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THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT

of the

LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COUNCil

and the

LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH BUREAU.

For Cumulative List of all Important Reports Since 1955, See Appendix A

November 10, 1987. 7 HOUSE - No. 2000 | January

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ANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED

(General Laws, Chapter 3, Section 61)

Section 61. The bureau shall make such reports to the council as are required by it. The council may report from time to time to the general court and shall make an annual report in writing to the general court by filing a copy of the same with the clerk of the house of representatives on or before the second Wednesday of November in each year. 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 3

CONTENTS Page Statute Requiring Annual Report 2 Letter of Transmittal to the Senate and House of Representatives 4

I. ORGANIZATION 5

11. OPERATIONS 8 Assignments and Requests 10 Research Assignments 10 Research Requests 11 Assistance to Committees and Special Commissions 17 Legislative Redistricting Assignments 17 Assistance to Special Commission on the Division of the Department of Mental Health 21 Distribution of Reports 23 Index of Special Reports 23 Governmental Action Publications 24 National Conference of State Legislatures 24 Other Activities 24 Exhibit A 25

TABLES

1. Annual “Substantial” and “Spot” Research Requests, 1957-1987 12

2. Origin of “Substantial” and “Spot” Research Requests ... 13

APPENDICES

A. Cumulative List of Important Research Council Reports Since 1955 36 B. Statute Creating Council and Bureau 121 4 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : We have the honor to submit the Thirty-third Annual Report of the Legislative Research Council and Bureau. This annual report must be submitted to the Clerk of the House of Representatives on or before the second Wednesday of November under the terms of General Laws, chapter 3, section 61.

Respectfully submitted,

MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COUNCIL

Sen. ANNA P. BUCKLEY OF Plymouth, Chairman Rep. FRANCIS G. MARA of Brockton, House Chairman Rep. JAMES T. BRETT of Boston, Vice-Chairman Sen. JOSEPH B. WALSH of Suffolk and Norfolk Sen. JOHN F. PARKER of Bristol Sen. PETER C. WEBBER of Berkshire Rep. WILLIAM J. FLYNN, Jr., of Hanover Rep. WILLIAM P. NAGLE, Jr., of Northampton Rep. CHARLES N. DECAS of Wareham Rep. SHERMAN W. SALTMARSH, Jr., of Winchester Rep. KEVIN POIRIER of North Attleborough Rep. ROBERT L. HOWARTH of Springfield 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 5

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1. ORGANIZATION

The Massachusetts Legislative Research Council and Bureau were established by statute 33 years ago (G.L. c. 3, ss. 56-61, as amended; reprinted as Appendix B to this report). This enabling law provides for a Council of twelve legislators who constitute the policy making body with respect to a legislative research program. The law also empowered the Council to bring into being a Legislative Research Bureau to serve under its direction and to carry out its policies. The Legislative Research Council’s membership of twelve is composed offour senators and eight representatives. Under the terms of the statute, the President of the Senate names the four senate members annually, designating one of them as Chairman. Similarly, the Speaker of the House of Representatives names the eight House members annually, designating one of them as Vice Chairman. In the case of delays in naming members to the Council, the law provides that members continue to serve until their successors are appointed, provided such members are continued in office by the electorate. Unlike joint standing committees of the General Court, the Council by law, is truly a bipartisan committee in that the appointees from each branch must be evenly divided between the two major political parties. Another feature distinguishing the Council from joint standing committees is stated in a joint opinion of Senate and House Counsels: Joint Rule 1 A, requiring public meetings of the legislative committees unless a majority of the committee members vote otherwise, does not apply to the Council. And, while chairmen of joint standing committees receive additional compensation, all members of the Council, by law, serve without pay but are reimbursed for necessary expenses. On January 28, 1985, the Senate President appointed the following members of the Senate to the Council: Senators Anna P. Buckley of Plymouth (Chairman), Joseph B. Walsh of Suffolk and Norfolk, John F. Parker of Bristol and Peter C. Webber of Berkshire. The President 6 HOUSE -No. 2000 [January has not made any appointments to the Council since the new General Court met in January; the aforenamed senators continue to serve on the Council. On September 28, 1987, the Speaker announced the House members of the Council: Representatives Francis G. Mara of Brockton (House Chairman), James T. Brett of Boston (Vice Chairman), William J. Flynn, Jr., of Hanover, William P. Nagle, Jr., of Northampton, Charles N. Decas of Wareham, Sherman W. Saltmarsh, Jr., of Winchester, Kevin Poirier of North Attleborough and Robert L. Howarth of Springfield. The naming of a House Chairman in addition to a Vice Chairman (only the latter is required by statute) is in conformity with the practice in the House of designating both a House Chairman and a Vice Chairman among the House members. Representative Poirier replaces former Representative Switzler of Wellesley who did not stand for reelection and Representative Howarth replaces the late Representative Bruce N. Freeman of Chelmsford. As indicated above, although the Council has the statutory responsibility for determining policies with respect to a legislative research program, it is the Bureau, under the Council’s direction, which executes those policies. The Council is empowered to appoint a qualified Director of the Bureau and such assistants as are necessary to carry out the program of statistical research and fact finding. Although appointed by the Council, compensation of staff personnel must be approved by the Committees on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently. All of the Bureau staff are outside the civil service system. The primary responsibility of the Bureau is to assist members, committees, and commissions of the General Court (s. 59) but it has other statutory responsibilities which include receiving and screening records of certain expiring committees and the preparation of certain reports (ss. 60-61). In the course of fulfilling these mandates, the Bureau maintains a strong liaison with similar legislative research agencies in the other states which, over the years, has led to a valuable exchange of data. For example, each year the research agencies in most of the states seek from each otherresearch information and other assistance on legislative matters. These requests are always given careful attention by this Research Bureau. Consequently, The Bureau 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 7 not only receives copies of the resultant, useful reports of other legislative agencies, but their help is forthcoming when we ask assistance, particularly in the preparation of recess reports assigned by the Genera! Court. Such professional and personal cooperation among legislative staffs makes available to each research agency the assistance of experienced research personnel in nearly every state. Thus, the Commonwealth is the beneficiary of a broad scope of knowledge and experience that could be duplicated only at great cost. While the Bureau staff is structured so as to provide aresearch team of generalists as opposed to specialists, there are some staff members who, through advanced education and in-service assignments, have acquired acknowledged skills in particular areas. Whenever possible, assignments are made to take advantage of such in-house expertise. The present composition of the Bureau staff is as follows: Director Daniel J. Foley of Worcester Assistant Director Robert D. Webb of Medford Chief Research Analyst James Hugh Powers of Needham Administrative Assistant Agnes Anne Dziak of Boston to the Director Legal Counsel Paul M. Murphy of Brockton Senior Research Assistant Michael A. Nazzaro, Jr., of Boston Senior Research Analyst Charles R. Ring of Sharon Research Assistant Joseph J. Semensi of Randolph Research Assistant Robert E. England of Boston Research Assistant Joseph R. Conte of Worcester Junior Research Assistant Maribeth Moran of Somerville Junior Research Assistant Steven J. Barrus of Boston Research and Information Mary M. Tierney of Hull Assistant Supervisor of Office Theresa E. Conway of Milton Information Systems Senior Secretary Patricia M. O’Brien of Somerville 8 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Appropriation requests of $9,000 for the Council and $668,000 for the Bureau were approved for fiscal 1988. Major expenses chargeable to the Council result from attendance of Council members at the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and participation of members in regional meetings and conferences of research and other governmental groups. For the Bureau, which was relocated to new quarters at 30 Winter Street in the fall of 1986, the requested sum takes into account addi- tions to staff, salary adjustments, larger expenditures for rent, supplies and other administrative requisites and the purchase and maintenance of new equipment. Conversion to a modern office information system featuring word processing is nearly complete. A tie-in to the Legislature’s computerized bill status and statutory retrieval system has been delayed because of technical problems. Accumulation of vast amounts of research materials and the need to maintain a ready reserve of scores of Bureau publications for distribution have combined to reduce available floor space for staff operations. The Bureau intends to transfer as much as is feasible onto microfilm so that the bulk of the Bureau’s many files of seldom used but necessary materials would be on microfiche, thus freeing much needed floor space. A decision on this move is being deferred until the Bureau obtains the services of a professional librarian to plan and assist in the execution of such a project.

11. OPERATIONS The rationale and intent of the General Court in establishing a Legislative Research Bureau are clearly expressed in Section 1 of the enabling statute (Acts of 1954, c. 607) which declares “that the volume of complexity of legislative matters before the General Court have shown a prodigious increase since the close of World War II; that the technical aspects of many of these matters are of such a nature as to require a high degree of specialization on the part of the legislative members; that painstaking, exhaustive and accurate fact-finding is a necessity in the proper discharge of legislative duties in a legislative body encompassing the scope of the General Court of Massa- chusetts; that a legislative research staff is currently recognized as an invaluable and indispensable tool in the efficient performance of the 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 9 legislative process, and that it is the intention of this act to establish a legislative research staff which shall perform its duties in a manner completely impartial and nonpartisan at all times and in conformance with the highest standards of research practice for the assistance and benefit of the members, committees and commissions of the general court.” From the foregoing language, it is obvious that the foremost purpose in bringing the Bureau into existence was for the “assistance and benefit of the members, committees and commissions of the general court.” However, as shown elsewhere in this report, the Bureau does respond to requests for information emanating from sources outside the Legislature. From the outset of Bureau operations. Council policy has been that when there is no interference with legislative priorities, the Bureau may respond to reasonable requests for information aris- ing from governmental agencies and. in some cases, the private sector, such as civic and educational groups. Such a policy has been mutually beneficial to the Bureau and requesting sources in that it has widened the range of contact sources for the Bureau and on several occasions has provided a fruitful exchange of information. Of paramount important are the three mandates set forth in the language of legislative intent for Bureau staff to heed; Staff must at all times be (1) completely impartial. (2) nonpartisan, and (3) in conformance with the highest standards of research practice. The Council has always insisted on strict adherence to these commands in order to preserve the integrity of the Bureau and credibility of its output. The burden of maintaining a staff that is politically neutral, and both objective and professional in performance has rested on the successive Directors. It has been a task not always easily borne because no Director has had complete freedom to recruit or to hire personnel and thus be in a position to control the quality of appointments. Yet there is a vital need, for the success of the research program, to maintain a professional staff possessing not only strong analytic and quantitative skills but the ability to speak and write clearly. Beyond these basic needs there is a further need for diversity of staff background in various disciplines, preferably in political science, economics, law and public or business administration. The Bureau, no matter how well led, can be no more effective than the talents and industriousness of its staff will allow. Thus, the education, training and experience of its staff are critical elements in pursuing the 10 HOUSE No. 2000 [January statutory goal of “highest standards of research practice. Assuming one has the preferred educational and training background, it is the researcher who also has a natural intellectual curiosity about public issues, who is comfortable in analytical waters, and who is articulate communicating either orally or in writing, who will assure the Coun- cil that standards set forth in the enabling statute will be met. Assignments and Requests The annual volume of the Bureau’s workload is generally determined by (1) research assignments and (2) research requests. Research assignments are major in-depth studies of specified subjects which the General Court orders be made. The reports are printed as legislative documents and serve as reference sources during the period over which the contents have current value. The second major aspect of the Bureau’s work program consists of responses to research requests from individual legislators, legislative committees and special commissions, and from public and private agencies and individuals, both within and outside the state. Some of these requests are answered orally; others are serviced through the tender or loan of research data. Most of these responses are letters or memoranda containing substantial data even though compara- tively brief in form. In some cases, however, these replies may be 50 or more pages. Research Assignments Orders mandating research assignments are adopted during each session as the General Court decides there is a need for further information to assist in the resolution of complex issues and questions. Such directives establish reporting dates, usually early in the next legislative session. During the calendar year 1987, three recess reports were completed and filed for publication as legislative documents: The Grand Jury, Senate, No. 1626 of 1987 (84 pp.); Alternative Sentencing, Senate, No. 2061 of 1987 (55 pp.); and Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority: The Decline and Fall ofState Sovereignty, House, No. 6133 of 1987 (75 pp.). Since 1956, the Council has completed 240 recess reports in compliance with legislative orders. These reports along with selected other reports ordered to be printed are identified by capital lettering in Appendix A to this annual report. 19881 HOUSE - No. 2000 11

In addition, as part of its statutory mandate to “assist the members of the general court... in all matters requiring statistical research or fact finding in connection with proposed legislation . . ~” the Research Bureau introduced on its own initiative a new document series entitled Research In Brief. The intent of this series is to provide the membership with short, timely reports on issues of current interest which capture the principal points of controversy. Two such reports were completed in 1987: Judicial Conduct Proceedings, A Privileged Sanctuary? Research In Brief, 87-1, 25 pages: Drug Test- ing: Test Tubes and Jobs, Research In Brief, 87-2, 25 pages. A total of 218 copies of the Judicial Conduct document have been distributed thus far and a total of 267 of the Drug Testing brief are in circula- tion. Research Requests Beyond the above assignemnts made by the General Court, responding to the numerous research requests received from all sources is another important activity of the Research Bureau. Research requests are received throughout the year but this activity takes on a greater dimension when the General Court is in session as legislators and legislative committees seek more frequent assistance. Another work peak occurs when legislators seek Bureau help during the weeks before the presession bill deadline; the first Wednesday of November of the odd-numbered years and the first Wednesday of December of even-numbered years. These requests are divided into two categories. First are “substantial” requests, requiring the preparation of several pages of material. Second are “spot” requests, which require only limited research and which may be answered orally, or serviced by the quick assembly of printed matter from which the inquirer may obtain information. This descriptive division of the two types of requests is a clue to the amount of research effort involved. While some “substantial” requests require more effort than do others in the same category, all of them necessitate far more research than “spot" requests. Table 1 indicates the number of “substantial” and “spot” requests which the Bureau has answered since 1957. Such reports dating from 1967 which are of general interest are included in Appendix A to this document. 12 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

TABLE I. Annual “Substantial”and “Spot" Research Requests, 1957-1987 “Substantial” “Spot” Year Requests Requests 1957 90 74 1958 81 90 1959 80 57 1960 68 151 1961 69 242 1962 57 189 1963 75 246 1964 62 218 1965 112 247 1966 76 326 1967 65 504 1968 63 466 1969 71 559 1970 55 592 1971 74 785 1972 73 817 1973 47 766 1974 47 949 1975 40 901 1976 30 707 1977 53 932 1978 41 716 1979 41 809 1980 49 800 1981 42 896 1982 32 715 1983 50 659 1984 22 569 1985 70 611 1986 60 682 1987 41 685 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 13

Table 2 shows the source of the above total of 41 “substantial” and 685 “spot” requests handled during the past twelve months. The first two footnotes list those members of the General Court who requested research assistance on one or more occasions. The third footnote lists committees and other legislative bodies or staff who sought assistance. The fourth footnote indicates that a legislative service agency in the states noted sought Bureau assistance during the year.

TABLE 2. Origin of“Substantial” and “Spot" Research Requests

“Substantial” “Spot” Source of Requests Requests RequeRequests Legislators: Senators 1 6 31 Representatives 2 15 82 Committees 3 1 17 Massachusetts Agencies (State and Local) 5 69 Out-of-State Research Agencies 4 9 148 Miscellaneous: Governmental 3 32 Civic, Professional and Educational I 73 Newspapers, Radio and TV I 16 Individuals and Firms 217 Total 41 685

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Representatives: K Brett. Bui ;don. DiMasi. F Magnani, Marsh, McC nd W

Ways & & Committees: Senate Means, House Ways & Meai :e I :s H Bui

States: Alaska, Arkansas. California, Colorac K Louisiana, Maine. Maryland. Michigan, M New Hampshire, N C NorthDakota, Ohio. Oklahoma, Oregon. Pei Rh Washington. We; Wist 14 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Among the more frequent requests for research from members of the General Court were those related to redistricting, alternative sentencing, mental health infrastructure, and waste treatment facilities. Among requests from other states’ legislative staffs, the most frequent requests were concerned with the “balance billing” law re medicare patients, the corporate takeover law, and the lead paint law. Aside from the recorded written requests in the foregoing tabulation, the Bureau responds almost daily to numerous telephone inquiries, mostly from out-of-state sources, relative to the status of pending legislation. “Substantial Requests". Appendix A to this report contains a cumulative list of all those printed, mimeographed and typed reports issued by the Council and Bureau which seem to have insufficient importance to merit such treatment. To facilitate use of the cumulative list, items are grouped chronologically within the major subject areas printed at the beginning of the Appendix. To illustrate the varied nature of these substantive reports, some of the items which were added to Appendix A this year are listed below. Tax status of armed forces personnel residing in Massachusetts but having legal domicile elsewhere. (3/4/87; 4 pp. typed) “Registered voters” v. “Inhabitants” as basis of apportionment in determining districts for elective offices. (3/9/87; 3 pp. typed) Sales lax exemptions among New England states; background to political and economic considerations. (3/9/87; 4 pp. typed) Updating city or town charters as required by the General Laws. (6/ 4/87; 4 pp. typed) Status of lay midwives in Massachusetts. (5/13/87; 3 pp. typed) “Sunset Laws"; executive branch reorganization. (7/24/87; 7 pp. typed) Restrictions in Massachusetts upon use of He detectors and similar equipment. (I 1/21/86; 3 pp. typed) Methods and programs to treat sludge and ash disposal. (9/28/87; 3 pp. typed) Arguments commonly advanced in opposition to rent control laws. (10/9/87;4 pp. typed) Legislative background toformation of regional health districts. (10 21/87; 3 pp. typed) 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 15

Ways and means whereby a town may change its method ofelecting its board ofselectmen. (9/28/87; 8 pp. typed) Structure, financing and other aspects ofcounty government. (10/14 87; 16 pp. typed) Beyond such examples there are other cases where there is no written record in the form of a “substantial” report. Nevertheless, the extent of the assistance rendered (for example, frequent and extended conferences with committee chairmen and their staffs) warrants their classification as more than a “spot” request in the above tabulation. As indicated earlier in this report, the Bureau responds primarily to the requests of individual legislators and committees. However, as shown in Table 2, “Origin of ‘Substantial’ and ‘Spot’ Research Requests,” the Bureau also assists, as time permits, those outside the Legislature. Frequently, people respond with expressions of gratitude. For example, the following quotations are taken from letters received in response to the various Legislative Research Bureau reports indicated:

I. LRC Report on Judicial Selection in the United States (House, No. 5492 of 1986; written by Robert E. England). “It is a well-researched and most informative document. You and the members of the Legislative Research Council are to be commended for your effort in this report.” (Hon. Samuel E. Zoll, Chief Justice, District Court Department).

“I compliment you and your staff on this fine report . . . and on the very helpful historical review.” (Robert E. Giles, Director of Research and Planning, Administrative Office of the Courts, Raleigh, North Carolina). “It is a valuable .addition to our literature collection on judicial selection.” (Kathleen M. Sampson, Director, Information Services, American Judicature Society).

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. . . (a) most interesting study ... It is a truly first-rate job and one which 1 found enlightening and informative.” (Hon. Francis J. Larkin, First Justice, District Court at Milford). 2. LRB Report on Drug Testing: Test Tubes and Jobs (Research in Brief, 87-2, June 18, 1987, 25 pp., written by Charles R. Ring). “1 commend you for a superb job. You have pulled together information from a host of sources and have served the highest ideals 16 HOUSE No. 2000 [January of the Bureau in providing solid information on important, current subjects to members of the General Court. Congratulations on a job well done!” (Ernest Winsor, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute). “1 found your report to be timely, comprehensive and attentive to the major issues regarding urinary drug testing at work.” (Robert J. McCunney, MD, Corporate Medical Director, Asst. Professor of Public Health, Boston University School of Public Health). “A super piece of work! . . . Every legislative agency should allow their staff to write so well.” (Linda Carroll, Council of State Governments Center for Management and Administration). “The information in the report is both concise and helpful. 1 am delighted to have a copy at hand.”(Hon. James F. McHugh, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court). “1 think the brief is very well done. It addresses the major issues in an objective fashion and succeeds in de-mystifying drug testing as a panacea for the complex social problem of drug abuse in the workplace.” (Loren Siegal, American Civil Liberties Union, N.Y., N.Y.). “I think it does a good job of identifying some of the many issues raised by drug testing in the workplace.” (Professor Mark A. Rothstein, Director, Health Law Institute, University of Houston Law Center). 3. LRC Report on Prisons for Profit (House, No. 6225 of 1986, written by Charles R. Ring). “I read the initial draft and thought it was outstanding. *** This report will be very valuable as it looks at the issue from both sides and is very even-handed.” (Benedict J. Roller, Esq., American Legislative Exchange Council). “1 found the report of extreme interest. It is informative and reflective of the many concerns expressed by those who are involved in the daily administration of the Commonwealth’s Criminal Justice System. “Whatever the decision may be in this Commonwealth concerning privately versus publicly operated prisons, the report gives a great deal of food for thought.”(Hon. Arthur M. Mason, Chief Administrative Justice, The Trial Court of Massachusetts). “. . . . you did a thorough review of the issues.” (Susan M. Hunter, Prisons Division, National Institute of Corrections, U.S. Department of Justice). 1988| HOUSE No. 2000 17

An abridged version of the foregoing report, Prisons for Profit, was published by the American Correctional Association (ACA) under the title, Contracting For The Operation Of Private Prisons, Pros and Cons. The ACA is a multi-disciplinary organization with an active membership of more than 20,000 corrections professionals. To date, the ACA has received orders for nearly 500 copies of the report which has been favorably reviewed in both domestic and international professional journals. In addition to the foregoing recognition, in May of this year, Mr.

