Bill Title: Promoting housing stability and homelessness prevention through a right to counsel pilot program in Massachusetts in response to the COVID-emergency

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 48-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-16 - Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means [S2785 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Salvatore DiDomenico [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-MIDDLE	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Patricia Jehlen [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-02-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Brendan Crighton [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-03-ESS	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Denise Provost [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-27-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Maria Robinson [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-06-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Christine Barber [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-34-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kevin Honan [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-17-SUF	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Marcos Devers [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-16-ESS	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bud Williams [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-11-HAM	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Mike Connolly [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-26-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Daniel Ryan [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-02-SUF	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Joanne Comerford [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-HAMPSH	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator James Welch [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-HAMPDE	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative William Pignatelli [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-03-BER	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Lindsay Sabadosa [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-01-HAM	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Joseph McGonagle [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-28-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Adrian Madaro [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-01-SUF	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Thomas Stanley [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-09-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Peter Capano [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-11-ESS	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Adam Hinds [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-BERKSH	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jose Tosado [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-09-HAM	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Michael Barrett [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-03-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Angelo Puppolo [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-12-HAM	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kay Khan [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-11-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Jason Lewis [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-05-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Nick Collins [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-01-SUF	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative David Linsky [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-05-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Natalie Higgins [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-04-WOR	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kenneth Gordon [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-21-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Paul Mark [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-BERKSH	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Elizabeth Malia [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-11-SUF	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Mary Keefe [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-15-WOR	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Liz Miranda [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-02-SUF	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Frank Moran [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-17-ESS	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Nika Elugardo [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-15-SUF	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Marjorie Decker [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-25-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Tami Gouveia [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-14-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-02-SUF	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Tommy Vitolo [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-15-NOR	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jonathan Hecht [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-29-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator James Eldridge [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-MIDDLE	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Ruth Balser [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-12-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Roselee Vincent [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-16-SUF	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kate Lipper-Garabedian [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-32-MID	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Natalie Blais [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-01-FRA	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Mindy Domb [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-03-HAM	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Susannah Whipps Lee [I]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-02-FRA	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Chynah Tyler [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-07-SUF	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Daniel Carey [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-02-HAM	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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