Over the course of the two and a half days of budget sessions, the House dipped into miniature debates about civil immigration detainers, emergency shelter eligibility, no-cost calls for incarcerated individuals, clean energy mandates, the MBTA Communities Act and more. The final mega-amendment adopted Wednesday would also create a small business ombudsperson to help businessowners navigate a complicated landscape, and convene a commission tasked with studying “the factors that impact the decisions of individuals and businesses to relocate to and from the commonwealth.” That panel’s report would be due by July 1, 2026. $575,000 for a program of collaborative research by the Division of Marine Fisheries through the Marine Fisheries Institute, in collaboration with the School for Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, to apply innovative technology to “assess the biomass of fish in the region managed by the New England Fishery Management Council and hydrodynamic modeling of coastal waters to accurately assess delineation of shellfish growing area classifications and other applications to improve management of marine fisheries resources”;
Author: State House News Service
Published at: 2025-04-30 22:56:35
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