Ring published an article on private prisons in the Wall Street Journal , which generated numerous calls from financial institutions, state officials, and members of the media, including a radio interview and a briefing by Newsweek. Finally, Mr. Ring has received several invitations to participate in various conferences and workshops and recently spoke at a seminar on public/ private partnerships sponsored by the Council of State Governments and the National Association of State Purchasing Officers. Assistance to Committees and Special Commissions Standing and special committees of the General Court, and special (interim) commissions established by acts and resolves of that body, continue to avail themselves of the staff expertise and file materials developed within the Legislative Research Bureau. Routine requests for assistance from committee members or their staffs are tabulated in the foregoing tables. In some cases, however, the requests for assistance require considerable time, effort and expertise as to deserve separate review and discussion. Two such instances are the requests for Bureau assistance by the Redistricting Committees of the General Court and by the Special Commission on the Division of the Department of Mental Health described in the following sections. Legislative Redistricting Assignments Since 1966, the General Court has relied in increasing degree upon the Legislative Research Bureau for research assistance in relation to congressional redistricting and the redistricting of the Senate, House of Representatives, and Executive Council. Pursuant to joint order of the two branches, the Legislative Research Council has issued three major reports on these redistricting matters, in 1966, 1969 and 1973, which have served as “bibles” to congressional and state legislative redistricting committees created by the General Court over the past 18 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

20 years. 1 In addition, one Bureau report relative to the treatment of the island counties in the redistricting of the Massachusetts House of Representatives was reprinted in full, as an appendix, in a report of a joint special committee on the redistricting of the General Court and Executive Council ten years ago. 2 The “redistricting” expertise developed within the staff of the Legislative Research Bureau, as a result of the preparation of these reports, was first tapped by the Joint Special Committee on the Redistricting of the General Court and Executive Council established in the joint order, House, No. 4397 (1966) to redistrict the state on the basis of the 1965 state decennial census. James Hugh Powers of the Bureau staff was “loaned” to that Committee for the duration of its life (1966-68), at the request of the legislative leadership. This practice was repeated with the long-lived (1972-79) Joint Special Committee on the Redistricting of the General Court and Executive Council, established by the joint order, House, No. 5093 (1972) to draft two redistrictings, namely; (a) a redivision of the state into 40 senatorial districts, 240 representative districts, and eight executive councillor districts, all single-member, pursuant to the Quinn Amendment to the State Constitution (1970), 3 and (b) the House Cut Amendment to the Constitution (1974), which requires a 40-member Senate, 160-member House of Representatives, and eight-member Executive Council. 4 Representative, now Speaker of the House, the Hon. George Keverian, chaired this committee on the part of the House throughout the Committee’s life, wherein the Senate Chairmanship changed from time to time. The Quinn Amendment based legislative redistricting on a state decennial census taken in the year ending in “I”, whereas the House Cut Amendment returned the state decennial census to the former practice, the year ending in “5”. Legislative redistricting committees were further controlled by a 1978 state constitutional amendment changing the criterion for counting “inhabitants” in the state decennial

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Ani e Seventh Interim Re, House. No. 5900(19' 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 19 census from one of “legal domicile” to the federal criterion of “usual place of residence.” 1 These changes generated many requests to the Bureau by legislative committees and individual legislators for relevant technical information and other research assistance over the past decade. More recently, of course, the Legislative Research Bureau was called upon to “loan” a redistricting-knowledgeable staff member to the present Joint Special Committee on the Redistricting of the General Court and Executive Council, created by the joint order. House, No. 5840 (1985), as amended, 2 and to the recently-revived Senate Special Committee on the Redistricting of the Senate and Executive Council, established by the Senate order, Senate, No. 1712 (1986). 3 Chief Research Analyst James Hugh Powers was again tapped for this task. The former Joint Special Committee, which has limited its concerns to the redistricting of the House of Representatives, is chaired on the part of the House by Representative James T. Brett of Boston, who is Vice Chairman of the Legislative Research Council. Other Council members serving on this Joint Special Committee include Representatives Francis G. Mara of Brockton (House Chairman of the Legislative Research Council), Representative William J. Flynn, Jr., of Hanover, and Representative Sherman W. Saltmarsh, Jr., of Winchester. Its report proposing a redistricting of that chamber, 4 drafted with the assistance of Mr. Powers (except as to its statistical tables and to so much of the document as proposed specific districts), was submitted to the General Court on July 9, 1987, and became the basis of the 1987 House Redistricting Act (c. 341). The Senate Special Committee on the Redistricting of the Senate and Executive Council was chaired by Senator John A. Brennan. Jr., of Middlesex (Assistant Majority Floor Leader), and included in its membership two members of the Legislative Research Council, namely, Senator Anna P. Buckley of Plymouth (Senate Chairman of the Legislative Research Council, and Vice-Chairman of the

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Revived and continued until August 3. 1987, by the Senate order. Senate. No. 1688 (1987); further revived and continued December 30. 1987 by an unnumbered Senate order adopted on November 5. 1987.

'Joint Special Committee on the Redislricting of the General Court and Executive Council. Interim Report Retain Establishment of a New Division ofthe Commonwealth Into One Hundred anil Sixty Representative Districts. House. No, 5875 (1987). July 9 1987.92 pp. 20 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Committee), and Senator Joseph B. Walsh of Suffolk and Norfolk. The Senate Special Committee’s final report, submitted to the Senate on July 8, 1987’ became the basis of the 1987 act redistricting the Senate and Executive Council (c. 305). Since November I, 1986, as before, the Joint Special Committee on the Redistricting of the General Court made the greater use of Legislative Research Bureau staff, relying on it to prepare some 35 letters and memoranda in furtherance of the Committee’s work, as contrasted with 11 such documents prepared on behalf of the Senate Special Committee on the Redistricting of the Senate and Executive Council. Initial drafts of four of the five chapters of the Joint Committee’s report were prepared by Mr. Powers, whereas like assistance was not requested by the Senate Special Committee. There were numerous conferences, in the form of meetings and telephone calls, involving the staff of the Bureau, members and staff of the respective committees, and the State Secretary’s Department. In addition, the Bureau staff responded to redistricting inquiries of individual legislators, local officials, and other parties referred to it by the chairmen and other staff of the two redistricting committees. Finally, the Legislative Research Bureau staff is assisting the legislative leadership, the Attorney General’s Department, and the Joint Special Committee on the Redistricting of the General Court and Executive Council in respect to two lawsuits, now pending before the Federal District Court in Boston, which challenge the 1987 act redistricting the Senate. House of Representatives and Executive Council. In addition, plaintiffs in the these cases, viz.. Black Political 2 State Task Force v. Connolly and Massachusetts Republican Committee v. Connolly. 1 attack expressly or by implication the ordinance enacted recently by the Boston City Council and Mayor redividing that city into districts for the election of city councilors and school committee members. In both cases, plaintiffs allege that the 1985 state decennial census enumeration of inhabitants of Boston, as corrected by the State Decennial Census Commission in House, No. local redistrictings, 5556 (1987), and utilized in these state and contain inaccuracies which produce unconstitutional results. On November General’s staff met with 5 1987, two members of the Attorney Mr.

1965 (1987). of Civil Action No, 87-1886-WD(7/23/87). ■U.S. District Court, District Massachusetts, , of Massachusetts. Civil Action No, 87-195.1-WD (8 17-871. ~, s |)jstnc court. District 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 21

Powers and Robert England of the Bureau staff in a lengthy conference on matters to be considered in the preparation of a defense. Inasmuch as Mr. Powers will be retiring in the near future, the Director of the Bureau has assigned two younger staff members to Mr. Powers for initial training in redistricting matters. They have participated in certain conferences of the two redistricting committees as part of their introduction into this topical field. Joint special committees established by the General Court to propose plans of congressional districts have, for the most part since 1967, relied on their own staff, and have turned to the Legislative Research Bureau with intermittent requests for information on particular points. The exception to this pattern was the Joint Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting established by the joint order, House, No. 3001 (1981), which borrowed staff from the Bureau. That latter committee was chaired by Senator Arthur J. Lewis, Jr., of Suffolk and Norfolk, on the part of the Senate, and by Representative, now Speaker, the Hon. George Keverian, of Everett. A new redivision of the Commonwealth into congressional districts will next be required following the 1990 federal decennial census, and will probably involve the loss of one congressional seat by Massachusetts due to population growth elsewhere in the nation. The new congressional districts must be in place in time for the 1992 state biennial elections. The Bureau staff must be ready to provide assistance to the legislative committees involved in this process, as requested. To illustrate the depth and scope of the Legislative Research Bureau’s efforts on behalf of the redistricting committees, we list as Exhibit A, at the end of this discussion of Bureau Operations, a cumulative index of our activity over the past three years on this single topic. Assistance to Special Commission on the Division of the Department of Mental Health This Special Commission was established by the General Appropriation Act for the Liscal Year 1987 “to investigate and study the proposed division of the department of mental health into a department of mental health and a department of mental retardation and to formulate findings and make recommendations to the General Court on all aspects of such a division, including, but not limited to. the efficient and adequate delivery of services to persons diagnosed 22 HOUSE No. 2000 [January as mentally ill, mentally retarded and those diagnosed as both mentally ill and mentally retarded” (Acts of 1986, c. 206, s. 71). The Special Commission was directed to file an initial report with the Clerks of the two Branches by September 30, 1986, and other interim reports and a final report in like manner no later than July 1, 1988. (Ibid.) On September 17, 1986, Representative James T. Brett, Vice- Chairman of the Council and a member of the Special Commission, requested the assistance of the Legislative Research Bureau in obtaining from Massachusetts state agencies and from other states certain information and materials which would aid the staff of the Special Commission in its work. Our Bureau was not asked to assist otherwise in the preparation of reports of the Special Commission. James Hugh Powers was assigned to this Bureau effort, which straddled the time periods covered by our 32nd and 33rd Annual Reports. In all, the Bureau made seven shipments of statutes, tables of departmental organization, reports and other research materials to Representative Brett between October 7, 1986 and March 16, 1987 as follows: 10/7/86 Letter transmitting materials obtained from the Massa- chusetts Department of Mental Health. 10/30/86 Letter transmitting statutes and other materials received from state agencies and legislative committees oflowa and New York. 11/14/86 Memorandum transmitting information, statutes and other materials received from divers states (not included). II 24/86 Letter transmitting information, statutes and other materials received from the New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. 12 9/86 Letter transmitting materials received from the Massachu- setts Department of Mental Health. 12 11/86 Letter transmitting additional materials received from South Carolina authorities. 16/87 Letter transmitting copy of New York report on mental health services in that state. 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 23

The Special Commission submitted an interim report on October 23, 1986 proposing legislation which, after many revisions, became Acts of 1986, c. 599, signed by the Governor on December 16, 1986. That statute divided the mental health functions of the state between a reorganized State Department of Mental Health (G.L. c. 19) and a new state Department of Mental Retardation (G.L. c. 19B). After March of 1987, the Special Commission made no further requests for assistance from the Legislative Research Bureau because Represent- ative Brett desired that Mr. Powers give his full attention to the working of the Joint Special Committee on Redistricting, of which Representative Brett is House Chairman. Distribution of Reports Of the 400 printed copies of each Council report, about 140 are distributed to selected legislators, the news media and various libraries in the state. The remainder constitutes the reserve from which the Bureau services other legislative needs and fulfills requests for specific reports from agencies and individuals, both within and without the Commonwealth. Requests for printed reports (and other output) originate from (a) the Council’s check list announcements; (b) newspaper articles on Council and Bureau output; and (c) references in bibliographical and special legislative informational services. In the past year, 235 requests were made for copies of 29 Council reports. A total of 261 copies were distributed. Governmental, civic and out-of-state legislative agencies accounted for 121 reports (46.4%) and colleges, universities and public libraries for 74 (28.3%). The balance of reports 66 (25.3%) went to individual citizens and private sources. The report Prisons for Profit (House, No. 6225 of 1986) generated the most requests (120). Ranking second with 31 requests was Judicial Selection in the United S/a/cs (House, No. 5492 of 1986). Index of Special Reports Of valuable aid to legislators, government administrators, political scientists and professional researchers are the data appearing in the reports prepared by the Legislative Research Council, legislative committees, special commissions, state executive agencies and other study groups, at the direction of the General Court. To publicize the availability of this material, the Bureau and State Library in 1966 24 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January joined in the preparation of an index of such reports issued since the turn of the century (House, No. 3838 of 1966). New editions consolidating in a single volume the annotations appearing in the annual supplements were published in 1973 (House, No. 3838) and in 1979 (House, No. 6161). A fourth supplement to House, No. 6161 containing citations to reports filed in the 1983 legislative session was issued in May of 1984. The Bureau plans to update this Index with a new edition in 1988. Governmental Action Publications During the course of the year, the Bureau receives many “public service” publications which describe various developments on the governmental scene. When articles contain data on certain executive, legislative or judicial action in which some members of the General Court have a special interest, photocopies are sent to the respective members. For example, articles proposing English as the official language of the United States, taken from different publications, have been forwarded to legislators who have filed such proposals. Numerous excerpts are also taken from the Education Commission of States’ publications, the monthly bulletin of the Motor Vehicle Administrators Association, the Status Report of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and National Civic Review. The National Conference of State Legislatures and the Council of State Governments mail many of their publications directly to state legislators. These documents inform the members of current legislative, governmental and related developments throughout the nation, and our legislators frequently request the Bureau to obtain additional information on these matters. National Conference of State Legislatures From July 27 through 31, 1987, two members of the Council and attended the Thirteenth Annual two staff persons from the Bureau Meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Other Activities 1987, a major conference on Public From March 18 through 20, by the Council of State and Private Partnerships, sponsored State Purchasing Officials Governments, the National Association of Boston, attracting a nationwide and other public groups, was held in 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 25

group of conferees. Charles R. Ring, Senior Research Analyst on the Bureau staff, participated as a member of a panel thataddressed issues concerning privately run prisons and the role of prison industries. Also participating on other panels were Representatives Kevin Blanchette, Marilyn Travinski and W. Paul White. Mr. Ring has also been interviewed by both the print and broadcast media, including NBC radio in New York.

EXHIBIT A

CUMULATIVE INDEX OF LETTERS, MEMORANDA AND OTHER TEXTS PREPARED ON BEHALF OF LEGISLATIVE RE DISTRICTING COMMITTEES, 1985-87

Senate Special Committee on Reclistricting of the Senate and Executive Council

3/10/86 Letter to Sen. Patricia McGovern. Chairperson, Senate Committee on Ways and Means, re her proposal for a constitutional amendment to abolish the state decennial census (S. 1693 of 1986). 7 pp. 3/21/86 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Assistant Senate Majority Floor Leader, forwarding 11 enclosures of materials re legislative redistricting requested by him. 2 pp., plus enclosures. 4/1/86 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Assistant Senate Majority Leader and Chairperson of the Senate Special Committee, enclosing articles from the National Civic Review re judicial case law of gerrymandering. 1 p., plus enclosures. 4/2/86 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Committee Chairman, re Legislative Research Bureau assistance to his committee. 4 pp. 4/10/86 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Committee Chairman. enclosing request draft of Senate order seeking advisory opinion of Supreme Judicial Court re census status of special enumeration of 1986 required by Acts of 1985, c. 165, s. I, 1 p., plus 3 pp. enclosure. 26 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

6/2/86 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Committee Chairman, (a) enclosing copy of State Government article re “communities of interest” in state legislative redistricting (Fall 1985), and (b) reporting on extent of local planning board responses to Legislative Research Bureau letter of 1/8/86. I p., plus enclosure. 1/8/87 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Committee Chairman, transmitting Legislative Research Bureau memorandum re conferences with Mr. David Sullivan, Esq., Counsel to State Secretary (12/9/86) and Dr. Stephen P. Coelen, Director, MISER (12/16/86) re dispute over 1985 census count. Ip., plus memorandum of 10 pp. 1/23/87 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Committee Chairman, forwarding Legislative Research Bureau memorandum re telephone conference with Dr. Stephen P. Coelen, Director, MISER, re Boston census dispute. Ip., plus memorandum of 1/23/87, 3 pp. 2/20/87 Letter to Ms. Marijo McCarthy, Special Counsel to Committee, forwarding requested copy of Legislative Research Bureau letter of 7/26/83 to U.S. Census Bureau. 1 p., plus enclosure. 2/23/87 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Committee Chairman, forwarding copy of Legislative Research Bureau letter of 7/26/83 to U.S. Census Bureau, and discussing problem of population variations of executive council districts from that body’s apportionment norm. 4 pp., plus enclosures. 3/30/87 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Committee Chairman, enclosing copies of two articles from National Civic Review re census litigation. I p., plus enclosures. Chairman, 4/15/87 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Committee enclosing article by Sen. E.P. Kirby of Plymouth re history of Barnstable, Bristol and Plymouth Counties. Letter also recounted history of island counties. 2 pp., plus enclosures. 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 27

4/22/87 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Committee Chairman, enclosing copy of Boston Globe magazine article on political turmoil in Roxbury. 1 p., plus enclosure. 5/26/87 Letter to Mr. Joseph Bogan, Committee staff, enclosing copies of certain maps and other historical materials re Boston and its metropolitan area. 2 pp., plus enclosures. 7/28/87 Letter to Hon. William M. Bulger, Senate President, transmitting text of 153-page complaint in Mass, legislative redistricting case of Black Political Task Force v. Connolly { 1987). I p., plus enclosure. 7/28/87 Letter to Sen. J.A. Brennan, Jr., Committee Chairman, transmitting text of 153-page complaint in Mass, legislative redistricting case of Black Political Task Force v. Connolly. (1987). 1 p., plus enclosure. 8/11/87 Letter to Senator John A. Brennan, Assistant Senate Majority Leader, re Mass, legislative redistricting case of Black Political Task Force et al. v. Connolly, et al. 2 pp.

