Version:

Document Type	Source Location
State Bill Page	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H125
Bill	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H125.pdf

Bill	Bill Name	Last Action	Type
H1317	Establishing the building code coordinating council	No further action taken	Similar To
H1782	To expand membership opportunities in local cultural councils	Read second and ordered to a third reading	Similar To
H2944	To (1) establish a solid waste management council, (2) to require the Department to increase certain types of data collection; (3) to impose a surcharge on waste disposal; (4) to require municipalities to institute pay as you throw programs if they are generating too much waste for disposal per capita; (5) to require that all waste be disposed of in clear plastic bags; (6) to increase recycling to include mattresses, textiles and additional commercial organic material; and (7) to require seconda	No further action taken	Similar To
S89	To address inequality, promote opportunity and end poverty	Accompanied H125	Replaces

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