Recently active Massachusetts legislation

• Yes would end legal, state-regulated retail sales of recreational marijuana. Medical marijuana would remain legal.

• No would keep the current legal, state-regulated retail market for recreational marijuana.

• Yes would allow single-family homes on qualifying residential lots while retaining specified local regulatory powers.

• No would leave the rules governing these lots unchanged by this proposal.

• Yes would create the Nature for All Fund and dedicate specified tax revenue to it, subject to legislative appropriation.

• No would leave funding rules unchanged and would not create this fund.

• Yes would base the limit on the previous year’s actual tax revenue and count the income surtax in both the limit and the refund calculation.

• No would keep the current formula, which builds on the previous year’s limit and leaves the surtax out.

• Yes would let eligible residents register or update their address at their polling place on Election Day, though it would not let anyone switch parties that day.

• No would keep the current rule that you must register at least 10 days before an election.

• Yes would create one state primary open to all candidates and voters, with the top two finishers advancing to the general election starting in 2028.

• No would keep separate party primaries, where each voter takes only one party’s ballot.

• Yes would let the committee’s employees unionize and bargain, and would require the committee to request funding for any agreement, though the funding is not guaranteed.

• No would keep the committee off the list of public employers required to bargain with a union.

• Yes would extend public records law to most records of the legislature and governor’s office, with specified exceptions.

• No would leave public records law unchanged by this proposal.

Voters rejected it.

• Yes would have raised the wage employers pay tipped workers to the full state minimum over five years, after which employers could have pooled tips among all non management workers.

  34%

• No kept the existing system, under which employers may pay a lower hourly wage but must make up any shortfall if wages plus tips do not reach the full minimum wage. It also kept the existing tip-pooling rules.

  61%

Voters rejected it.

• Yes would have let adults over 21 use certain natural psychedelics under licensed supervision, grow and possess limited amounts at home, and created a commission to regulate them.

  41%

• No kept the law on natural psychedelic substances as it was.

  54%

Voters approved it.

• Yes gave app based transportation drivers a way to form unions and bargain with the companies over pay, benefits, and working conditions.

  50%

• No would have made no change to existing law on transportation network drivers forming unions.

  43%

Voters approved it.

• Yes removed passing the MCAS as a condition of a high school diploma. Students still have to complete coursework their district certifies as meeting state standards.

  57%

• No would have kept passing the MCAS as a graduation requirement.

  39%

Voters approved it.

• Yes put into law that the state auditor may audit the legislature.

  66%

• No would have left the auditor’s authority as it stood.

  26%