Joint Special Committee on Redistricting ofthe General Court and Executive Council 3/25/85 Letter to Mr. John G. Keane, Director, U.S. Census Bureau, re Massachusetts Congressional and state legislative redistricting practices. 4 pp. 3/27/85 Letter to Mr. William Murray, Mass. State Data Center, re U.S. Census Bureau Block Boundary Program under P.L. 94-171 (1957). 2 pp. 3/28/85 Letter to Ms. Cathy Talbert, Data User Services Division, U.S. Census Bureau, forwarding copies of requested Mass, constitutional and statutory provisions re legislative redistricting and local precinct and ward revision. 1 p., plus enclosures. 4/9/85 Draft text of Committee letter to members of General Court re redistricting. 1 p., plus 2 pp. enclosures. 5/16/85 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re time frame of state census and legislative redistricting process. Ip., plus 4 pp. table. No. 2000 [January 28 HOUSE Senate President, re 5/20/85 Letter to Hon. W.M. Bulger, time frame of state census and state legislative redistricting process. 3 pp. 5/20/85 Letter to Mr. Alan J. Rom, Esq., Lawyers’Committee for Civil Rights, transmitting copies of S. 2187 (1985) and H. 5815 (1985) as requested, and thanking him for court case decisions he furnished re redistricting. 1 p., plus bills. 6/3/85 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re H. 6091 (1985), which would delay the reporting of the 1985 state decennial census and local precinct and ward revision based thereon. 3 pp., plus enclosures. 6/4/85 Letter to Mrs. Alicia M.P. Baez, R.N., of Framingham, requesting information re Hispanic Community in said town, and outlining state legislative redistricting process. 2 pp. 7/1/85 Letter to Rep. J.T. Brett, House Chairman, re NCSL panel meeting on redistricting in Seattle, WA, on August 5, 1985. 1 p., plus enclosures. 7/2/85 Letter to Rep. J.A. Businger, House Chairman, Joint Committee on Election Laws, re court opinions pertaining to state and local legislative redistricting, 3 pp., plus enclosures listed in letter. 7/12/85 Letter to Mr. Warren T. Brookes of Virginia, newspaper columnist, re creation of Joint Legislative Redistricting Committee in Massachusetts in 1985 and problems it faced. 7/16/85 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re status of state legislative redistricting litigation in California and Indiana. 2 pp. 10/17/85 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re U.S. Census Bureau’s P.L. 94-171 Program. 2 pp., plus enclosures. 10/21/85 Letter to Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau requesting report on redistricting desired by House Chairman. I p. 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 29

12/17/85 General letter to City and Town Clerks, and City Election Commissions of Massachusetts, requesting official maps of their local wards and precincts as revised per the 1985 state decennial census. Sent at request of House Chairman. 2 pp. (“follow up” letters sent to nonrespondents on 2/6/86, 3/19/86, 4/16/86.) 12 20 85 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re Legislative Research Bureau programs in collecting precinct and ward maps of cities and towns. 3 pp. plus 2 pp. enclosures. 1/8/86 General letter to Massachusetts City and Town Planning Boards requesting “community of interest” information, per instructions of House Chairman. 2 pp. (“follow up” letter to nonrespondents on 5/6/86.) 1/13/86 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re time frame used by Joint Special Committee on Redistricting of the General Court and Executive Council in 1975-77 in holding public hearings and preparing its report (H. 5900 of 1977). 1 p., plus 3 pp. enclosures. I, 13/86 Letter to Hon. W, M. Bulger, Senate President, re general letters sent to city and town authorities on behalf of Joint Special Committee re precinct and ward maps and “community of interest” information. ! p., plus enclosed copies of said general letters. 1/16/86 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re conversa- tion with Bridgewater Town Clerk concerning materials requested on Committee’s behalf, and desire of Bridge- water officials that their town not be divided between legislative districts. 2 pp. 2/4/86 Letter to Mrs. Madelyn McKie, Executive Secretary, Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards, requesting her help in getting local planning boards to answer Legislative Research Bureau request for “community of interest” information. 1 p., plus enclosure (LRB letter of 1 8/86). 2/7/86 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett re Legislative Research Bureau progress in collecting precinct and ward maps of cities and towns. 1 p., plus 2 pp. enclosure. 30 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

21 14/86 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re Legislative Research Bureau progress in collecting precinct and ward maps of cities and towns. 2 pp. 3/3/86 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re U.S. Supreme Court opinion regarding Nantucket Sound in U.S. v. Maine, 54 LW 4173 (1986). 2 pp., plus copy of court opinion 3 1 14/86 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re: (1) Indiana legislative redistricting case of Bandemer v. Davis, 663 F. Supp. 1479 (1984); (2) Legislative Research Bureau progress in collecting maps of precincts and wards ofcities and towns. 2 pp., plus enclosures. 4/9/86 Letter to Mrs. Madelyn A. McKie, Exec. Secy., Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards, thanking her for her further assistance in urging local planning boards to reply to the Legislative Research Bureau “community of interest” letter of 1/8/86. 4/28/86 Memorandum, “Check List for Legislative Redistricting,” and list of cities and towns which had not submitted maps of their precincts and wards as of this date. 2 pp. (Rough memorandum for use of Committee staff). 5/2/86 Letter to State Commissioner of Public Works inquiring as to the availability of maps of certain small towns. 2 pp. 5/15/86 Letter to Mrs. Madelyn A. McKie, Exec. Secy., Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards, re “community of interest” and gerrymandering in state legislative redistricting; and listing local planning boards which had answered the Legislative Research Bureau letter to them of 1/8/86. 4pp. 6/2/86 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, (a) enclosing copy of State Government articles on “community of interest” (Fall 1985), and (b) reporting on extent of local planning board responses to Legislative Research Bureau letter of 1/8/86. I p.. plus enclosure. 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 31

6 19 86 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, forwarding Legislative Research Bureau memorandum re Massachu- setts state legislative redistricting case of MacGovern v. Connolly, U.S. District Court (D-Mass). I p., plus memorandum of 12 pp., dated 6/11/86. 7/7/86 Memorandum re new ethnic map of Boston, requested of Boston Redevelopment Authority per instructions of House Chairman. I p. 8 11/86 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re status and finances of Joint Special Committee. 1 p., plus enclosure. 8 13/86 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re Lamson v. Secretary, 341 Mass. 264 (1960) and U.S. v. Maine, 54 LW 4173 (1986) re state vs federal waters. The marine boundaries of Massachusetts and “contiguity by water.” 1 p., plus enclosed texts of above court opinions. 8/13/86 Letter to Mr. Gary Jones, Research Director, House Committee on Counties, and Chief of Staff, Joint Special Committee on Redistricting, forwarding requested copy of U.S. Supreme Court opinion in U.S. v. Maine, 54 LW 4173 (1986), Slip Opinion No. 35 (1986). I p„ plus enclosure. 9/17/86 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, enclosing newsclips re demographic changes in western suburbs of Boston. I p., plus enclosures. 10/16/86 General letter to Massachusetts City and Town Clerks requesting current copies of their municipal charters. 2 pp. (“follow up” letter sent to nonrespondents 5/19/87). 12/ I 86 Draft of letter, requested by House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, to State Secretary, requesting information re latter’s audit of 1985 census count by City of Boston. 1 p. (Rough) 12/3/86 List of redistricting opinions of U.S. Supreme Court, 1977-86. 3 pp. 12/24/86 Legislative Research Bureau memorandum re updating of Legislative Research Bureau collection of Massachusetts city and town charters. (Desired in connection with legislative redistricting assignments of Bureau staff). 1 p. 2000 [January 32 HOUSE No. Director, Department 1/2/87 Letter to Mr. Michael Rosenberg, of Community Development, City of Cambridge, requesting explanation of drop in City’s population between 1975 and 1985 state decennial censuses. 3 pp. 2/23/87 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, forwarding copy of Legislative Research Bureau letter of 7/26/83 to U.S. Census Bureau, and discussing problem of population variations of executive council districts from that body’s apportionment norm. 4 pp., plus enclosure. 3/4/87 Legislative Research Bureau memorandum re State Decennial Census Commission meeting of 2/26/87. 3/30/87 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re regional hearings held in 1977 by 1972-77 Joint Special Committee on Redistricting. 2 pp. 3/30/87 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, enclosing copies of two articles from National Civic Review re census litigation. 1 p., plus enclosures. 4/15/87 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, enclosing article by Sen. E. P. Kirby of Plymouth re history of Barnstable, Bristol, and Plymouth Counties. Letter also recounted history of island counties. 2 pp., plus enclosures. 4/16/87 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, enclosing copies of newspaper stories re proposed City of Mandela, and precinct revision in Town of Westwood, 1 p., plus enclosures. 4/22/87 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, enclosing copy of Boston Globe magazine article on political turmoil in Roxbury. I p., plus enclosure. 4/23/87 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re public hearing schedule of Senate Special Committee on Redistricting of the Senate and Executive Council, and re U S. District Court opinion in MacGovern v. Connolly, 637 F. Supp. 111 (1986). 2 pp., plus enclosures. for Special 5/5/87 Preliminary draft of agenda meeting of Joint Committee, prepared per instructions of House Chair- man. 1 p. 1988J HOUSE No. 2000 33

5/7/87 Redistricting Background Notes (Outline), 4 pp. 5/11/87 Letter to Mr. Barry White, Counsel to State Decennial Census Commission, re his inquiry as to any submissions of materials which the Legislative Research Bureau might wish to make re Boston census dispute. 2 pp. 5/12/87 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, forwarding requested information re Massachusetts Bth Congres- sional District. 1 p., plus enclosure. 5/26/87 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, re court opinions as to the frequency ofredistricting state and local legislative bodies, and forwarding copies of certain newspaper stories. 2 pp., plus enclosures. 5/26/87 Letter to Mr. David Sullivan, Counsel to the State Secretary, re problems of census authorities in West Germany. I p.. plus enclosure. 5/28/87 Memorandum re Criteria for Redistricting of the House of Representatives, prepared for meeting of Joint Special Committee. 16 pp. 5/28/87 Outline of House Redistricting Report of Joint Special Committee, prepared for Committee meeting, per instructions of House Chairman. 3 pp. 6/12/87 Letter to Mr. Gary Jones, Chief of Staff of Joint Special Committee, re 1985 census count in Cambridge. 1 p., plus enclosures. 6/25/87 Legislative Research Bureau memorandum re Represen- tation and Voting Rights of Institutional Inhabitants and Persons Residing on Military Bases in the Commonwealth under Acts of 1987, c. 115. 3 pp., plus enclosure. 6/26/87 Letter to Rep. C.F. Flaherty, House Majority Leader, re 1985 state decennial census count reported by City of Cambridge. 1 p., plus enclosures. 6/29/87 Letter to Hon. George Keverian, House Speaker, re treatment of Town of Dedham in past redistricting of House of Representatives. 2 pp. 2000 [January 34 HOUSE No.

dressing,” cc. 1-IV, and Appendix A 6 1 30/87 Draft text of “salad on Redistricting turned and of Report of Joint Committee by House 7/7/87 over to House Clerk after review Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett (H. 5875 of 1987). 80 pp. typed. 2/87 Letter to Mr. David Sullivan, Counsel, Dept, of the State Secretary, re U.S. Census Bureau’s P.L. 94-171 Program. 1 p., plus enclosure. 7/13/87 Letter to House Chairman, Rep. J.T. Brett, enclosing requested draft of order to extend Joint Special Committee to December 31, 1990. 2 pp., plus enclosure. 7/16/87 Letter to Rep. A. S. Natsios re status of state legislative redistricting litigation in California and Indiana. 2 pp. 7/23/87 Letter to Mr. Gary Jones, Chief of Staff, Joint Special Committee, re precinct revision in Town of Needham. I p., plus enclosures. 7/24/87 Letter to Mr. William P. Murray, State Data Center, re his request that the Legislative Research Bureau apply for certain U.S. Census Bureau tapes “on behalf of the Legislature.” 2 pp., plus attachment. 7/28/87 Letter to Rep. J. T. Brett, House Chairman, transmitting text of 153 page complaint in Mass. Legislative redistricting case of Black Political Task Force v. Connolly (1987). 1 p., plus enclosure. 7/28/87 Letter to Hon. George Keverian, Speaker of the House of Representative, transmitting the text of the 153-page complaint in the Mass, legislative redistricting case of Black Political Task Force v. Connolly (1987). 1 p., plus enclosure.

8/3/87 Letter to Assistant Attorney General Paul Lazour, Director of Regional Operations and Chief of the Elections Division. Department of the Attorney General, requesting that his Department provide the Legislative Research Bureau with documentation re Black Political redistricting Task Force v. Connolly for use of legislative committees. 2 pp. 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 35

11/6/87 Letter to Paul A. Lazour, Esq., Assistant Attorney General, and Chief of the Elections Division, Department of the Attorney General, transmitting (a) a copy of the LRC report The Form of Government in Large Towns, H. 5302 (1971), and (b) a complete list of special acts re the Town of Needham, 1710-1987. 1 p., plus enclosures. 11/6/87 Letter to Paul A. Lazour, Assistant Attorney General, and Chief of Elections Division, Department of the Attorney General, transmitting copies of LRB file materials on legislative redistricting. 1 p., plus enclosures. 36 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

APPENDIX A. CUMULATIVE LIST OF IMPORTANT RESEARCH COUNCIL REPORTS.

(Includes all major reports since 1955 and substantive minor reports since 1967. * Asterisked items are available on loan only.) NOTE; This listing groups similar printed, mimeographed, and typed Council reports under the following major headlines in chrono- logical order of preparation. The titles of all printed reports appear in capital letters

Administrative Management Housing, Planning & Urban Agriculture & Natural Resources Affairs Apportionment Human Services Constitutional Judiciary and Legal Profession Economics, Insurance & Business Labor and Professions Education Law Enforcement Elections Legislature General Reference Motor Vehicles & Government-Countv Transportation Government-Local (City & Town) Public Employment Government-Municipal Home Rule Public Finance & Taxation Government-State Public Works Health & Hospitals Recreation

A dministralive Management *OPEN MEETINGS OF STATE AND LOCAL BOARDS AND COM- MISSIONS. (H. 2690; 2/4/57; 104 pp. printed.) EXCERPTS FROM EXTENDED COUNCIL REPORT, TITLED: “THE PRINTING ANDSALEOFSTATE DOCUMENTS."(H. 2696:3 18/ 59; 29 pp. printed.) Legislative review of administrative agency regulations. (3/25/60; 2 pp. typed; 3/28/63; 6 pp. typed; 6/11/68; 19 pp, mimeo; 1/23/75; 2 pp. typed; 8/22/75; 2 pp. typed & end.; 10/25/76; I p. typed & end.; I/ 26/77; 2 pp. typed; 8/11/77; I p. typed and end.; 10/18/78; 5 pp. typed & end.) Reorganization of Department of Public Works. (10/9/63; 32 pp. mimeo.) Powers ol Mass. Executive (Gov.) Council. (4/2/62; 10 pp. mimeo; 4/16/ 64; 55 pp. mimeo; 2/15/74; 1 p. typed & end.) 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 37

EXECUTIVE BRANCH REORGANIZATION. (S. 948; 2/8 65; 103 pp printed.) EXTENSION OF TIME FOR GUBERNATORIAL ACTIONS ON BILLS AND RESOLVES. (S. 667; 1/31/66; 17 pp. printed.) Mass, income tax administration. (4/3/67; 2 pp. typed.) Mass, racial imbalance law. (7/24 67; 1 p. typed & end.) Centralized authority for data processing system. (7/1 68; 6 pp, mimeo.) Validation of acts of notaries. (I /13 69; Ip. typed.) State personal property inventory practices. (4 29 69; I p. typed & end.) Budget process. (9 12 69; 2 pp. typed.) Executive reorganization, (10/7/69; 2 pp. typed &encl.; 3/4/75; 1 p. typed & end.) Selected aspects of Mass. Health, Welfare and Retirement Trust Fund administration, (8/4/70; 3 pp. typed.) Appointment of probation officers. (3/2 71; 1 p. typed & end.) California Executive Branch reorganization. (3/29 71; 5 pp. typed.) Appointive powers of police and fire chiefs. (6/8 71; I p. typed & end.) DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE EIEUTENAN I GOVERNOR. (S 1224; 12 29 71; 53 pp. printed.) Suspension of statutes or rules. (2 18 72; I p. typed.) State purchase of recycled paper. (2 18/72; 3 pp. typed; II 23 83; I p typed.) Commemoration ol’ public figures. (5 4 72; I p. typed.) Mass, municipalities with purchasing ;igents. (5/ 24, 72; 2 pp. mimeo.) A STANDARD ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACE FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. (H. 6009; 131 73; 82 pp. printed.) Workload of Housing Appeals Committee. (11/8 73; 3 pp. typed.) NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION OF PUBLIC NOTICES AND LEGAI ADVERTISEMENTS. (H. 5341; 2 13 74; 82 pp. printed.) A STATE OMBUDSMAN. (H. 5392; I 22 75; 81 pp. printed.) Mass. Energy Policy Office. (4/ 16/75; 2 pp. typed & end.) Human service programs conflict with federal regulations. (9/18 75; 2pp typed.) The Architectural Barriers Board. (6/21/76; I p. typed.) Selection of Comptrollers. (12/ 14, 77; 2 pp. typed & end.) Statutory authority of the Mass. Historical Commission. (3/13/78; I p typed & end.) 2000 38 HOUSE No. [January

A CENTRALIZED ELECTIONS ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM. (H 5759; 5 3 78; 81 pp. printed.) Preservation of campaign finance records. (6/26/78; I p. typed.) Open textbook adoption system. (7/17/79; 1 p. typed & questionnaire.) FISCAL IMPACT OF STATE ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS (H. 5954; 2 13 80; 50 pp. printed.) Financial impact of administrative regulations. (4/27/80; 2 pp. typed.) GUBERNATORIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS. (H. 6557; 4/3/81; 164 pp. printed.) Confirmation of executive nominations. (7< 28 81; 2 pp. typed.) Mass, state boards with community input for nominations. (5/11/82; 2 pp, typed.) Legislative veto. (10 12/82; 2 pp. typed and end.; 10/14-82; 2 pp. typed and end.; 4 15, 86; 3 pp. typed.) States' practices re settlement of delinquent personal income taxes. (1/25 83; I p. typed & 4 pp. table.) Appointments by “lame duck” mayor. (8/26/83; I p. typed & end.) Gubernatorial executive orders. (1/27/84; 3 pp. typed.) Single agency responsibility for job training programs. (4/6/84; 5 pp, typed.) Questions re regulation of time-sharing. (6 13 84; 2 pp. typed & end.) Powers of public authorities. (5/14/85; I p. typed & ends.) Authorization to operate public hospitals on a revolving fund. (11/15/85; 3 pp. typed.) "Sunset I aws”; executive branch reorganization, (7 24 87. 7 pp. typed.)

Agriculture and Natural Resources RIGHTS It) SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE WAFER IN MASS. (S 695; 2 13 57; 128 pp. printed.) M ATE FICENSING andcon frolofthe use of I idi lands (H. 2627; 1 26 59; 42 pp. printed.) AIR POl LUTION IN THE METROPOLITAN BOSTON AREA. (S 495; 2 5 60: 52 pp. printed.) R | MOVAL. ill LING AND DREDGING CERTAIN COASTAL AREAS. (S. 887; 12/30/64; 31 pp. printed.) HARBOR REGULATIONS. (S. 1234; I I 15/65; 119 pp. printed.) WAFER SHORTAGE AND INDUSTRIAL WATER USE AND i REUSE. (S. 930; 4 27/66; 163 pp. printed.) 19881 HOUSE No. 2000 39

* A MASSACHUSETTS FISHING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. ( H. 4638; 12/27/66; 60 pp. printed.) HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION AND ABANDONED VEHICLES. (S 1239; 3/29/67; 128 pp. printed.) MIGRATORY LABOR. (S. 1303; 5/31/67; 53 pp. printed.) Outdoor advertising regulation in Massachusetts. (6/19/67; 2 pp. typed.) Mass, outdoor advertising licenses and permits issued 1944-66. (7/28 67, I p. typed.) Regulation of billboards along federally-aided highways. (10/9/67; 5 pp typed.) Shellfish purification costs. (2, 6 68; I p. typed & end.; 4 22 68; 1 p mimeo.) Protection of wetlands and beaches. (7/ 1 1 /68; 2 pp. typed.) State programs re thoroughbred horsebreeding. (2/24/69; 11 pp. typed & ends.) Labeling of imported fish. (6/9/69; I p. typed & end.) ASSESSMENT OF AGRICULTURAL LAND (H. 5107; 2/20/70; 40 pp printed.)

State and federal air and water pollution legislation - 1965-70. (8/26 70; 9 pp. mimeo.) Safety devices for farm tractors. (10/8/70; I p. typed & end.) THE PRESERVATION OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. (H 5301; 4/7/71; 107 pp. printed.) Fiscal aid for acquisition of park land. (1/27/72; 2 pp. typed & end.) State purchase of recycled paper. (2/18/72; 3 pp. typed & end.; I I 23/83; 1 p. typed.) Coastal land conservation. (3/30 72; 2 pp. typed & end.) State land use management. (9, 14 72; 5 pp. typed.) Mass, energy crisis. (6 26 73; 2 pp. typed & end.) Randolph-Holbrook water supply. (10/25/73; 3 pp. typed; 2 I I 75; 2 pp typed.) Indian land holding. (7 17/74; 3 pp. typed & end.; 9 20 74; 2 pp. typed

& end.) Environmental planning and management. (8 22 74; 8 pp. questionnaire.) Mass, and selected states’energy related laws. (9 13 74; I p. typed & end 10, 10/74; 1 p. typed & end.) Florida solar energy legislation. (2/25/75; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass. Energy Policy Office. (4/18/75; 2 pp. typed & end.) 40 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

States’ fuel adjustment charges, (4/ 18/75; 7 pp. typed.) p. typed & end.) Oregon aerosol spray ban law. (8/6/75; I Motor vehicle emission controls programs. (11/ 10/76; 2 pp. typed & end. 4 27; 77; 4 pp. typed & end.; 6/20/77; 1 p. typed & end.) Michigan rules re transportation of hazardous substances. (4/21/77; I p typed & end.) Solar energy statutes and legislation. (8/22/77; I p. typed & end.) STATE SEVERANCE TAXES. (H. 5850; 4/21/78; 374 pp. printed.) Anti-litter legislation. (5/18, 19, 31; 7/3, 4; and 10/12/78; all I p. typed & end.; 3/3, 8/20, and 10/24/80; all Ip. typed & end.; 3/23/81; 2 pp. typed.) Conservation Commissions in Mass. (6/2/78; I p. typed.) Future status of Brockton water supply. (8/3/78; 2 pp. typed.) Use of “Gasohol" in motor vehicles. (1/8/79; 1 p. typed & end.) Flazardous waste emergencies. (3/22/79; I p. typed.) Hazardous wastes and water supplies. (5/30/79; 2 pp. typed & end.) Methods of hazardous waste disposal. (6/6/79; 2 pp. typed & end.) Alien ownership of Mass, farm land. (10/15/79; I p. typed & end.; 10 16, 79; I p. typed & end.; 12/19/79; I p. typed & end.; 1/21/80; I p. typed & end.) The conservation restriction formula of the Town of Dennis. (11/8/79; 13 pp. mimeo.) Mass, law re riparian rights on waterways, (6/5/81; 2 pp. typed.) California aircraft noise standards. (6/9/81; 3 pp. typed & end.) Landfill regulation. (8/13/81; I p. typed <& end.) Food donations to non-profit organizations. (5/10/82; I p. typed & end.) Legislative intent of agricultural/horticultural land assessment statute. (7 16/82; I p. typed.) Selected states’statutory citations re beekeepers. (10/15/82; I p. typed.) 1982 Farmland Preservation proposals. (12/21 /82; Ip. typed & end.) “Superfund” statute. (12/6/83; I p. typed & end.; 9/11/84; 2 pp. typed & questionnaire.) Farmland Preservation. (5/29/85; I p. typed & end.) Status of Needham town water lands. (6/12/85; 3 pp. typed.) Mass. Pesticide Board decision to ban chlordane, (2/13/87; 2 pp. typed & 18 pp. reference documents.) 1988) HOUSE - No. 2000 41

Apportionment Reapportionment of the General Court, (4 IX 62; I p. typed.) Court suit rc Mass, legislative apportionment, (4/25 63; 1 p. typed.) One-man, one-vote court decision re apportionment. (12/3 64; II pp mimeo.)

