Vote to Create a Commission to Study Costs of Changing Workers' Compensation Law Senate #192
Vote Description
This vote was to commission a study to look into the costs associated with making a change to the workers' compensation law in Massachusetts.
Mass Fiscal Explanation
Mass Fiscal would have voted yes. Before making changes to workers' compensation laws, it is useful to have hard, empirical evidence on hand about the costs associated with making such a change.
Mass Fiscal's Stance
Fiscal Responsibility Vote
Good Government Vote
Vote result on 10/22/2015
FAILED
Yea
9
Nay
30
Find A Legislature
| Michael Barrett | Third Middlesex |  | 3% | |
| William N. Brownsberger | Second Suffolk and Middlesex | | 5% | |
| Harriette L. Chandler | First Worcester | | 3% | |
| Sonia Chang-Diaz | Second Suffolk | | 37% | |
| Cynthia Stone Creem | First Middlesex and Norfolk | | 3% | |
| Viriato Manuel deMacedo | Plymouth and Barnstable |  | 64% | |
| Sal N. DiDomenico | Middlesex and Suffolk | | 3% | |
| Kenneth J. Donnelly | Fourth Middlesex | | 4% | |
| Eileen Donoghue | First Middlesex | | 7% | |
| Benjamin B. Downing | Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden | | 7% | |
| James B. Eldridge | Middlesex and Worcester | | 3% | |
| Ryan C. Fattman | Worcester and Norfolk | | 68% | |
| Jennifer L. Flanagan | Worcester and Middlesex | | 8% | |
| Linda Dorcena Forry | First Suffolk | | 3% | |
| Anne M. Gobi | Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire, and Middlesex | | 7% | |
| Robert L. Hedlund | Plymouth and Norfolk | | 89% | |
| Donald F. Humason | Second Hampden and Hampshire | | 49% | |
| Kathleen O'Connor Ives | First Essex | | 8% | |
| Patricia D. Jehlen | Second Middlesex | | 3% | |
| Brian A. Joyce | Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth | | 4% | |
| John F. Keenan | Norfolk and Plymouth | | 4% | |
| Thomas P. Kennedy | Second Plymouth and Bristol | | 6% | |
| Barbara L'Italien | Second Essex and Middlesex | | 5% | |
| Eric P. Lesser | First Hampden and Hampshire | | 3% | |
| Jason M. Lewis | Fifth Middlesex | | 3% | |
| Joan B. Lovely | Second Essex | | 6% | |
| Thomas M. McGee | Third Essex | | 3% | |
| Mark C. Montigny | Second Bristol and Plymouth | | 7% | |
| Michael O. Moore | Second Worcester | | 13% | |
| Marc R. Pacheco | First Plymouth and Bristol | | 3% | |
| Anthony Petruccelli | First Suffolk and Middlesex | | 19% | |
| Michael J. Rodrigues | First Bristol and Plymouth | | 6% | |
| Stanley C. Rosenberg | Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester | | 1% | |
| Richard J. Ross | Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex | | 50% | |
| Michael F. Rush | Norfolk and Suffolk | | 5% | |
| Karen Spilka | Second Middlesex and Norfolk | | 3% | |
| Bruce E. Tarr | First Essex and Middlesex | | 54% | |
| James E. Timilty | Bristol and Norfolk | | 11% | |
| James T. Welch | Hampden | | 5% | |
| Daniel A. Wolf | Cape and Islands | | 3% |