The formal legislative session in the Massachusetts State House ends in less than 100 days, on July 31.

Although the session will continue on an informal basis through January 5 of next year, the vast majority of all legislative action will happen between now and the end of July. So what’s happened so far?

There have been 167 bills signed into law:

• 122 were home rule petitions for one city or town
• 22 were administrative matters for specific state employees
• 10 were budgets or supplemental budgets
• 4 were awareness days
• 2 were bond authorizations

That leaves 7 stand-alone bills:

• Temporarily extending hybrid meeting access for local meetings
• Updating the state’s shield law protecting access to gender-affirming and reproductive health care
• Setting the primary election for September 1
• Strengthening protections against assault & battery for transit workers
• Making car rentals more affordable
• Updating the collection of birth and death statistics
• Modernizing cannabis regulations

Now, to be fair, the Legislature has passed various new policies through the budget, such as banning tenant-paid broker’s fees and creating an immigrant legal defense fund (both big wins). And we have been able to see transformative investments in education and transportation due to Fair Share revenue that YOU helped win on the ballot in 2022.

And some bills have passed one chamber and not the other. You can see some of those on our Legislator Scorecard, through February.

But what this shows us is that there is still so much work left to do this session. We’re ready to keep fighting. So keep making calls and emails (an getting friends and neighbors to do so as well).