* STATE AND LOCAL APPORTIONMENTS. (S. 771; 1 26 66; 122 pp printed.) Mass, legislative apportionment. (6 28, 66; 2 pp. typed; 3/ 10 72; 3 pp typed; 10 25 72; 4 pp. typed; I 3 74; 14 pp. questionnaire: 6 7 74; pp. typed.) Federal census and state-local apportionment. (2 7 67; 3 pp. questionnaire. ) U.S. District Court opinions rc Mass, congressional districts. (2 17 67; 10 pp. mimeo & end.) Mass, developments rc“Dirksen Amendment."(4 3 67; 3 pp. Tv ped & end.) Comparison ol H. 3579 and S. I 167 rc legislative apportionment. (5 15 67; 5 pp. mimeo & end.) Four U.S. court opinions rc state legislative apportionment. (5 18 67; 8 pp. mimeo.) Mass. Supreme Court opinion rc legislative apportionment. (10 31 67 pp. mimeo.) Judicial criteria rc apportionment ol Mass. House ol Representatives. (12 I 67; 5 pp. Tv ped.) Status ol legislative apportionment in Massachusetts, (4 4 68; 3 pp. typed & end.) U.S. District Court decisions rc redistricting City ol New Bedford. (4 17 68; 2 pp. typed.) Mass. Supreme Court decision re House apportionment. (5 21 68; 4 pp mimeo.) Mass. Supreme Court decision rc House membership. (5/31 68; 3 pp mimeo.) States' population ratio per state representative. (6/6 68; I p. mimeo.) City Council authority for ward changes. (6/26 68; 2 pp. typed.) Mass. Supreme Court decision re multi-member state legislative districts in Boston, (ID 30/68; 5 pp. mimeo.) Reapportioning Quincy city wards. (I 23, 69; 3 pp. typed.) CHANGING 1 HI LFGISLA I IVF ARBOR 1 lONMFN 1 PROCEDURE AND REDUCING I HE SIZE OF I HI HOUSE OF REPRI SEN I A FIVES. (H. 5309; 4 16/69; 209 pp. printed. See also H. 7020 of 197/ below.) 42 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Ballot questions and malapportioncd legislatures. (12 16/69; 3 pp. typed & end.) Flexible si/c for stale legislative bodies. (11/19/70; 2 pp. typed.) One-man, one-vote application to regional school committees. (12/20/72; 3 pp. typed. See also H. 4411 of 1976, below.) CHANGING THE SIZE OE THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE CENSUS BASIS OF LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING. (H. 7020; 5 20 73; 403 pp. printed.) State legislative apportionment commissions. (7/19/73; 4 pp. typed.) Implementing census provisions of “House Cut” proposal. (1/30/74; 6 pp. typed; 12 10 74; II pp. mimco.) Estimated cost re 1975 census under “House Cut" proposal. (6/28/74; 21 pp. mimeo.) Possible changes in legislative redistricting requirements. (5/12/75; 3 pp. typed.) Federal court decisions re political subdivisions in state legislative redistricting. (12/3/76; 3 pp. typed & end.) Island County representation in the Massachusetts GeneralCourt. (12/28 76; 36 pp. mimeo; See also H. 5900 of 1977. Appendix F.) Local government precinct changes and legislative redistricting. (4/19/77; 3 pp. typed.) Congressional redistricting changes. (6/8/77; 3 pp. typed.) Non-voting island legislative delegates. (10/14/77; 2 pp. typed.) Apportionment, compensation and delegates in state legislatures. (12/6/ 77; 7 pp. typed.) Federal court order in Hawaii redistriding case ol 1964, (7 9/80; 2 pp. typed.) Nonvoting territorial delegates in Congress. (12/10/81; 3 pp. typed.) Fall River redistiieting. (2 19 82; 3 pp. typed.) Mass. Congressional districts. (3/12 82; 2 pp. typed.) of Number of precincts in Mass. Congressional, State Senate and House Representatives districts. (8 31 82; 8 pp. typed.) U.S. census and reapportionment. (10/ 12/82; Ip. typed and questionnaire.) Impact of U.S. Supreme Court decision on Mass. Congressional districts. (7 26 83; 3 pp. mimeo.) Legislative redistricting and the federal census criteria. (5/8/84; 6 pp. typed.) (9/10/84; 5 pp. Mass, state census and ethnic populations. typed.) legislative redistricting. (11/20/84; 4 pp. Use of federal census for state typed.) 19881 HOUSE No. 2000 43

Enforcement of legal standards re municipal wards and precincts. (1/22 85; 7 pp. typed.) Background and administration of Mass, mid-decade census. (2/13/85; 12 pp. typed.) 1985 state census and legislative redistricting. (5 16/85; 5 pp. typed.) Implications of U.S. District Court opinion in Bandemer v. Davis. (7/12 85; 3 pp. typed.) "Registered voters” v. “Inhabitants” as basis of apportionment in determining districts for elective offices. (3/9/87; 3 pp. typed.)

Constitutional

SUCCESSION AND CONTINUITY IN STATE AND COUNTY GOV- ERNMENT. (S. 520; 2/25/59; 37 pp. printed.) LEGAL HOLIDAYS AND THEIR OBSERVANCE. (S. 525; 2/24/60; 69 pp. printed.) MUNICIPAL HOME RULE. (S. 580; 3/12/61; 160 pp. printed; S. 950; 3/10/65; 135 pp. printed.) Mass. "Sunday Law”. (3/16/62; 4 pp. typed; 4/ 12/62; 4 pp. typed; 6/6, 7 24 and 7 30/62; 4 pp. typed; 1/28 66; 2 pp. typed; 2/15 77; lolder of material.) Powers of Mass. Executive (Gov.) Council. (4/2/62; 10 pp. mimeo; 4/16 64; 57 pp. mimeo; 2/15/74; 1 p. typed & end.) Home rule re public education. (6/12/64; 2 pp. typed & end; 4/30/68; 6 pp. mimeo.) One-man, one-vote court decision and reapportionment. (12 3 64; 11 pp mimeo.) INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF CLUES AND TOWNS. (S. 947; 2 3/ 65; 74 pp. printed.) JOINT ELECTION OF GOVERNOR AND LT. GOVERNOR. (S. 949; 3 3 65; 3 I pp. printed.) STATE AND LOCAL APPORTIONMENTS. (S. 771; 1 26 66; 122 pp printed.) EXTENSION OF LIME FOR GUBERNATORIAL ACT lON ON BILLS AND RESOLVES. (S. 677; I 31 66; 17 pp. printed.) FOUR-YEAR TERM FOR LEGISLATORS. (S. 684; 2 23 66; 27 pp printed.) SHORTENED VOTER RESIDENCE REQUIREMENTS. (S. 823; 3 9 66; 39 pp. printed.) 44 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION PROCEDURES. (S. 845; 3/8/66; 70 pp. printed.) DETERMINATION OE GUBERNATORIAL DISABILITY. (S. 1145;2 I 67; 31 pp. printed.) VOTING BY PAUPERS. (S. 1103; 2/8*67; 26 pp. printed.) RECESSES OF THE GENERAL COURT. (H. 4558; 2/28/68; 19 pp printed.) LOWER VOTING AGES. (S. 997; 3 1.3/68; 42 pp. printed.) Proposed constitutional amendment re special Boston legislation. (4/15, 68; 2 pp. typed.) Devolution of powers” features of home rule in Mass. (6/26/68; 14 pp, mimeo.) Hawaiian popular constitutional convention. (8/21/68; 2 pp. typed, 12/2 68; I p. typed & end.) Suggested changes in Home Rule Amendment. (10/30/68; 18 pp. mimeo; 5 3, 71; 22 pp. mimeo. See also S. 1455 of 1972, below.) Constitutional revision commission expenditures, 1963-67. (1/17/69; 1 p. typed.) VACANCIES IN CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICES. (H. 4814; 2/26 69; 28 pp. printed.) CHANGING THE LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT PROCEDURE AND REDUCING THE SIZE OFTHE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES. (H, 5309; 4/ 16/69; 209 pp. printed. See also H. 7020 of 1973, below.) Mass. Supreme Court opinion re joint constitutional convention. (5 12 69; 2 pp. mimeo.) CLASSIFICATION AND ASSESSMEN T OF REAL PROPERTY. (H 5323; 5/21/69; 49 pp. printed.) MANDATORY RETIREMENT OF JUDGES AT AGE 70. (H. 5108; 2 24/70; 34 pp. printed.) THE PAYMENT OF TEACHERS’ SALARIES IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS. (H. 5368; 4/20/70; 136 pp. printed.) State-initiated amendments to federal constitution. (5/12/70; 15 pp mimeo.) Decisions re anti-aid amendment. (6/18/70; I p. typed & end.) Pending constitutional amendments. (11/5/70; I p. typed & end.) Public aid to private schools. (11/25/70; 2 pp. typed; 8/28/80; 27 pp. mimeo.) POPULAR CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS. (H. 5097; 2/24/71 87 pp. printed.) 19881 HOUSE - No. 2000 45

States' home rule provisions. (8/16 71; 3 pp. typed; 12 7 / 71; 2 pp. mimeo.) REVISING THF MUNICIPAL HOME RULE AMENDMENT. (S. 1455; 12/29/71; 217 pp. printed.) DUTIES AND POWERS OE THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. (S 1224; 12/29 71; 53 pp. printed.) Implementing the Mass. Home Rule Amendment. (3/31 72; 100 pp mimeo.) Mass, home rule charter developments. (4/19/72; 2 pp. mimeo.) Legislative promotion of constitutional amendments. (5/2/72; 23 pp mimeo.) EQUAL RIGHTS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. (S. 1537; 6 16 72; 49 pp. printed.) Constitutional amendment procedures. (7 7/72; I p. typed.) STATE AID TO PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITU- TIONS AND STUDENTS. (H. 6106; 2/28/73; I 15 pp. printed.) CHANGING THE SIZE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE CENSUS BASIS OF LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING. (H. 7020; 5 30 73; 403 pp. printed.) Municipal Home Rule. (3 12 74; 3 pp. typed; 6 24 75; 2 pp. typed & end 7/31/75; 4 pp. typed.) Mass. Initiative & Referendum provisions. (I 6 75; 5 pp. typed. See also H. 5435 of 1975, below.) Revocation of the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. (1 9 75 2 pp. typed & end.) REVISING STATEWIDE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PROVI- SIONS OF THE MASS. CONSTITUTION. (H. 5435; 2 4 75; 180 pp. printed.) Constitutionality of 1 & R use for highway fund aid. (2/25/75; 1 p. typed.) Judicial interpretation of municipal home rule. (4/23/75; 3 pp. typed.) Amendment ol proposed constitutional amendments. (7/9/75; 3 pp. typed.) Proposed constitutional amendments. (7/24/75; 1 p. typed & end.) Separation of powers provisions. (1/26/76; 4 pp. typed & end.) Island County representation in the Massachusetts General Court. (12/28 76; 35 pp. mimeo. See also H. 5900 of 1977, Appendix F.) Constitutional and statutory citations re conflict of interest. (3/ 29 77; 4 pp typed; 3/30 77; I p. typed.) Constitutional questions re reorganization of Martha's Vineyard Commis- sion. (10/24/77; 10 pp. typed.) 46 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Prohibition of motor vehicles on Martha’s Vineyard. (10/28/77; 4 pp. typed.)

Extension of time lor ERA ratification. (11/4/77; 1 p. typed & end.) General powers of the Governor of Mass. (1/25/78; 2 pp. typed & end.) Governor’s amendatory powers. (11/13/78; I p. typed & end.) Charter and home rule powers for Nantucket County. (2/2/78; I p. typed and end.) Rescission of the ERA. (2/10/78; 2 pp. typed & end.) Assessment and classification of real property. (10/23/78; 2 pp. typed.) The Initiative and Referendum in Mass. (3/8/79; I p. typed.) Elistory of women’s equal rights laws. (9/13/79; 7 pp. typed.) Governor’s item veto power re capital outlay programs. (12/14/79; 2 pp. typed.) Constitutional issue re certain 1980 public welfare proposals. (1/28/80; 4 pp. typed & end.) LIMITING TAXATION AND SPENDING BY STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. (H. 6743; 6/10/80; 407 pp. printed.) 1980 constitutional amendment actions. (9/12/80; 2 pp. typed & end.) Filling vacancies in Mass, constitutional offices. (12/30/80; 3 pp. typed.) Stales’ constitutional limitations on subject matter in legislative proposals (6/15/81; 2 pp. typed.) Mass, equal rights amendment statutes. (7/28/81; 2 pp. typed & end.) Constitutional and statutory questions on initiative petition re legislative organization. (9/15/81; 5 pp. typed & end.) Legislative history of initiative constitutional amendment (“Cohen”) limiting state and local taxes. (2/22/82; 9 pp. mimeo.) Statistical problems in forecasting impact of “Cohen amendment. (6/15/ 82; 6 pp. typed.) Mass, initiative proposal for a constitutional amendment limiting state and local taxation. (7/16/82; 161 pp. mimeo.) Constitutional amendments pending in Mass. (7/27/82; 2 pp. typed & end.) Mass. Initiative and Referendum Amendment. (I 31 83; 2 pp. typed.) USER FEES AND CHARGES. (H. 6120; 3/9/83; 91 pp. printed.) (7/15/83; 3 pp. typed.) Mass. Initiative and Referendum procedures. Statutory legislative rules and procedures. (8/17/83; 17 pp. mimeo; 10/13/ 83; 5 pp. typed.) Congressional rules and Federal statutes. (8/26/83; 3 pp. typed; 10/4/83; 3 pp. typed.) rules. Constitutional and legal issues re the use of the Initiativefor legislative (8/26/83; 12 pp. mimeo.) 19881 HOUSE No. 2000 47

Statutory and case interpretation of “form” vs. “substance”. (10/20/83; 4 pp. typed.)

Federal Constitutional Convention. (2/17/84; 3 pp. typed & end.) SPECIAL REPORT OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON RULES RELATIVE TO THE RULE-MAKING POWERS OF THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE GENERAL COURT. (5.2500; 7/23/84; 347 pp. printed.) Prepared with Research Bureau assistance. Separation of powers as it relates to receivership or control. (1/30/85; 2 pp. typed.) Final determination of contested legislative elections. (2/21/85; 2 pp typed.) The right of“Free Petition”. (2/25/85; 7 pp, typed & end.) Filling vacancies in the office of Lieutenant Governor. (4/10/85; 2 pp typed.) History of constitutional amendment re joint election of Governor and Lieutenant Governor. (6/25/85; 1 p. typed & ends.) Problems related to the “right of sanctuary”. (1/28/86; 3 pp. typed & end.) Comments on proposed amendment to annual requirement of state decennial census. (3/10/86; 7 pp. typed.) Mass, laws and regulations prohibiting discrimination in public schools. (3/25/86; 1 p. typed & end.) Analysis of arguments in MacGovern v Connolly (re redistricting) U.S. Dis- trict Court (D. Mass.) No. 86-1075-C. (6/19/86; I p. typed & II pp. memo; 9/18/86; court disposition.) Massachusetts law re “brain death”. (7/10/86; I p. typed & end.) Mass, case law re community standards and obscene materials. (7/24/86; 1 p. typed & end.) “Right-to-die" issue expounded by Supreme Judicial Court in Brophy ' New England Sinai Hospital , Mass. Ad. Sh. (1986). (9/25/86.) Legislative power to amend or repeal initiative law. (10/17/86; 3 pp. typed.) Sobriety checkpoints to detect drunken drivers. (5/14/86; Analysis of statutory and case law, 8 pp. typed; Survey of practices in states, 12 pp. typed

& end.) Restrictions in Massachusetts upon use of lie detectors and similar equipment. (11/21/86; 3 pp. typed.) “Registered voters” v. "Inhabitants” as basis of apportionment in determining districts for elective offices. (3/9/87; 3 pp. typed.) DRUG TESTING. Test Tubes And Jobs (Research in Brief 87-2; 6/18 87; 25 pp. offset.) 48 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

GARCIA V. SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHOR- ITY: The Decline and Fall of State Sovereignty (H. 6133; 9/30/87; 75 pp. printed.)

Economics, Insurance and Business

INSURANCE OF STATE VEHICLES AND OPERATING EMPLOY- EES. (H. 2648; 2/1/56; 21 pp. printed.) INSURANCE ON LIVES OF BORROWERS FROM BANKS. (H. 2803; 1/21/57; 40 pp. printed.) STATE LOANS TO LOCAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COR- PORATIONS. (S. 640; 1/21/57; 38 pp. printed; H. 3023,2/20/61; 39 pp. printed. See also S. 947 of 1965 and H. 5829 of 1982, below.) CASH SICKNESS COMPENSATION PLANS. (H. 2954; 2/10/58; 30 pp, printed.) SHARING COSTS OF GROUP INSURANCE FOR RETIRED LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. (H. 3014; 2/12/58; 26 pp. printed.) HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CARE FOR RETIRED PERSONS. (S 526; 2/24/60; 100 pp. printed.) UNFAIR ADVERTISING & RELATED PRACTICES. (H, 3060; 2/14 61; 53 pp. printed.) PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES. (S. 655; 9/13/63; 94 pp, printed.) REGULATING SALES OF REAL PROPERTY OUTSIDE MASS. (S 639; 121/64; 57 pp. printed.) IDENTIFICATION CARDS FOR LIQUOR PURCHASERS. (S. 692; I 29/64; 52 pp. printed.) TRADING STAMPS. (S. 912; 4/29/64; 101 pp. printed.) A BOSTON MULTI-PURPOSE SPORTS FACILITY. (S. 1002; 1/27/ 65; 85 pp. printed.) SUPPLEMENT. (S. 1125; 7/14/65; 35 pp. printed.) INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES AND TOWNS. (S. 947; 2 3/65; 74 pp. printed.) WATER SHORTAGE AND INDUSTRIAL WATER USE AND REUSE. (S. 930; 4/27/66; 163 pp. printed.) Trading stamp legislation. (4/28/66; 2 pp. typed; 6/29/67; I p. typed.) (H A MASSACHUSETTS FISHING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. 4638; 12/27/66; 60 pp. printed.) & end.) Interest payments on Christmas Clubs, etc. (1/31/67; I p. typed 1988) HOUSE No. 2000 49

Preference for American made goods. (2/14/67; 1 p. typed & end.) Home fire alarm systems. (3/1/67; I p. typed.) Group hospitalization insurance in Mass. (3/23/67; 2 pp. typed.) Outdoor advertising regulation in Massachusetts. (6/ 19/67; 2 pp. typed.) Mass, outdoor advertising licenses and permits issued 1944-66. (7/28 67; I p. typed.) 1967 motor vehicle insurance proposals. (10/5/67; I p. typed & end.; I 17/68; 6 pp. mimeo.) Regulation of billboards along federally aided highways. (10 9 67; 5 pp typed.) Mass, small loans rales. (10/ 10/ 67; Ip. typed.) REGULATION OF THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY. (S. 983; 12, 27 67; 46 pp. printed.) PREPAID EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PLANS. (S. 914; I 25 68; 29 pp. printed.) UNDERGROUND SHOPPING COMPLEXES. (S. 971; I 31 68; 54 pp printed.) A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR MALPRACTICI AGAINSI ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS. (S. 1050; 4 3 68; 48 pp. printed.)

