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Patient advocates and some state governments say hospitals must do more to help patients deal with medical bills before the debt winds up in collections.

Massachusetts lawmakers are considering a bill (H 3999) prohibiting schools from punishing students with meal debts and requiring districts with large shares of low-income students to provide free breakfast and lunch.

Massachusetts lawmakers are considering changes to a 2016 animal welfare law that sets living standards for egg-laying hens and some livestock to avoid a possible egg shortage. The voter law sets standards for how much space is required to keep pigs, calves and egg-laying hens. For hens it requires enough room for the birds to be capable of “fully spreading…

Massachusetts lawmakers are considering changes to a 2016 animal welfare law that sets living standards for egg-laying hens and some livestock to avoid a possible egg shortage.

Lawmakers are taking up legislation Monday that would allow safe drug use sites to open in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts lawmakers will hold an invite-only oversight hearing on COVID-19 vaccinations for children at the Museum of Science Monday.

Lawmakers will introduce a decade-long pilot program Friday to establish at least two safe injection sites in Massachusetts, a place where people can inject illicit drugs under medical supervision. Reps. Dylan Fernandes and Marjorie Decker, Sen. Julian Cyr and the Massachusetts for Supervised Consumption Sites Coalition will host a virtual briefing at 1 p.m. on the legislation. The proposed 10-year…

Massachusetts lawmakers will introduce a controversial pilot program Friday to establish at least two safe injection sites in Massachusetts.

A state representative from Boston pitched a strategy Tuesday to repair some of the damage the pandemic has done for education: allow any student who will soon graduate to stay in school for an additional year.

While Massachusetts lawmakers have been slow-walking proposals to legalize sports betting over the last three years, the revenue and jobs that the activity could provide have passed Massachusetts by, supporters told the Joint Committee on Economic Development on Thursday. Legal sports betting has proliferated around the country, including in nearby states like Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and New York….

A bill temporarily extending a host of pandemic-era policies that would otherwise expire in connection with next Tuesday’s termination of the COVID-19 state of emergency cleared the Massachusetts Senate on a voice vote Thursday afternoon. The bill keeps measures including the authorizations for mail-in voting, remote public meetings and takeout cocktails for several months. Sen. Michael Rodrigues, who chairs...

Feel like cussing at a sports game? Spitting on the sidewalk? These weird laws are still on the books in Massachusetts and, along with Boston College law professor Dan Farbman, we looked into why.

New England lawmakers were quick to condemn Monday’s supermarket shooting in Boulder, Colorado, which left 10 people dead, including a police officer. “I am horrified by the news coming out of Colorado,” Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut said on Twitter. “I will continue to monitor the situation as I pray for the Boulder community and the families and friends…

House lawmakers may have been exposed to someone testing positive for COVID-19 while they sheltered at an undisclosed location during the Capitol siege on Wednesday.

In a marathon session overnight, Massachusetts lawmakers passed a number of bills.

Massachusetts lawmakers passed a number of bills overnight in a marathon session.

A transportation bill and changes to college sexual violence laws were among the things highlighted by lawmakers overnight.

After 16 hours, Massachusetts lawmakers just wrapped up a marathon session around 4:45 a.m.

Massachusetts lawmakers are in store for another pay raise. Two years after Gov. Charlie Baker certified a raise of 5.93 percent for the 200 members of the House and Senate for the 2019-2020 session, the governor in a letter to Treasurer Deb Goldberg on Wednesday advised her that a 6.46 percent increase is warranted in the base pay of legislators…

Maine House Democrats have selected a lawmaker to succeed House Speaker Sara Gideon who would be the youngest House speaker in the country serving currently and the first openly gay man to serve in the leadership position in Maine. Rep. Ryan Fecteau of Biddeford was nominated by fellow Democrats to serve as speaker. Since Democrats control the House, it’s...