THE PROMOTION Of I HE PORT OF BOSTON. ( H. 4852; 6 5 68; 60 pp. printed.) Organization of Fraudulent Claims Board. (10 9 68; 5 pp. typed.) Parking lot licenses and fees. (3/28 69; I p. typed & end.) Credit card regulation. (4 22/69; I p. typed & end.) Regulation of radio “talk" programs. (5 9 69; 1 p. typed.) Boston population and economic data. (6/16/69; 5 pp. typed.) Profile of Franklin County. (8/4/69; 7 pp. typed & end.) MOTOR VEHICLE TITLE ACT. (S. 1280; 12/18/69; 30 pp. printed.) Unordered mail merchandise. (2/2/70; I p. typed & end.) Puerto Rico automobile accident compensation law. (7 24 70; I p. typed & end.) No fault” auto insurance. (8 31/70; 1 p. typed & end.; 9 30/70; I p. typed; 10 15/71; I p. typed & end.; 10 27 71; 1 p. typed & end.; 6 30/72; 2 pp. typed & end.; 7/30/74; 1 p. typed & end.) Regulation of franchise operations. (10 27 70; I p. typed & end.) Mutual Savings Central Fund. (4/14/71; I p. typed.) Unemployment compensation and industrial “lock outs”. (4/27/71; 6 pp typed.) 50 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Mass. Supreme Court decision re constitutionality of “no fault” auto insurance. (6/ 29/71; 44 pp. mimeo.) Regulation of CATV. (8/9/71; 2 pp. typed.) Children’s flammable clothing. (11/10/71; 5 pp. mimeo & end.) States’ usury laws. (11/11/71; 1 p. typed & end.; 3/23/76; 2 pp. typed.) COMMERCIAL INCOME TAX PREPARERS. (S. 1494; 2/9/72; 55 pp. printed.) Sale of insurance by banks. (2/16/72; 1 p, typed.) Regulation of mobile home parks. (6/29/72; 1 p. typed & end.) A MASSACHUSETTS POWER AUTHORITY. (S. 1538; 7/9/72; 65 pp printed.) Regulation of solid waste disposal services. (7/25/72; 2 pp. typed & end.) Collection agencies. (8/1/72; 1 p. typed.) Advertising of drugs and medicine. (11/10/72; 2 pp. typed.) Two-car family insurance. (2/5/73; 1 p. typed.) Labelling of food and dairy products. (5/30/73; 1 p. typed & end.) Savings banks loans. (6/1/73; 5 pp. typed.) Mass, energy crisis. (6/26/73; 2 pp. typed & end.) Bank holding companies. (8/3/73; 1 p. typed & end.) Auto repair guarantees. (9/26, 73; I p. typed.) METRIC CONVERSION. (H, 7608; 10/3/73; 55 pp. printed.) Private pension fund legislation. (12/17/73; 1 p. typed & end.) States’ regulation of homeowners’ insurance rates. (12/11/74; 1 p. typed

& end.) “Open dating” of food products. (2/13/75; 1 p. typed.) COMMERCIAL BRIBERY. (H. 5533; 2/26/75; 40 pp. printed.) States’fuel adjustment charges. (4 18/75; 7 pp. typed.) & California regulation of motor vehicle repair shops. (4/9/75; I p. typed end.) Pawnbrokers’ interest rates. (5/16/ 75; 2 pp. typed.) Electronic funds transfer systems. (8/12/ 75; Ip. typed & end.) (10/21/75; p Banks disclosure of mortgage commitments by zip code. 1 typed & end.) & Minimum finance charges - credit cards. (5/21/76; I p. typed end.) Self-service gasoline stations. (7/15, 76, Ip. typed.) Subrogation rights of fire insurance companies in Mass. (7/28/76; 1 p typed.) (i I p. typed & end.) 1976 voter action on returnable containers. I/5/76; (2/16/77; 3 typed.) Heating oil price and rent adjustments. pp. 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 51

REGULATION OF DEALERS IN EQUITIES. (H. 5638; 3/16/77; 48 pp. printed.) State laws authorizing preference to in-state bidders. (6/14/77; I p. typed.) Protection of business incorporations. (8/11/77; 1 p. typed & end.) Florida court decision re motor vehicle insurance surcharges. (3/13/78; I p. typed & end.) Anti-litter legislation. (5/18, 19, 31; 7/3, 14; and 10/12/78; all I p. typed & end.; 3/3, 8/20, and 10/24/80; all I p. typed & end.; 3/23/81; 2 pp. typed.) Withdrawal of sale of premium gasoline in Maryland. (6/14/ 78; Ip. typed & end.)

Michigan law re “lemon” motor vehicles. (10/12/78; 1 p. typed & end.) States' usury statutes and related laws on installment buying. (12/18/78; 2 pp. typed & end.) Small business incentive legislation. (7/16/79; 3 pp. typed & end.) Background of rate increase to natural gas customers. (10/5/79; 2 pp typed.) FISCAL IMPACT OF STATE ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS. (H. 5954; 2/13/80; 50 pp. printed.) Drug paraphernalia legislation. (3/27, 4/24, 5/5, 9 ; 4, and 10/22/80; all I p. typed & end.; 7/15/81; 2 pp. typed.) TAX EXEMPT SECURITIES. (S. 2183; 4/3/80; 57 pp. printed.) CIGARETTE BOOTLEGGING. (S. 2215, 4/16/80; 84 pp. printed.) Mass. Film Bureau. (6/27/80; I p. typed & end.) Workmen’s Compensation maximum death benefits. (7/24/80; 3 pp. typed & end.)

Mass. Community Development Finance Corp. (7 31 80; 2 pp. typed & end.) CRIMINAL AND FRAUDULENT VICTIMIZATION OF THE ELDERLY. (H. 6556; 3 30 81; 99 pp, printed.) Regulating home building contractors. (5/4/81; 2 pp. typed. See also H 5881 of 1982, below.) The Consumer Price Index. (5/13/81; 5 pp. typed.) State public power authorities. (8 7 81; 1 p. typed & end.) Redemption rights and foreclosed properly. (8 25 81; 2 pp. typed; 1 1 23 81; 3 pp. typed.) INDUSTRIAL REVENUE BOND FINANCING. (H. 5829; 12 10 81; 46 pp. printed.) 52 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Microwave communication network towers. (1/12/82; 2 pp. typed.) REGULATION OF HOMEBUILDERS AND HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTORS. (H. 5881; 2/8/82; 68 pp. printed.) Temporary registration plates. (6/28/82; 1 p. typed & end.) Unemployment compensation provision of the “Bottle Bill”, (7/23/82; I p. typed & end.) Nuclear plants and low-level radioactive waste facilities. (11/29/82; 10 pp. mimeo.) Motor vehicle “lemon” laws. (2/15/83; 1 p. typed & end.; 2/23/84; 1 p, typed & questionnaire.) Casino gambling. (4/13/83; 335 pp. mimeo.) PLANT CLOSINGS. (S. 2162; 6/30/83; 110 pp. printed.) Uninsured motorists’ insurance coverage data. (11/30/83; 1 p. typed & end.) Regulation of “penny” stocks. (12/6/83; 1 p. typed & end.) Projection of oil and gas prices. (12/14/83; 1 p. typed & end.) Prohibition of alcoholic beverage advertising. (7/5/84; I p. typed & end.) Legislative history of 1984 Balance Billing act. (3/26/85; 3 pp. typed & end.) Prohibiting banks from imposing certain fees on the elderly and minors. (4/ 2/85; 3 pp. typed.) Generic drug cost saving pass-on laws. (6/11/85; I p. typed & ends.) Hotel room tax rates. (6/25/85; 1 p. typed & end.) Child care center liability Insurance. (10/24/85; 1 p. typed & end.; 10/31 85; I p. typed & end.) Blue Cross/Blue Shield income disbursements for claims and expenses, 1981-85. (5/12/86; 1 p. typed & table.) Proposals for insurance coverage for certain long-term health problems (6/26/86; I p. typed & end.) PRISONS FOR PROFIT. (H. 6225; 7/31/86; 114 pp. printed.) Medical malpractice insurance issues. (2/10/86; I p. typed & end.; 3/4 86 and 4/8/86; bibliographical materials.) Medical malpractice insurance proposals. (7/17/86; I p. typed & end.; 7/ 23/86; Supplements; I p. typed & end.; 8/1/86, statute: C. 351 of 1986.) Exemption of transit-related advertising to state outdoor advertising restrictions. (8/22/86; 2 pp. typed.) o Methods of assessment, taxation and allocation of tax proceeds properties of public utilities. (10/10/86; I p. typed & 8 pp, end.) (5/19/87; Information re corporate sponsorship of child care facilities. I p. typed & 22 pp. references.) 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 53

Employee involvement and ownership in Massachusetts. (7/3/87; I p. typed & 1 18 pp. reference document not available for duplication.) Legislative proposal to alleviate small business problems. (9 15/87; 2 pp typed & 16 pp. references.) Proposals in other states re use of unemployment insurance funds for venture capital. (10'7/87; 10 19 87; I p. typed & references.) Universal Health Care. (1987; Special tile on Legislative and Executive Proposals.)

Education INCREASING STATE AID FOR SCHOOLS AND GROUP ACC I- DENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE FOR TOWN EMPLOYEES. (S. 570; 2 I 56; 93 pp. printed.) SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION METHODS AND COSTS AND UNI- FORM ARCHITECTURAL PLANS. (S. 675; 2/26/58; 155 pp. printed.) COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, AND PROPOSED DIVI- SION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. (S. 467; 12 30/58; 44 pp. printed.) FAIRNESS OF STATE SUBSIDY FORMULA FOR LOCAL SCHOOI CONSTRUCTION. (S. 672; 6 22 59; 59 pp. printed. See also H. 6291 of 1981, below.) PROFESSIONAL STAFF SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS A 1 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN MASS. (S 550; 3 8 61; 52 pp. printed.) TOWN MEETINGS IN REGIONAL SCHOOLS. (H. 3687; 12 27 61; 74 pp. printed.) PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS. (H. 3723; 3 5/62; 107 pp printed.) STATE SCHOLARSHIP AND LOAN PROGRAMS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION. (S. 764; 1/28/64; 43 pp, printed.) HIGHER EDUCATION FOR GREATER BOSTON. (S. 864; 4 13 64 62 pp. printed.) SUPPLEMENT. (S. 827; 2/65; 6 pp. printed.) Expenditures for higher education. (1/31 67; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass, racial imbalance law. (7/24/68; I p. typed & end PREPAID EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PLANS. (S. 914; I 25 68 29 pp. printed.) FREE TUITION AT STATE COLLEGES. (S. 909; 2,6 68; 29 pp printed.) 54 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Handicapped children in Mass, schools. (4/4/68; 2 pp. typed.) Private and parochial school enrollments in Mass., 1968. (12/4/68; 13 pp, typed.) State college per capita costs. (12/13/68; 1 p. typed.) Teacher certification and salaries in Mass. (1 /13/69; 1 p. typed.) Greater Lawrence vocational school district vacancy. (3/26/69; 1 p. typed & end.) State enrollments college and property valuations. (5/6/69; 1 p, typed & end.)

Public school textbooks. (6/19/69; 1 p. typed & end.) Regional purchasing of school supplies. (8/22/69; 3 pp. typed.) Black culture courses in public schools. (9/29/69; 2 pp. typed.) State campus disorder legislation. (10/10/69; 1 p. typed & end.; 1/29/70; 2 pp. typed; 8/ 10/70; 1 p. typed & end.) Recent federal court decisions re school impact aid. (1/19/70; I p. typed & end.)

University of Mass, dormitory fees. (3/2/70; I p. typed & end.) THE STATE LIBRARY. (S. 1459; 3/11/70; 104 pp. printed.) THE PAYMENT OF TEACHERS’ SALARIES IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS. (H. 5368; 4, 22 70; 136 pp. printed.). Experimental schools in urban areas. (6/5/70; I p, typed & end.) School costs for foster children. (7/1/70; 1 p. typed & end.) Public aid to private schools. (11/25/70; 2 pp. typed; 8/28/80; 27 pp mimeo.) Legislative history of Harvard College, (12/21/70; 10 pp. typed.) STATE ASSUMPTION OE LOCAL EDUCATION COSTS AND PRO- VISION OF 1 QUAI EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY. (H. 5447; 4/7/71; 209 pp. printed.) Ward election of school committees. (4/27/71; 1 p. typed; 5/3/71; 8 pp mimeo.) Teachers' salaries and retirement benefits. (6/3 71; 4 pp. typed.) & Educational programs for children with dyslexia. (7/9/71; 1 p. typed end.) State college teachers salaries. (8 12 71,2 pp. typed.) SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND FEASIBLE ALTERNATIVES. (H 5071; I 26 72; 148 pp. printed.) typed & Southwick, Granville and Tolland school district. (6, 18/72; 2 pp, end.) school committee. (12/20/72; One-man, one-vote application to regional below.) 3 pp. typed. See also H. 441 i of 1976, 19881 HOUSE - No. 2000 55

STATE AID TO PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITU- TIONS AND STUDENTS. (H. 6106; 2/28/73; 115 pp. printed.) Repair of school buildings. (5/3/73; I p. typed.) Mayoral membership on school committees. (9/17/73; I p. typed.) Higher education budgetary procedures. (9/28/73; 2 pp. typed. See also 6/3/81 item, below.) Loan of text books to private school pupils. (11/28/73; 3 pp. typed.) Subsidy for certain cultural institutions. (11/30/73; I p. typed.) AN ELEMENTARY DEMONSTRATION SCHOLARSHIP PRO- GRAM. (Educational Vouchers.) (H, 5995; 4/30/74; 79 pp. printed.) Selection of State Education Commissioners. (12/12/74; 1 p. typed; 10 16/75; I p. typed & end.) Conn, decision re state aid to education. (1/20/75; 1 p. typed & end.) 1974 amendment of racial imbalance law. (2/11/75; 1 p. typed & end.) Special education under Chapter 766 of 1972. (3/4/75; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass, school discipline regulations. (5/ 12/75; 2 pp. typed.) “NESDEC” formula of school aid and property valuation. (12/15/75; 4 pp typed.) ELECTION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES. (H. 4411; I 12 76; 69 pp printed.) Guidance counselors in vocational education. (2/23/76; 1 p. typed & end.) VANDALISM OF PUBLIC PROPERTY. (H. 4951; 5/19/76; 101 pp printed.) Election of regional school committees. (8/5/76; 2 pp. typed.) State Medical School. (I 21/77; 1 p. questionnaire.) Bilingual education in Mass, (1 I 7/77; I p. typed.) School bus safety. (2 21 78; 7 pp. typed.) Pupil enrollments and costs in Mass. (3/27 78; 1 p. typed; 4 4 78; I p. typed.) Naming of state educational facilities. (7/12 79; Ip. typed & end.) Open textbook adoption system. (7/17 79; I p. typed & 2 pp questionnaire.) Governing boards of Mass, state colleges and universities. (7 18 79; 1 p typed & end.) Fiscal autonomy of city and town school departments. (10/4/79; 3 pp. typed

& end.) Voter registration of high school seniors by school administrators. (II 21 79; I p. typed & end.) 1979 legislation re teachers, police, firefighters, nurses, veterans and the elderly. (11/27/79; 6 pp. typed.) 56 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

Military pay for school employees. (4/1/80; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass, school prayer law of 1979. (6/23/80; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass, law re teachers’ salaries in public schools. (7/29/80; 1 p. typed & end.) PROTECTION OF STATE’S INTEREST IN SCHOOL BUILDING AS- SISTANCE GRANTS. (H. 6291; 1/21/81; 52 pp. printed.) DECLINING ENROLLMENTS AND REDUCTION OF SCHOOL PERSONNEL. (H. 6734; 4/30/81; 67 pp. printed.) Lump sum appropriation for unified systems of public higher education (6/3/81; 84 pp. mimeo.) Analysis/commentary on “Tregor” bill. (10/19/81; 65 pp. mimeo.) Local education costs and teachers’salaries in Mass. (12/4/81; 2 pp. typed.) Historical development of powers and duties of Mass, school committees. (11/ 4/82; 2 pp. typed & end.) Evanston, Illinois tuition tax proposal. (1/24/83; 1 p. typed & end.; 1/28 83; I p. typed & end.) Teacher performance evaluationand related programs. (8/17/83; 1 p. typed & end.) Seat belts school buses. (2/3/84; 5 pp. typed.) Local school improvement councils. (4/19/85; 4 pp, typed; 4/22/85; 2 pp. typed.) Higher education funding procedures in Mass. (10/10/85; 3 pp. typed & end.) pp. Tenure and termination laws re public school teachers. (11/18/85; 2 typed.) schools. Mass, laws and regulations prohibiting discrimination in public (3/25/86; 1 p. typed & end.) pp. typed & Pilot programs for an “extended academic day”. (5/21/86; 2 end.) of therapists or Mass, law re “duty to warn” as applied to liability & Supplement; p. counselors. (8/27/86; 2 pp. typed end.; 9/30/86; I typed & end.) among high school students. Selected publications re combating drug abuse (3/2/87; 3 pp. typed & 13 pp. references.) of United States. (3/24/87; L Proposal to make English official language pp. typed & 33 pp. references.) 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 57

Elections A SINGLE ANNUAL LISTING OF LOCAL RESIDENTS. (S. 485; I 27/60; 77 pp. printed.) POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. (S. 951; 12/21 64; 36 pp. printed. See also H. 5343 of 1977, below.) JOINT ELECTION OF GOVERNOR AND LT. GOVERNOR. (S. 949 3/3/65; 31 pp. typed.) STATE BALLOT LAW COMMISSION AND NOMINATION CON- FLICTS. (S. 770; 2/14/66; 60 pp. printed.) Pre-primary conventions. (2/7/66; 15 pp. mimeo; 1/11 72; 2 pp. typed.) ABSENTEE VOTING. (S. 790; 2/21/66; 65 pp. printed. See also H. 6581 of 1979, below.) FOUR-YEAR TERM FOR LEGISLATORS. (S. 784; 2/23/66; 27 pp printed.) SHORTENED VOTER RESIDENCE REQUIREMENTS. (S. 823; 3/9 66; 39 pp. printed.) VOTING BY PAUPERS. (S. I 103; 2/8/67; 26 pp. printed.) New York direct primary law. (4/12/67; 1 p. typed & end.) Firefighter initiative and referendum laws. (11/3/67; I p. typed & end.) LOWER VOTING AGES. (S. 997; 3/13/68; 42 pp. printed.) Minimum ages for public office. (3/26/68; 3 pp. mimeo.) Use of electronic voting systems in Mass. (3/28/68; I p. typed; 7/10/75 1 p. typed and end.; 11/5/76; 1 p, typed & end.) Holiday status of presidential election day. (I I / 30/68; 2 pp. typed & end.) Vacancies in local elected offices. (I/14/69; 2 pp. typed.) PRESIDENTIAL PRE-PRIMARY PRACTICES. (H. 4715; 1/27 69; 41 pp. printed.) VOTER PARTICIPATION AT STATE AND MUNICIPAL ELEC TIONS. (H. 4994; 1/28/70; 63 pp. printed.) Election of selectmen. (12/18/70; 2 pp. typed.) Voter registration laws in selected states. (3/30/71; 2 pp. typed.) Ward election of school committees (4/27/71; 1 p, typed; 5/2/71; 8 pp

mimeo.) Low-income housing referenda laws (7/12/71; 2 pp. typed & end.; 8/3 71; 1 p. typed & end.) Voter residency provisions. (7/30/71 2 pp. typed & end.) Validity of initiative petitions. (12/21/71; 1 p. typed.) SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND FEASIBLE ALTERNATIVES. (H 5071; 1/26/72; 148 pp. printed.) 58 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Post" method of electing county and other officials. (5/12/72; 6 pp mimeo.) Supervision of elections. (7/17/72; 2 pp. typed and questionnaire.) VOTER IDENTIFICATION. (H. 5970; 1/22/73; 69 pp. printed.) MULTIPLE OFFICEHOLDING. (S. 1609; 2/7/73; 50 pp. printed.) Youth voting. (2/14/73; 1 p. typed.) Vacancies in offices of sheriff and district attorney. (3/16/73; 3 pp. typed & end.) Selection of town treasurers. (3/16/73; I p. typed.) Voter reaction to “initiative” questions. (6/11 /73; 2 pp. typed.) Election dates. (6/28/73; 4 pp. typed; 8/16/73; 2 pp. typed & end.) Majority at-large membership on city councils. (9/17/73; I p. typed.) Campaign finance. (9/17/73; 2 pp, typed & end.) Notarizations of absentee ballots. (12/17/73; 1 p. typed & end.) Recall of elected officials. (12/18/73; 1 p. typed; 7/3/75; 1 p. typed. See also H. 5690 of 1979, below.) ORDER OF NAMES ON THE BALLOT. (H. 5312; 1/9/74; 45 pp, printed.) Appointment of local election officials. (1/17/74; I p. typed.) POLITICAL PARTY STRUCTURE AND PUBLIC CAMPAIGN FUNDING. (S. 1578; 1/23/74; 90 pp. printed.) Implementing census provisions of “House Cut” proposal. (1/30/74; 6 pp. typed.) VOTING BY PRISONERS AND THE MENTALLY ILL. (H. 5360; 12 30/74; 77 pp. printed.) Mass. 1 & R provisions. (1/6/75; 5 pp. typed. See also H. 5435 ol 1975, below.) STATEWIDE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PROVI- SIONS OF THE MASS. CONSTITUTION. (H. 5435; 2/4/75; 180 pp. printed.) Legislative intent ol selected 1890 election laws. (2/24 75; 2 pp. typed.) Different polling hours for primary and general elections. (4/30/75; 1 p. typed.) MINOR POLITICAL PARTIES AND INDEPENDENT CANDI- DATES. (H. 6151; 5/21/75; 66 pp. printed.) typed & end., Lottery method of determining ballot positions. (8/7/75; I p. 1/13/77- p. typed; 11/10/77; p. typed; 8/11/78; p. typed.) I I I 69 pp ELECTION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES, (H. 4411; 1/12/76; printed.) 1988| HOUSE No. 2000 59

Local “Information to Voters” practices. (5/5/76; 2 pp. typed.) Election ofregional school committees. (8/5/76; 2 pp, typed.) 1976 voter action on returnable containers. (11/5/76; 1 p. typed & end.) POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. (H. 5343; 12/29 76; 202 pp. printed.) Boston charter reform. (1/18/77; 2 pp. typed; 1/24/77; 6 pp. mimeo; 2 7/77; 10 pp. typed; 2/25/77; 15 pp. mimeo.) Cost of information re ballot questions. (6/7/77; I p. typed.) Congressional redistricting changes. (6/8/77; 3 pp. typed.) Referenda procedures for representative town meetings. (12/15/77; 3 pp. typed.) State statutes re voter change of name/address. (3/ 21 / 78; 2 pp. typed.) A CENTRALIZED ELECTIONS ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM. (H 5759; 5/3/78; 81 pp. printed.) Recall election systems in Mass, municipalities. (5/4/78; 3 pp. mimeo. See also H. 5690 of 1979, below.) Preservation of campaign finance records. (6/26/78; 1 p. typed.) States with “blanket open primary” laws. (1/24/79; 1 p. typed.) ABSENTEE VOTING. (H. 6581; 1/24/79; 49 pp. typed.) VOTER APPROVAL OF BORROWING AND PROPERTY TAXES (H. 5576; 2/8/79; 57 pp. typed.) RECALL OF LOCAL OFFICIALS. (H. 5690; 2/28/79; 108 pp. printed.) The Initiative and Referendum in Mass. (3/8/79; 1 p. typed.) At-large town meeting member status for appointed town officials. (4/11/ 79; 3 pp. typed & end.) Local government initiative authority. (6/15/79; 2 pp. typed & end.) Local recall legislation. (11/2/79; 1 p. typed & end.; 11 /29/79; 2 pp. typed; 5/13/80; I p. typed; 6/18/81; 1 p. typed; 11/24/81; 1 p. typed; 1 12/ 82; 1 p. typed; 8/5/82; I p. typed; 8/29/83; 2 pp. typed; 1/ 18/84; 2 pp typed; 7/31/84; 1 p. typed; 12/1 1/84; 2 pp. typed; 1/22/85; 2 pp. typed; and 11/1/85; 3 pp. typed; 9/11/87; 2 pp. typed.) Voter registration of high school seniors by school administrators. (11 29 79; 1 p. typed & end.) Public funding of legislative elections. (4/ 10/80; 2 pp. typed & end.) Filling vacancies in Mass, constitutional offices. (12/30/80; 3 pp. typed.) Filling vacancies on boards of selectmen. (2/3/81; I p. typed & end.) History of the Mass, poll tax. (3/6/81; I p. typed.) Election of judges. (5/6/81; 2 pp. typed & end.) Nonvoting territorial delegates in Congress. (12/10/81; 3 pp. typed.) 60 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

Mass, congressional districts. (3/12/82; 2 pp. typed.) Mass, initiative proposal for a constitutional amendment limiting state and local taxation. (7/16/82; 161 pp. mimeo.) Number of precincts in Mass. Congressional, State Senate and House of Representatives districts. (8/31/82; 8 pp. typed.) Recent female voting patterns. (11/2/82; I p. typed & end.) Mass. Initiative and Referendum Amendment. (1/31/83; 2 pp. typed.) Initiative and Referendum provisions in Mass, municipal charters. (4/26 83; 13 pp. mimeo.) Limiting state tax revenues and use of the Initiative. (7/12/83; 2 pp. typed & end.) Mass. Initiative and Referendum procedures. (7/15/83; 3 pp, typed.) Local “Information to Voters” pamphlets. (9/13/83; 14 pp. mimeo.) Federal Constitution Convention. (2/17/84; 3 pp. typed & end.) Mass, municipalities electing officers by precincts, districts and wards. (1 21/85; 2 pp. typed.) Enforcement of legal standards re municipal wards/precincts. (1/22/85; 7 pp. typed.) Background and administration of Mass, mid-decade census. (2/13/85; 12 pp. typed.) Final determination of contested legislative elections. (2/21/85; 2 pp, typed.) Federal case law re candidates’ residency requirements. (4/9/85; 3 pp typed.) Filling vacancies in the office of Lieutenant Governor. (4/10/85; 2 pp, typed.) Population ratio per state senate and representative districts in U.S. (6, 6/85; 3 pp. typed.) Partisan municipal elections in Mass. (9/23/85; 4 pp. typed & end.) Laws re campaign fund solicitation by or from public employees. (2/3/86: 5 pp. typed & end.) Changes in voter registration laws and procedures since 1960. (10/20/86: 2 pp. typed & end.) Statutes controlling political campaign ethics. (11/25/86; 2 pp. typed.) “Registered voters” v. “Inhabitants” as basis of apportionment in determining districts for elective offices. (3/9/87; 3 pp, typed.) Special acts authorizing recall elections in cities and towns of Mass. (9/ 11/87; 2 pp. typed & references.) Ways and means whereby a town may change its method of electing its board of selectmen, (9/28/87; 8 pp. typed.) 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 61

General Reference ANNUAL REPORTS OF LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COUNCIL AND BUREAU: FIRST THROUGH THIRTY-SECOND, AND THIRTY-THIRD. (H. 2000; 11/10/87; 121 pp. printed.) DIRECTORY OF RESEARCH UNITS OF THE LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES OF MASS. STATE GOVERNMENT. (S. 1534; 9/6/72; 90 pp. printed.) INDEX OF SPECIAL REPORTS AUTHORIZED BY THE GENERAL COURT, 1900-1978. (FIFTH EDITION) (H. 6161; 4/30/79; 60 pp. printed.) FIRST SUPPLEMENT. (10/1/80; 4 pp. mimeo;) SECOND SUPPLEMENT. (5/6/82; 3 pp. mimeo;) THIRD SUPPLEMENT. (4/ 27/83; 2 pp. mimeo.) FOURTH SUPPLEMENT. (5/15/84; 2 pp. mimeo.)

Government County ORGANIZATION AND APPORTIONMENT OF EXPENSES OF SUF- FOLK COUNTY. (H. 3030; 1/1/58; 48 pp. printed.) SUCCESSION AND CONTINUITY IN STATE AND COUNTY GOV- ERNMENT. (S. 520; 2/25/59; 37 pp. printed.) COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN MASSACHUSETTS. (H. 3131; 11/14 62; 167 pp. printed. See also S. 2245 of' 1981. below.) Mass, county expenditures and personnel. (2/13/67; 3 pp. typed.) Worcester County expenditures and personnel. (3/15/67; 3 pp. typed.) Reorganization of county government, (11 / 28/ 67; 9 pp. typed.) RESTRICTING THE ZONING POWER TO CITY AND COUNTY GOVERNMENTS. (S. 1133; 4/3/68; 196 pp. printed.) REGIONAL GOVERNMENT. (H. 4988; I/26/70; 136 pp. printed.) “Post” method of electing county and other officials. (5/12/72; 6 pp mimeo.) Vacancies in offices of sheriff and district attorney. (3/16/73; 3 pp. typed & end.) COUNTY HOME RULE, (H. 7434; 9/4/73; 179 pp. printed.) Salaries and terms of Mass, county officials. (5/13/75; 1 p. typed & end 10/29/75; I p. typed & end.) Comments on draft of county charter law. (1/7/76; 2 pp. typed & end.) Charter and home rule powers for Nantucket County. (2/2/78; I p. typed

& end.) 62 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

lowa county home rule amendment. (10/31/78; 1 p. typed & end.) Women in Mass, judiciary and county offices. (8/3/79; 2 pp. typed.) Women county commissioners. (9/4/80; 1 p. typed.) COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN MASS. (S. 2245; 2/13/81; 94 pp. printed.) State eminent domain powers over county buildings and contents. (6/3 81; 2 pp. typed.) Home rule proposal for Barnstable County. (9/19/85; 2 pp. typed & end.) Elected officials serving terms of more than four years, survey of states (7/1/86; 2 pp. typed & 7 pp. table.) Work Release Programs administered by county sheriffs in Mass, and elsewhere. (5/18/87; 2 pp. typed & 40 pp. references.) Structure, financing and other aspects of county government. (10/14/87; 16 pp. typed.)

Government Local (City & Town) INCREASING STATE AID FOR SCHOOLS AND GROUP ACCI- DENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE FOR TOWN EMPLOYEES. (S. 570; 2/1/56; 93 pp. printed.) CHANGING THE FISCAL YEAR OF MUNICIPALITIES TO START JULY I INSTEAD OF JANUARY 1. (S. 735; 6/26/57; 23 pp. printed.) SHARING COSTS OF GROUP INSURANCE FOR RETIRED LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. (H. 3014; 2/12/58; 26 pp. printed.) A SINGLE ANNUAL LISTING OF LOCAL RESIDENTS. (S. 485; 1 27/60; 77 pp. printed.) CERTAIN LAND ASPECTS OF URBAN RENEWAL. (S. 465; 1/24 61; 50 pp. printed.) CONFLICT OF INTEREST. (S. 650; 5/15/61; 48 pp. printed; H. 3450; 1/24/62; 20 pp. printed. See also H. 6475 of 1975, below.) STATE AID TO CITIES AND TOWNS FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES (H. 3580; 12/6/61; 101 pp. printed.) TOWN MEETINGS IN REGIONAL SCHOOLS. (H. 3687; 12/27/61; 74 pp. printed.) RELOCATION ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS AND FIRMS DIS- PLACED BY PUBLIC ACTION. (H. 3495; 1/8/62; 42 pp. printed.) LOCAL ZONING AND PARTIAL TAKINGS UNDER EMINENT DOMAIN. (H. 3657; 1/15/62; 69 pp. printed.) DUTIES OF LOCAL FIREFIGHTERS. (H. 3655; 1/24/62; 74 pp printed.) 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 63

CERTAIN DELAYS AND COSTS CONNECTED WITH URBAN RE- NEWAL. (S. 710; 1 /28/63; 39 pp. printed.) METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COMMISSION SEA AQUARIUM FOR SOUTH BOSTON. (S. 700; 1/30/63; 34 pp. printed.) AN ALL-WEATHER STADIUM FOR SOUTH BOSTON. (S. 728; I 16/64; 30 pp. printed.) Federal census and state-local apportionment. (2/7/67; 3 pp. questionnaire.) Competitive bids on local government purchases. (2/7/67; 1 p. typed & end.) REIMBURSEMENT OF LEGAL COSTS TO INDICTED PUBLIC OF- FICIALS. (H. 4636; 2/13/67; 19 pp. printed.) Powers of cities to increase salaries of officials. (2/14/67; 3 pp. typed & end.) RESTRICTING THE ZONING POWER TO CITY AND COUNTY GOVERNMENTS. (S. 1133; 4/3/68; 196 pp. printed.) Proposed constitutional amendment re special Boston legislation. (4/15 68; 2 pp. typed.) U.S. District Court decisions redistricting City of New Bedford. (4/17/68; 2 pp. mimeo.)

Governmentalimmunity. (4/23/68; 1 p. typed; 3/20/70; 1 p, typed & end.; 9/5/74; 1 p. typed; 3/21/77; 1 p. typed & end.; 8/19/77; 1 p. typed & end.; 1/8/80; 3 pp. typed.) City Council authority for ward changes. (6/26/68; 2 pp. typed.) Leasing of air rights by local governments. (8/6/68; 1 p. typed & end.) Rent control. (8/16/68; 12 pp. typed; 4/27/73; 1 p. typed & end.; 7/29 75; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass. Supreme Court opinion re multi-member state legislative districts in Boston. (10/30/68; 6 pp. mimeo.) South Middlesex Opportunity Council. (1/15/69; I p. typed Reapportioning Quincy city wards. (1/23/69; 3 pp. typed.) FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO CITIES AND TOWNS. (S. 1260; 1/29 69; 86 pp. printed.) Town employees as town meeting members. (5/7/69; 1 p. typed & end.) CLASSIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF REAL PROPERTY. (H 5323; 5/21/69; 50 pp. printed.) SELECTED PROBLEMS OF URBAN REHABILITATION IN MASS (S. 1540; 7/30/69; 243 pp. printed.) 64 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

State action re urban problems and model cities. (9/2/69; 10 pp. mimeo.) Hospitalization benefits for local government employees. (9/25/69; 1 p. typed.) Boston ward council and school committee. (10/2/69; 3 pp. typed.) New towns in Great Britain. (11/14/69; 9 pp. mimeo.) VOLUNTARY MUNICIPAL MERGER PROCEDURES. (H. 5453; 3 11/70; 238 pp. printed.) NEW TOWNS. (H. 6192; 7/29/70; 327 pp. printed.) Palmer water supply. (8/11/70; 11 pp, typed & end.) Town of Marblehead legislation. (8/24/70; 2 pp. typed.) “Anti-Snob Zoning” law and related problems. (12/2/70; 2 pp. typed; 2 17/72; 1 p. typed.) Election of selectmen. (12/18/70; 2 pp. typed.) THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN LARGE TOWNS. (H. 5302; 3/16 71; 247 pp. printed.) Selected aspects re town meeting action. (4/12/71; 3 pp. typed.) State aid to the City of Gardner. (6/22/71; I p. typed.) Local personnel boards. (6/24/71; 1 p. typed & end.) Municipal building insurance fund. (10/28/71; I p. typed.) REVISING THE MUNICIPAL HOME RULE AMENDMENT. (S. 1455; 12/29/71; 217 pp. printed.) (See also mimeo edition of 3/31/72, below.) Municipal CATV systems. (1/17/72; I p. typed & end.) SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND FEASIBLE ALTERNATIVES. (H 5071; 1/26/72; 148 pp. printed.) Mayors’ and councilmen’s salaries. (2/14/72; 2 pp. mimeo.) State aid to Chicopee and Holyoke. (3/28/72; 3 pp. typed.) Implementing the Mass. Home Rule Amendment. (3/31/72; 100 pp mimeo.) STATE ASSUMPTION OF CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY TAX EX- EMPTIONS. (H. 5969; 5/10/72; 81 pp. printed.) Post” method of electing county and other officials. (5/12/72; 6 pp, mimeo.) Mass, municipalities with purchasing agents. (5/24/72; 2 pp. typed.) Conflict of interest. (7/1/72; 2 pp. typed. See also H. 6475 of 1975, below.) Representative town meeting. (1/25/73; 6 pp. mimeo; 4/30/73; 3 pp. typed.) A STANDARD ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. (H. 6009; 1/31/73; 82 pp. printed.) Population as basis for state aid distributions. (2/5/73; I p. typed.) 1988) HOUSE No. 2000 65

MULTIPLE OFFICEHOLDING. (S. 1609; 2/7/73; 50 pp. printed.) State and local government expenditures. (3/7/73; 2 pp. typed.) Town council form of government (3/13/73; 3 pp. typed; 4/30/73; 4 pp typed.) Selection of town treasurers. (3/16/73; I p, typed.) Majority at-large membership on city councils. (9/17/73; I p. typed.) Mayoral membership on school committees. (9/17/73; 1 p. typed. See also H. 4411 of 1976, below.) State “cherry sheets”. (10/25/73; 3 pp. typed.) Randolph-Holbrook water supply. (10/25/73; 3 pp. typed; 2, 11/75; 2 pp typed.) Appointment of local election officials. (1/17/74; I p. typed.) Local tenure acts, 1964-1973. (2/22/74; 1 p. typed & end.) Financial impact on City of Everett of Chapter 1140 of 1973. (4/10/74; pp. typed.) A SUBDIVISION CONTROL ADMINISTRATOR. (H. 5722; 4/10/74; 38 pp. printed.) Local approval of bills affecting two towns. (7/3/74; I p. typed.) City and town hospital building authorities. (10/3/74; 2 pp. typed & end.) Bourne town government proposals. (4/1 /75; 3 pp. typed.) Methuen Housing Authority and School Committee. (4/ 10/75; I p. typed.) RESTRICTING THE APPLICATION OF STATE LAWS ADDING TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT COSTS. (H. 5841; 4/ 15 75; 163 pp. printed.) Possible changes in legislative redistricting requirements. (5, 12/75; 3 pp typed.) THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST LAW AND THE SEPARATION Of POWERS. (H. 6475; 7/3/75; 179 pp. printed.) Dog license collection fees. (10/21/75; 2 pp. typed & end.; 11/7/75; 6 pp typed.) ELECTION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES. (H. 4411; 1/12 76; 69 pp printed. Commuter and “head” taxes. (2/3/76; 3 pp. typed & end.) Regulation of massage parlors. (3/5/76; 1 p. typed & end.; 1/12/76; I p typed & end.; 1/27/77; folder of material.) VANDALISM OF PUBLIC PROPERTY. (H. 4951; 5/19/76; 101 pp printed.) Local government payroll taxes. (5/24/76; 3 pp. typed & end.; 6/26/76 2 pp. typed.) 66 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

A PLANNED PROGRAM BUDGET SYSTEM. (H. 5200; 6/30/76; 65 pp. printed.) ESTABLISHING A METROPOLITAN SERVICES FINANCING DIS- TRICT IN THE BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA. (S. 1680; 8/4/ 76; 349 pp. printed.) Boston charter reform. (1/18/77; 2 pp. typed; 1/24/77; 6 pp. mimeo; 2 7/77; 10 pp. typed; 2/25/77; 15 pp. mimeo.) Inter-municipality land taking. (1/26/77; I p. typed.) Local government precinct changes and legislative redistricting. (4/19/77; 3 pp. typed.) Island communities’ secession movement. (5/17/77; 2 pp. typed.) THE REIMBURSEMENT OF MUNICIPAL HOSPITALS FOR GEN- ERAL RELIEF CARE. (S. 1949; 10/13/77; 59 pp. printed.) Constitutional questions re reorganization of Martha’s Vineyard Commis- sion. (10/24/77; 10 pp. typed.) Prohibition of motor vehicles on Martha’s Vineyard. (10/28/77; 4 pp, typed.) Full valuation and “cherry sheet” impact (City of Brockton). (11/14/77; 4 pp. typed.) Referenda procedures for representative town meetings. (12/15/77; 3 pp. typed.) Town meeting business sessions. (1/24/78; 1 p. typed.) State revenue and state aid to Boston. (2/24/78; 1 p. typed & end.) Recall election systems in Mass, municipalities. (5/4/78; 3 pp. mimeo. See also H. 5690 of 1979, below.) Conservation Commissions in Mass. (6/2/78; I p. typed.) Voter approval of borrowing and property taxes. (6/27/78; 57 pp. mimeo.) Future status of Brockton water supply. (8/3/78; 2 pp. typed.) Assessment and classification of real property. (10/23/78; 2 pp. typed.) VOTER APPROVAL OF BORROWING AND PROPERTY TAXES. (H. 5576; 2/8/79; 57 pp. printed.) RECALL OF LOCAL OFFICIALS. (H. 5690; 2/28/79; 108 pp. printed.) Federally mandated programs. (4/10/79; 1 p. typed & end.) The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA). (4/ 10/79; 3 pp. typed.) The Classification Amendment and shelflegislation. (4/10/ 79; 2 pp. typed.) At-large town meeting member status for appointed town officials. (4/11/ 79; 3 pp. typed & end.) 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 67

Local government initiative authority. (6/15/79; 2 pp. typed & end.) Fiscal autonomy of city and town school departments. (10/4/79; 3 pp typed.) Development of the local fire department. (10/17/79; 6 pp. typed.) Local recall legislation. (11/2/79; 1 p. typed & end.; 11/29/79; 2 pp. typed 5/13/80; 1 p. typed; 6/18/81; I p. typed; 11/24/81; I p. typed & end. 1 /12/82; I p. typed & end.; 8/5/82; 1 p. typed & end.; 8/29/83; 2 pp typed; 1/18/84; 2 pp. typed; 7/31/84; I p. typed; 12/11/84; 2 pp. typed 1/2/85; 2 pp. typed; 11/1/85; 3 pp. typed; 9/11/87; 2 pp. typed.) Pending tax and spending limitation initiative proposals. (3/11/80; 2 pp typed & end.; 8/4/80; 21 pp. mimeo.) SITE VALUE TAXATION. (H, 6075; 3/12/80; 105 pp. printed.) LIMITING TAXATION AND SPENDING BY STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. (H. 6743; 6/10/80; 407 pp. printed.) Municipal parking authorities. (6/23/80; 3 pp. typed.) Appointment of patrolmen and centralized police communications systems in Mass. (10/2/80; I p. typed & end.) Home Rule Procedure Act and the “freeze” on adoption of standard city government plans. (1/13/81; 7 pp. mimeo.) Right of local self government. (1/24/81; 6 pp. mimeo; 3/12/81; 28 pp mimeo.)

Filling vacancies on boards of selectmen. (2/3/81; 1 p. typed & end.) Civil Service Commission decision re fire-fighter reduction. (4/3/81; 1 p typed & end.) Traffic commissions in cities and large towns. (5/12/81; 3 pp. typed.) Home Rule aspects re "2/i" bailout aid. (6/9/81; 3 pp. typed & end.) Municipal secession and annexation procedures. (7/24/81; 2 pp. typed.) 'Xnalysis/commentary on “Tregor” bill. (10/19/81; 65 pp. mimeo.) Local or regional nonproperty taxes. (11/16/81; 6 pp. typed.) INDUSTRIAL REVENUE BOND FINANCING. (H. 5829; 12/10/81; 4f pp. printed.) Town planning board members’ terms. (1/7/82; 2 pp. typed.) Local governments’ adoption of smoke detector statute. (2/2/82; 2 pp typed & end.) Fall River redistricting, (2/19/82; 3 pp. typed.) “Proposition l/i" override provisions. (2/22/82; 2 pp. mimeo.) Redevelopment authority officials and employees as municipal employees (11/3/82; 2 pp. typed.) 68 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

Initiative and Referendum provisions in Mass, municipal charters. (4/26 83; 13 pp. mimeo.) Local housing authority membership and the Home Rule Amendment. (6 29/83; 5 pp. typed.) Appointments by “lame duck” mayor. (8/26/83; I p. typed & end.) Local “Information to Voters” pamphlets. (9/13/83; 14 pp. mimeo.) State revenue and local aid data 2nd Plymouth District. (1/20/84; 3 pp typed.) Televising local government legislative sessions. (3/1/84; 5 pp. typed.) Mass, municipalities electing officers by precincts, districts and wards (1 21/85; 2 pp. typed.) Enforcement of legal standards re municipal wards/precincts. (1/22/85; 7 pp. typed.) Background and administration of Mass, mid-decade census. (2/13/85; 12 pp. typed.) Methods of naming constables in Massachusetts. (1/28/86; 5 pp. typed.) Elected officials serving terms of more than four years, survey of states. (7/1/86; 2 pp. typed & 7 pp. table.) Updating city or town charters. (6/4/87; 4 pp. typed.) Proposals to regulate pit bulls and other vicious dogs. (7/28/87; 1 p. typed & selected references.) Special acts authorizing recall elections in cities and towns of Mass. (9 11/87; 2 pp. typed & references.) Ways and means whereby a town may change its method of electing its board of selectmen. (9/28/87; 8 pp. typed.)

Government Municipal Home Rule MUNICIPAL HOME RULE. (S. 580; 3/22/61; 160 pp. printed; S. 950; 3/10/65; 135 pp. printed.) Home rule re public education. (6/12/64; 2 pp. typed & end.; 4/30/68; 6 pp. mimeo.) Mass, municipal charter revision procedures. (10/10/67; 5 pp. mimeo; 5 2/68; 2 pp. typed; 4/15/70; 5 pp. typed; 9/10/73; 6 pp, typed.) “Home rule clause” on special local bills. (10/25/67; 3 pp. typed.) “Devolution of powers” features of home rule in Mass. (6/26/68; 14 pp. mimeo.) Preliminary home rule charter for Town of Wrentham. (10/15/68; 5 pp mimeo.) 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 69

Suggested changes in Home Rule Amendment. (10 30 68; 18 pp. mimeo: 5/3 71; 22 pp. mimeo. See also S. 1455 of 1972. below.) Local home rule action in Mass. (5 23 69; 6 pp. mimeo; 3 18 71; I p. typed; 4/19/72; 2 pp. mimeo.) Home rule power of towns in Mass. (10/26/70; 4 pp. typed.) States’homerule provisions. (8 16 71; 3 pp. typed; 12 7, 71; 2 pp. mimeo.) REVISING THE MUNICIPAL HOME RULE AMENDMENT. (S. 1455; 12/29/71; 217 pp. printed. See mimeo edition of 3, 31 72, below.) Implementing the Mass. Home Rule Amendment. (3/31,72; 100 pp mimeo.) Town council form of government. (3 13/73; 3 pp. typed; 4 30 73; 4 pp typed.) Mass, home rule charter development. (4 19 72; 2 pp. mimeo.) Municipal home rule. (3 12 74; 3 pp. typed; 6 24 75; 2 pp. typed & end 31 75; 4 pp. typed.) Local approval of bills affecting two towns. (7/3/74; I p. typed.) Judicial interpretation of municipal home rule. (4 23 75; 3 pp. typed.) Boston charter reform. (1 18 77; 2 pp. typed; 1/24/77; 6 pp. mimeo; 7 77; 10 pp. typed; 2 25 77; 15 pp. mimeo.) Use of home rule powers by Mas: municipalities. 1976-77. (9 14 77; 10 pp. mimeo.) Revere nudity ordinance. (12 28 I p. typed & end Home rule status of U.S. territorie and commonwealths. (3/ 22/ 79; 4 pp typed.) Comments on proposed home rule charter for Natick. (2/21/80; 3 pp typed.) Governor’s exercise of home rule authority. (8/20/80; 4 pp. typed.) Home Rule Procedure Act and the “freeze" on adoption of standard city government plans. (I 13/81; 7 pp. mimeo.) Right of local self government. (1 24 81; 6 pp. mimeo; 3 12/81; 28 pp mimeo.) Home Rule aspects re “2'A” bailout aid. (6 9/81; 3 pp. typed & end.) “Police-Fire" provisions of FYB2 budget bill. (8/4 81; 2 pp. typed & end.) Local housing authority membership and the Home Rule Amendment. (6 29 83; 5 pp. typed.) Updating city or town charters. (6/4 87; 4 pp. typed.) Special acts authorizing recall elections in cities and towns of Mass. (9 1187; 2 pp. typed & references.) 70 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

Government State

““INSURANCE OF STATE VEHICLES AND OPERATING EMPLOY- EES. (H. 2648; 2/1 /56; 21 pp. printed.) ““INCREASED COMPENSATION FOR CIVIL DEFENSE VOLUN- TEERS. (H. 3006; 1/7/58; 38 pp. printed.) ““SUCCESSION AND CONTINUITY IN STATE AND COUNTY GOV- ERNMENT. (S. 520; 2/25/59; 37 pp. printed.) Legislative review of administrative agency regulations. (3/25/60; 2 pp. typed; 3/28/63; 6 pp. typed; 6/11/68; 19 pp. mimeo.; 1/23/75; 2 pp. typed; 8/22/75; 2 pp. typed & end.; 10/25/76; 1 p, typed & end.; 8 1 18/78; 5 pp. typed.) ““CONFLICT OF INTEREST. (S. 650; 5/15/61; 48 pp. printed; H. 3450; 1/24/62; 20 pp. printed. See also H. 6475 of 1975, below.) Powers of Mass. Executive (Gov.) Council. (4/2/62; 10 pp. mimeo; 4/16/ 64; 57 pp. mimeo; 2/15/74; 1 p. typed & end.) State legislative salary and related data.(3/21/63; 22 pp. mimeo.) Reprinted in ““GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE re SALARIES OF MEMBERS OF GENERAL COURT. (H. 3422; Appendix A; 4/23/63; pp. 27-45.) Four-year terms; jointelection of Gov. and Lt. Gov. (4/9/63; 32 pp. mimeo.) Item veto of legislative appropriations in Washington. (5/10/63; 4 pp. mimeo.) Reorganization of Department of Public Works. (10/9/63; 32 pp. mimeo.) ““COMBINING STATE DEPARTMENTS OF PUBLIC WELFARE, PUBLIC HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH. (S. 850; 3/25/64; 41 pp. printed.) ““STATE COMPLIANCE WITH PROPOSALS OF FEDERAL ADVI- SORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELA- TIONS. (S. 860; 5/20/64; 82 pp. printed.) “EXECUTIVE BRANCH REORGANIZATION. (S. 948; 2/8/65; 103 pp. printed.) “EXTENSION OFTIME FOR GUBERNATORIAL ACTION ON BILLS AND RESOLVES. (S. 677; 1/31/66; 17 pp. printed.) “STATE BALLOT LAW COMMISSION AND NOMINATION CON- FLICTS. (S. 770; 2/14/66; 60 pp. printed.) Federal census and state-local apportionment. (2/7/67; 3 pp. questionnaire.) 1988) HOUSE - No. 2000 71

DETERMINATION OF GUBERNATORIAL DISABILITY. (S. i 145; 2 1 /67; 31 pp. printed.) State organization re Welfare, Correction and Parole Depts.; and Youth Service Board. (2/9/67; 1 p. typed & end.) * REIMBURSEMENT OF LEGAL COSTS TO INDICTED PUBLIC OF- FICIALS. (H. 4636; 2/13/67; 19 pp. printed.) * A GRADUATED STATE INCOME TAX FOR MASSACHUSETTS. (S 1199; 3/29/67; 70 pp. printed.) Church-State relations in Mass. (4/14/67; 2 pp. typed & end.) Mass, state procedures for estimating revenues. (8/31/67; 1 p. typed.) MASSACHUSETTS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY SAFETY ACT OF 1966. (S. 980; 1/20/68; 77 pp. printed.) Governmental immunity. (4/23/68; I p. typed; 3/30/70; 1 p. typed & end.; 9/5/74; 1 p. typed; 3/21 /77; 1 p. typed & end.; 8/19/77; 1 p. typed & end.; 1/8/80; 3 pp. typed.) Reorganization plan re state public safety agencies. (6/18/68; 17 pp mimeo.) Centralized authority for data processing systems. (7/1/68; 6 pp. mimeo.) State practice in hiring consultants. (7/8/68; I p. typed & end.) State purchasing procedure. (7/16/69; 2 pp. questionnaire.) State action re urban problems and model cities. (9/2/69; 10 pp. mimeo.) Executive reorganization. (10/7/69; 2 pp. typed & end.; 3/4/75; I p. typed & end.) Value of State real property. (1/14/70; 2 pp. typed & end.) State labor department. (1 /26/70; 1 p. typed & end.) THE STATE LIBRARY. (S. 1459; 3/11/70; 104 pp. printed.) State-initiated amendments to federal constitution. (5/12/70; 15 pp. mim-

CIVIL DEFENSE. (H. 5034; 1 27 71; 67 pp. printed.) California Executive Branch reorganization. (3/29/71; 5 pp. typed.) Compensation of Mass. Boards of Registration. (8/16/71; 2 pp. typed.) Welfare controls. (12/9/71; I p. typed & end.) LEASING OF FACILITIES FOR GOVERNMENTAL PURPOSES. (H 5563; 4/5 72; 60 pp. printed.) 73; Conflict of interest. (7/1 / 72; 2 pp. typed; I I 27 7 pp. typed.) A MASSACHUSETTS POWER AUTHORITY. (S. 1538; 7/9/72; 65 pp printed.) 72 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Public building construction in Boston Government Center. (11/13/72; 2 pp. typed.) & Recent '/ 12 state budget acts. (3/1/73; Ip. typed end.) Publicly operated zoos. (8/17/73; 9 pp. typed.) ORDER OF NAMES ON THE BALLOT. (H. 5312; 1/9/74; 45 pp printed.) State employees’ use of privately owned auto. (3/20/74; 1 p. typed & end.) CERTIFICATE OF NEED AND A UNIFIED STATE HOSPITAL SYS- TEM. (H. 5559; 3/27/74; 75 pp. printed.) Selected states’ all purpose ID cards. (5/3/74; 2 pp. typed.) States’ public relations service. (6/5/74; 3 pp. typed.) Mass, and selected states’energy related laws. (9/13/74; 1 p. typed &encl.; 10/10/74; 1 p. typed & end.) A STATE OMBUDSMAN. (H. 5392; 1/22/75; 81 pp. printed.) Political party control legislative and governor. (7/3/75; Ip. typed.) *THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST LAW AND THE SEPARATION OF POWERS. (H. 6475; 7/3/75; 179 pp. printed.) Observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday. (2/6/76; I p. typed & end.; 11/21/83; 1 p. typed & end.) "Sunset law” provisions. (5/3/76; I p. typed & end.; 8/5/76; 1 p. typed & end.; p. typed & end.; & end.; 9/9/76; I p. typed 10/15/76; I 5/ 19/77; I p. typed & end.; 8/9/77; 2 pp. typed & end.; 1/30/78; 1 p. & typed & end.; typed & end.; 3/31/78; I p. typed end.; 10/24/78; I p. 7/24/87; 7 pp. typed.) typed.) Disability retirement provisions selected states. (6/14/76; 26 pp. (H. 5200; 65 A PLANNED PROGRAM BUDGET SYSTEM. 6/30/76; pp. printed.) REGULATION OF DEALERS IN EQUITIES. (H. 5638; 3/16/77; 48 pp printed.) ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION OF STATE AGENCIES REG- ULATING MOTOR VEHICLES. (H. 5811; 4/13/77; 59 pp, printed.) 3 pp. typed.) Mass. Workmen’s Compensation statute. (5/25/77; in-state bidders. (6/14/77; p. typed.) State laws authorizing preference to I typed.) Confirmation of executive/judicial appointments. (9/27/77; I p. 5 State capital city relocations. (11/16/77; pp. typed.) Governor’s amendatory powers. (1/13/78; I p. typed & end.) (1/25/78; 2 pp. typed & end.) General powers of the Governor of Mass. 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 73

Indexing” of states’ income taxes. (6/13/79; 2 pp. typed & end.; 10/9 80; 1 p. typed & end.) Legislature’s amendatory powers re state budget. (6/28/79; 5 pp. typed & end.) Governor’s item veto power re capital outlay programs. (12/14/79; 2 pp typed.) FISCAL IMPACT OF STATE ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS (H. 5954; 2/13/80; 50 pp. printed.) State-owned aircraft regulation. (3/ 19/80; 1 p. typed & end.) LIMITING TAXATION AND SPENDING BY STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. (H. 6743; 6/10/80; 407 pp. printed.) Mass. Film Bureau. (6/27/80; I p. typed & end.) Use of state vehicles by state personnel (7/15/80; 1 p. typed & end.) Insurance of state vehicles. (7/16; 80; Ip. typed & end.) State assumption of welfare costs. (2 13/81; 5 pp. typed.) GUBERNATORIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS. (H. 6557; 4 3/81; 164 pp printed.) Municipal secession and annexation procedures. (7 24 81; 2 pp. typed.) Confirmation of executive nominations. (7, 28/81; 2 pp. typed.) State public power authorities, (8/7 81; I p, typed & end.) Overtime payments to Mass, managerial employees. (10 7 / 81; 3 pp. typed.) Powers and duties of Justices of the Peace. (I I 22/82; 7 pp. typed & end.) PLANT CLOSINGS. (S. 2162; 6/30, 83; 110 pp. printed.) Mass, tax revenues by source and expenditure category fiscal 1983. (9 22/83; I p. typed & end.) State revenue and local aid data 2d Plymouth District. (I 20 84; 3 pp typed.) Mass, state census and ethnic populations. (9/10/84; 5 pp. typed.) Powers of public authorities. (5/14/85; 1 p. typed & end.) Satellites and antennae on state-owned property. (10 15/85; 1 p. typed & end.) Funding state parks. (3/19/86; 2 pp. typed & end.) Recent actions in states re official review of salaries of certain public officials. (6/24/86; 1 p. typed & 6 pp. survey.) Elected officials serving terms of more than four years, survey of state (7/1/86; 2 pp. typed & 7 pp. table.) Licensure for foreign medical school graduates, seven state survey. (11 86; 5 pp. typed.) 74 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

‘Sunset Laws”; executive branch reorganization. (7/24/87; 7 pp. typed.) Proposals to regulate pit bulls and other vicious dogs. (7/28/87; 1 p. typed & selected references.) GARCIA I . SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN TRANSITAUTHOR- ITY; The Decline and Fall of State Sovereignty (H. 6133; 9/30/87; 75 pp. printed.)

Health and Hospitals

*THE PRACTICE OE NURSING IN THE COMMONWEALTH. (S. 545; 2/10/56; 102 pp. printed.) BOARDS OF REGISTRATION FOR CHIROPRACTORS, ELEC- TROLOGISTS AND SANITARIANS. (H. 2725; 2/21/56; 97 pp. printed.) COMPULSORY CONFINEMENT OF ADVANCED TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS. (S. 690; 5/28/56; 28 pp. printed.) ESTABLISHMENT OF A UNIFORM SANITARY CODE FOR THE COMMONWEALTH. (H. 2833; 1/28/57; 44 pp. printed.) INCENTIVE PAYMENTS FOR STATE MENTAL PATIENTS. (H 2819; 12/16/57; 22 pp. printed.) ORGANIZATION AND COSTS OF TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITALS AND ADMISSION OF CHRONIC DISEASE CASES. (H. 2966; 2/ 3/58; 58 pp. printed.) AIR POLLUTION IN THE METROPOLITAN BOSTON AREA. (S. 495; 2/5/60; 52 pp, printed.) HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CARE FOR RETIRED PERSONS. (S 526; 2 24 60; 100 pp. printed.) ESTABLISHMENT OF NURSING COURSE OF TRAINING AT SOL- DIERS’ HOME AND LEMUEL SHATTUCK HOSPITAL. (S. 510; I 25/61; 77 pp. printed.) REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE CARE OF MENTAL PATIENTS: A COMPILATION OF STATE PROGRAMS AND POLICIES. (H. 3380; 2 19/62: 81 pp, printed.) FIRST INTERIM REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMISSION ON NURS- ING HOMES. (S. 760; 3/1/63; 167 pp. printed.) Prepared with Research Bureau assistance SECOND INTERIM REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMISSION ON 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 75

NURSING HOMES. (S. 970; 7/1/63; 90 pp. printed.) Prepared with Research Bureau assistance. THIRD INTERIM REPORT OF SPECIAL COM MISSION ON NURS- ING HOMES. (S. 634; 1/24/64; 14pp. printed.) Prepared with Research Bureau assistance. COMBINING STATE DEPARTMENTS OF PUBLIC WELFARE, PUBLIC HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH. (S. 850; 3/25/64; 41 pp. printed.) An anatomical gift law for Mass. (4/18/66; 35 pp. mimeo.) WATER SHORTAGE AND INDUSTRIAL WATER USE AND REUSE. (S. 930; 4/27/66; 163 pp. printed.) Mass, abortion laws. (7/21 /66; 3 pp. typed; 8/17/67; 2 pp. typed & end.; 11/9/70; 1 p. typed & end.; 10/4/71; 4 pp. typed; 5/4/72; I p. typed & end.; 3/5/75; I p. typed & end.) Licensing of dental mechanics. (1/16/67; I p. typed.) Federal regulations re children’s aspirin. (2/21/67; I p. typed & end.) Group hospital insurance in Mass. (3/23/67; 2 pp. typed.) Abatement of drug abuses. (2/1/68; 1 p. typed.) Handicapped children in Mass, schools. (4/4/68; 2 pp. typed.) Public health administration. (9/16/68; 2 pp. typed.) STATE PROGRAMS FOR THE PREVENTION OF MALNUTRI- TION. (S. 1283; 2/28/69; 69 pp. printed.) Western Mass. Hospital wing. (3/29/69; 2 pp. typed & end.) Mass, medicaid program. (4/10/69; 2 pp. typed.) Treatment of chronic renal diseases. (4/29/69; 2 pp. typed.) State action re drug overcharge. (8/1/69; I p. typed.) List of doctors and clinics and memos re treatment oi drug addicts. (3 23 70; 2 pp. typed & end.) Hearing conservation. (6/29/70; 2 pp. typed & end.) Air quality standards. (7/13/70; 2 pp. questionnaire.) Venereal disease laws. (9/3/70; 1 p. typed & end.) Registration of foreign medical school graduates. (7/15/71; 2 pp. typed.) Children’s flammable clothing. (11/10/71; 5 pp. mimeo & end.) Nursing homes proposals. (12/16/71; 3 pp. typed & end.) Advertising of drugs and medicine. (11/10/72; 2 pp. typed.) Labelling of food and dairy products. (5/30/73; I p. typed.) Administration of alcoholism law. (10/23/73; 2 pp. typed.) 76 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Minors’ consent for medical treatment. (12/20/73; 5 pp. typed.) Noise control. (3/7/74; 1 p. typed & end.) CERTIFICATE OF NEED AND A UNIFIED STATE HOSPITAL SYS- TEM. (H. 5559; 3/27/74; 75 pp. printed.) Psychotropic drugs. (5/14/74; 1 p. typed & end.) Lead poison prevention statutes. (8/22/74; 1 p. typed & end.) town City and hospital building authorities. (10/3/74; 2 pp. typed & end.) State control of prescription blank thefts. (1/20/75; 2 pp. typed.) “Open dating” of food products. (2/13/75; 1 p. typed.) Adult day health care. (3/25/75; I p. typed & end.) Examination and licensure fees for dentists, physicians and lawyers. (3/31 75; 1 p. typed & end.) Oregon aerosol spray ban law. (8/6/75; I p. typed & end.) Meat and poultry inspection. (5/26/76; 1 p. typed.) Anti-choking devices in restaurants. (7/16/76; 1 p. typed.) State Medical School. (1/21/77; Ip. questionnaire.) Parental consent for minors’ abortions. (2/3/77; I p. typed & end.) State laws re continuing medical education. (6/13/77; I p. typed & end.) U.S. Supreme Court decision re medicaid funds for abortions. (7/27/77; I p. typed & end.) THE REIMBURSEMENT OF MUNICIPAL HOSPITALS FOR GEN- ERAL RELIEF CARE. (S. 1949; 10/13/77; 59 pp. printed.) THE DEFINITION OF DEATH AND THE “LIVING WILL”. (H. 5380; 3/8/78; 72 pp. printed.) Infant hearing screening program, (4/13/78; I p. typed.) State statutes re “Pap” tests. (9/13/78; 2 pp. typed.) Venereal disease prevention programs in Mass. (2/26/79; 2 pp. typed.) Hazardous waste emergencies (3/22/79; I p. typed.) Hazardous wastes and water supplies. (5/30/79; 2 pp. typed.) Methods of hazardous waste disposal. (6/6/79; 2 pp, typed & end.) The practice of nurse-midwifery. (7/10/79; 2 pp. typed; 10/17/80; I p. typed

& end.) Recent legislative action re “right-to-die”. (10/4/79; I p. mimeo & end.) 1979 legislation re teachers, police, firefighters, nurses, veterans and the elderly. (11/27/79; 6 pp. typed.) States’ legalizing medical use of marijuana. (6/25/80; 1 p. typed.) CRIMINAL AND FRAUDULENT VICTIMIZATION OF THE ELDERLY. (H. 6556; 3/30/81; 99 pp. printed.) 19881 HOUSE No. 2000 77

Smoking in public places. (9/29/81; I p. typed & end.) Status of “Living Will” legislation in Mass. (11/23/81; I p. typed.) Microwave communication network towers. (1/12/82; 2 pp. typed.) Organization of Special Commission studying “Agent Orange". (6/2/82; 1 p. typed & end.) Statutory citations for minors’consent to medical treatment. (8/ 2/82; 2 pp typed.) Patients’ rights in health care institutions. (8/27/82; 1 p. typed & end.) Use of sodium hypochlorite in sewage treatment. (7/8/83; 2 pp. typed & end.) Licensing of midwives and physicians’ assistants. (5 31 84; I p. typed.) Legislative history of Balance Billing act. (3/26/85; 3 pp. typed & end.) Generic drug cost savings pass-on laws. (6 I 1/85; I p. typed & ends.) Fraudulent Medicaid claims. (10/2/85; 2 pp. typed.) “AlDS”testing laws; California, Florida & Wisconsin. (10/17/85; I p. typed & end.; 10/21/85; I p. typed & end.) Authorization to operate public hospitals on a revolving fund. (II 15 85; 3 pp. typed.) Massachusetts laws and regulations related to asbestos. (2 20 86; 2 pp typed & end.) Limitations on Christian Science practitioners re reimbursement for certain treatments. (4/10/86; 2 pp. typed.) Blue Cross/Blue Shield income disbursements for claims and expenses 1981-85. (5/12/86; 1 p, typed & table.) Massachusetts case law re “brain death”. (7/10/86; I p. typed & end.) Requirements of Mass, law re “nurses’ aides” or similar patient care assistants. (7/15/86; 2 pp. typed.) Medical malpractice insurance issues. (2/10/86; I p, typed & end.; 3/4 86 and 4/8/86; bibliographical materials.) Medical malpractice insurance proposals. (7/17/86; I p. typed & end.; 7/ 23/86; Supplement; Ip. typed & end.; 8/1 /86, statute: C. 351 ot 1986.) Mass, law re “duty to warn” as applied to liability of therapists or counselors. (8/27/86; 2 pp. typed & end.; 9/30/86; Supplement; 1 p. typed & end.) Burn injuries in Mass, caused by fireworks or firecrackers, 1984-86. (9 24 86; 2 pp. typed & end.) “Right-to-die” issue expounded by Supreme Judicial Court in Broph \ 78 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

New England Sinai Hospital, Mass. Adv. Sh. (1986). (9/25/86.) Licensure of foreign medical school graduates, seven state survey. (11/3/ 86; 5 pp. typed.) Suicide Prevention among adolescents; Unpublished report of Massachu- setts Interagency Task Force. May, 1986, (11/26/86; 1 p. typed & 16 pp. references.) Mass. Pesticide Board decision to ban chlordane. (2/13/87; 2 pp. typed & 18 pp. reference documents.) Selected publications re combating drug abuse among high school students (3/2/87; 3 pp. typed & 13 pp. references.) Mass, regulations re control of incinerator emissions. (4/24/87; 1 p. typed & 4 pp. references.) Status of lay midwives in Massachusetts. (5/13/87; 3 pp. typed.) Parental consent/ notification laws for minor’s abortion. (6/4/87; 1 p. typed & 18 pp. references.) Reducing exposure to lead paint poisoning. (8/24/87; 9/16/87; 1 p. typed and fact sheet & 72 pp. special commission report.) Methods and programs to treat sludge and ash disposal. (9/28/87; 3 pp. typed.) Legislative background to formation of regional health districts. (10/21 87; 3 pp. typed.) Universal Health Care. (1987; Special file on Legislative and Executive Proposals.)

Housing, Planning and Urban Affairs

ANDOTHER MINIMIZATION OF DAMAGE FROM HURRICANES NATURAL DISASTERS. (H. 2727, 2/22/56; 69 pp. printed.) AFTER SEVERE PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC DURING AND STORMS. (S. 630; 1/17/57; 52 pp. printed.) STATE LOANS TO LOCAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTCORPO- 3023; 39 pp. RATIONS (S 640; 1/21/57; 38 pp. printed; H. 2/20/61; 5829 of 1982, below.) minted See also S. 947 of 1965 and H. HISTORIC DISTRICTS WITHIN THE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMONWEALTH. (H. 2953; 1/25/57; 44 pp. printed.) SANITARY CODE FOR THE ESTABI ISHMENT OF A UNIFORM COMMONWEALTH. (H. 2833; 1/28/57; 44 pp. printed.) AIDED HOUSING PROJECTS. (H. LIQUIDATION OF FEDERALLY 2815; 1/31/57; 22 pp. printed.) 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 79

RELATING MASS. AND FEDERAL PUBLIC HOUSING LAWS. (S 451; 12/28/59; 66 pp. printed.) STATE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION CODES (S. 461; 1/11/60; 49 pp. printed.) AIR POLLUTION IN THE METROPOLITAN BOSTON AREA. (S 495; 2/5/60; 52 pp. printed.) CERTAIN LAND ASPECTS OF URBAN RENEWAL. (S. 465; 1/24 61; 50 pp. printed.) LOCAL ZONING AND PARTIAL TAKINGS UNDER EMINENT DOMAIN. (H. 3657; 1/15/62; 69 pp. printed.) CERTAIN DELAYS AND COSTS CONNECTED WITH URBAN RENEWAL. (S. 710; 1/28/63; 39 pp. printed.) INVOLVEMENT OF HOSPITALS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITU- TIONS IN URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAMS. (S. 729; 2/18/63; 50 pp. printed.) STATE COMPLIANCE WITH PROPOSALS OF FEDERAL ADVI- SORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELA- TIONS. (S. 860; 5/20/64; 82 pp. printed.) INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES AND TOWNS. (S. 947; 2/ 3/65; 74 pp. printed.) AN HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROGRAM FOR CITIES AND TOWNS. (S. 691; 10/10/66; 72 pp. printed.) Housing for the elderly. (1/6/67; 1 p. typed & end.) Boston Housing Authority rent increases. (5/1/67; I p. typed.) RESTRICTING THE ZONING POWER TO CITY AND COUNTY GOVERNMENTS. (S. 1133; 4/3/68; 196 pp. printed.) Mobile homes. (7/11/68; I p. typed & end.) State aid for urban renewal. (7/12/68; 2 pp. typed & end.) Rent control. (8/16/68; 12 pp. typed; 4/27/73; I p. typed & end.; 7,29 75; I p. typed & end; 6/14/79; I p. typed & end.) SELECTED PROBLEMS OF URBAN REHABILITATION IN MASS. (S. 1540; 7/30/69; 243 pp. printed.) Hawaiian land use control act. (8/20/69; I p. typed & end.) States’action re urban problems and model cities. (9/2/69; 10 pp. mimeo.) New towns in Great Britain. (11/14/69; 9 pp. mimeo.) Tenants security deposits. (12/4/69; 1 p. typed; 11/5/70; 1 p. typed & end.) REGIONAL GOVERNMENT. (H. 4988; 1/26/70; 136 pp. printed.) HOUSING AND CODE ENFORCEMENT. (H. 6084; 7/29/70; 116 pp printed.) 80 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

NEW TOWNS. (H. 6192; 7/29/70; 327 pp. printed.) 1968-69 MDC bond issues. (8/28/70; 1 p. typed.) “Anti-Snob Zoning” Law and related problems. (12/2/70; 2 pp. typed; 2 17/72; I p. typed; 4/1/76; I p. typed.) Low-income housing referenda laws. (7/12/71; 2 pp. typed & end.; 8/31 71; 1 p. typed & end.) Randolph-Holbrook water supply. (10/25/73; 3 pp. typed; 2/11/75; 2 pp, typed.) Workload of Housing Appeals Committee. (11/8/73; 3 pp. typed.) Protection of older subdivision plans. (11 /29/ 73; 3 pp. typed.) A SUBDIVISION CONTROL ADMINISTRATOR. (H. 5722; 4/10/74; 38 pp. printed.) Mobile homeowners’ bill ofrights. (11/12/74; 1 p. typed & end.) Boston adult entertainment zoning ordinance. (12/5/74; 1 p. typed & end.; 2/14/75; I p. typed & end.) Mass, rental assistance program. (3/10/75; 2 pp. typed & end.) Methuen Housing Authority and School Committee. (4/10/75; I p. typed.) Inter-municipality land taking. (1/26/77; I p. typed.) Heating oil price and rent adjustments. (2/16/77; 3 pp. typed.) Mass, land use policy legislation, 1975-76. (8/26/77; 2 pp. typed & end.) Future status of Brockton water supply. (8/3/78; 2 pp, typed.) Landlords’ right of access to rental units. (9/28/78; 2 pp. typed; 8/19/79; 3 pp. typed; 7/16/85; 2 pp. typed & ends.) Mass. Community Development Finance Corp. (7/31/80; 2 pp. typed & end.) Public pension funds and the residential mortgage market. (2/19/81; 1 p. typed & end.) INDUSTRIAL REVENUE BOND FINANCING. (H. 5829; 12/10/81; 46 pp. printed.) Town planning board members’ terms. (1/7/82; 2 pp. typed.) Local governments’ adoption of smoke detector statute. (2/2/82; 2 pp. typed & end.) REGULATION OF HOME BUILDERS AND HOME IMPROVE- MENT CONTRACTORS. (H, 5881; 2/8/82; 68 pp. printed.) Local housing authority membership and the Home Rule Amendment. (6, 29/83; 5 pp. typed.) Statutory citations re landlord/tenant. (7/13/83; 2 pp. typed.) Interest on rental security deposits. (9/7/83; I p. typed & end.) 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 81

Abandoned housing and related proof of tax title. (3/15/84; 2 pp. typed.) Handicapped tenants’ rights re condominium conversions. (7/25/85; 1 p. typed & end.) Bonding authorization for construction of low-income housing under Housing Act of 1985. (3/4/85; 2 pp. typed.) Arguments commonly advanced in opposition to rent control laws. (10 9/87; 4 pp. typed.)

Human Services

REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENTOF HANDICAPPED PER- SONS. (H. 2790; 2/22/56; 125 pp. printed.) PUBLIC WELFARE AND OLD AGE ASSISTANCE. (H. 3070; 2 1 I 57; 82 pp. printed.) INCENTIVE PAYMENTS FOR STATE MENTAL PATIENTS. (H 2819; 12/ 16/57; 22 pp. printed.) HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CARE FOR RETIRED PERSONS. (S 526; 2/24/60; 100 pp. printed.) REDISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE BURDENS. (H. 3494; 1 /23/62; 36 pp. printed.) REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE CARE OF MENTAL PATIENTS: A COMPILATION OF STATE PROGRAMS AND POLICIES. (H 3380; 2/19 62; 81 pp. printed.) COMBINING STATE DEPARTMENTS OF PUBLIC WELFARE. PUBLIC HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH. (S. 850; 3 25 64; 41 pp. printed.) REDUCED FARES FOR THE ELDERLY. (S, 711; I 17 66; 43 pp printed.) Mass, abortion law. (7/21 66; 3 pp. typed; 8/17/67; 2 pp. typed & end.; 10/4/71; 4 pp. typed; 5/4/72; 1 p. typed & end.; 3 5 75; 1 p. typed & end.) Children’s financial responsibility under O.A.A. program. (I 19/67: I p typed & end.) State organization re Welfare, Correction and Parole Depts., and Youth Service Board. (2/9/67; 1 p. typed & end.) Licensing of marriage counselors. (2/23/67; 1 p. typed & end.) Child welfare programs. (5/12/67; 1 p. typed & end Aid for illegitimate children. (7/10/67; 1 p. typed & end.) 82 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

Abatement of drug abuses. (2/1/68; 1 p. typed.) Handicapped children in Mass, schools. (4/4/68; 2 pp. typed.) Legal counsel for indigents. (6/18/68; 1 p, typed; 9/25/68; I p. typed & end.) New York subsidized adoption law. (7/9/68; 1 p. typed & end.; 10/4/68 I p. typed.) Extra household funds for welfare recipients. (8/5/68; I p. typed.) Parental responsibility for support of children. (8/20/68; 1 p, typed & end.) Food stamp program. (10/10/68; I p. typed.) South Middlesex Opportunity Council. (1/15/69; 1 p. typed.) STATE PROGRAMS FOR THE PREVENTION OF MALNUTRI- TION. (S. 1283; 2/26/69; 69 pp. printed.) Mass, medicaid program. (4/10/69; 2 pp. typed.) Compensation of violent crime victims. (4/23/69; 1 p. typed; 8/5/71; 2 pp. typed; 10/1/71; 1 p. typed & end.; 4/18/72; 4 pp. typed & end.; 7/29/ 74; 1 p. typed; 12/13/74; 1 p. typed & end.; 5/15/75; 1 p. typed; 3/16/ 76; I p. typed & end.) Day care services for pre-school children. (10/9/69; I p. typed & end.) Federal welfare and revenue-sharing proposal. (8/20/69; 24 pp. mimeo.) List of doctors and clinics and memos re treatment of drug addicts. (3 23/70; 2 pp. typed & end.) School costs for foster children. (7/1/70; 1 p. typed.) Sexual psychopaths laws. (8/10/70; I p. typed & end.) Federal Manpower programs. (7/1/71; 26 pp. typed.) Selected state laws re prison industries. (7/2/71; 2 pp. typed.) Education programs for children with dyslexia. (7/9/71; I p. typed & end. ) Prison reform proposals. (7/30/71; 3 pp. typed.) Pre-nuptial counselling for teen-age marriages. (11/16/71; 3 pp. typed.) Welfare controls. (12 9/71; 1 p. typed and end.) Counselling assistance by clergymen. (11/29/72; 1 p. typed.) Collective bargaining by prisoners. (2 16/73; 1 p. typed & end.) Administration of alcoholism law. (10/23 73; 2 pp. typed.) & end.) Ex-offenders’ discrimination laws. (12/11/73; 1 p. typed Disqualifications prisoners’ work release. (1/11,74; 2 pp. typed.) Early Indian protective statutes. (1 31 74; p. typed.) I SYS CERTIFICATE OF NEED AND A UNIFIED STATE HOSPITAL IEM. (H. 5559; 3 27/74; 75 pp. printed.) pp. typed.) Basis for AFDC payments in Mass. (7/25/74; 2 Mass, alcoholism program. (11/9/74; 3 pp. typed.) 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 83

VOTING BY PRISONERS AND THE MENTALLY ILL. (H, 5360; 12 30/74; 77 pp. printed.) Adult day health care. (3/25/75; I p. typed & end.) Psychotherapist-patient privileged communication. (3/26/75; I p. typed & end.) Rehabilitative programs for drunken drivers. (4/28/75; I p. typed & end.) Handicapped and elderly pedestrian laws. (5/8/75; I p. typed & end.) Selected budgetary data on Mass, correctional institutions. (5/28/75; 2 pp. typed.) Elimination of certain categories of public welfare assistance. (9/22/75; I p, typed & end.) Civil parental responsibility laws. (12/6/75; 9 pp. mimeo.) Statutory, judicial and related materials re minors. (3/19/76; 6 pp. typed.) Parent locator services. (4/12/76; 1 p. typed.) Child abuse prevention. (4/15/76; 1 p. typed.) Charitable corporations. (5/21/76; 2 pp. typed.) Legislation re selected human services, 1960-76. (6/30/76; 4 pp. typed.) Prison industries legislation. (8/27/76; 1 p. typed & end.) Expungement of juvenile arrest records. (2/1/77; 2 pp. typed & end.) Mass, statutes concerning children and children’srights. (4/7/77; 1 p. typed & end.) Contempt proceedings in non-support cases. (4/27/77; I p. typed.) Unemployment benefits for pregnant workers. (5/3/77; folder of various state laws.) “Workfare” programs. (6/20/77; 2 pp. typed & end.) Community residential facilities for the mentally handicapped. (8/1/78; I p, typed & end.; 10/24/78; 1 p. typed & end.) Programs for physically or developmentally disabled offenders. (2/20/79; 1 p. typed.) CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CONTINUING CARE FA- CILITIES. (S. 1846, 2/28/79; 67 pp. printed.) Habitual juvenile offenders. (7/10/79; I p. typed & end.) Deinstitutionalization programs in Mass. (8/1/79; 2 pp. typed.) Constitutional issues re certain 1980 public welfare proposals. (1/28/80; 4 pp. typed & end.) Drug paraphernalia legislation. (3/27, 4/24, 5/5, 9/4 and 10/22/80; all I p. typed & end.; 7/15/81; 2 pp. typed.) Increased sentences for crimes against the elderly. (6/26/80; 1 p. typed & end.; 11/5/80; 3 pp. typed & end.) 84 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

New York youthful law. offender (9/12/80; 3 pp. typed & end.; 10/2/80; I p. typed & end.) State assumption of welfare costs. (2/13/81; 5 pp. typed.) REQUIRING PRIOR LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL OF CERTAIN CONSENT DECREES. (H. 6362; 3/5/81; 129 pp. printed.) Property tax deferral programs for the elderly. (3/12/81; 1 p. typed.) CRIMINAL AND FRAUDULENT VICTIMIZATION OF THE ELDERLY. (H. 6556; 3/30/81; 99 pp, printed.) Mass, statutes and 1981 proposals re restitution and community service sentencing. (7/8/81; 2 pp. typed.) Handicapped parking access and enforcement. (7/20/81; 3 pp, typed & end.)

Food donations to non-profit organizations. (5/10/82; I p. typed & end.) Insanity defense in criminal cases. (7/8/82; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass. Welfare Fraud Prevention statute. (12/1/82; I p. typed & end.; 12 15/82; I p. typed & end.) Handicapped drivers’“placard” system. (1/31/83; I p. typed & end.) Mental Health/ Retardation appropriations, expenditures and census: Con- necticut, New Hampshire and New Jersey. (4/8/83; 7 pp. typed.) ELDERLY WITNESSES. (H. 5658; 3/28/84; 60 pp. printed.) Motor vehicle licenses for the visually-impaired. (4/30/84; 1 p. typed & end.) PROTECTION OF CHILD VICTIM/WITNESSES IN ABUSE PRO- CEEDINGS. (H. 6204; 7/10/84; 52 pp. printed.) Mass, state census and ethnic populations. (9/10/84; 5 pp. typed.) Presumptive sentencing and prison population in New Jersey. (3/29/85; 2 pp. typed & end.; 4/3/85; 1 p. typed & ends.; and 4/9/85; I p. typed & ends.) Child care center liability insurance. (10/24/85; 1 p. typed & end.; 10/31 85; 1 p. typed & end.) Relevance of Mass, law regulating day care centers to Montessori pre- schools. (3/7/86; 2 pp. typed.) Massachusetts laws governing maternity leave. (3/14/86; 1 p. typed & end.) Governor’s Day Care Partnership Project. (3/31/86; I p. typed & end.) Reference materials on teenage suicide. (5/13/86; 1 p. typed & bibliography.) Data on suicide in Massachusetts lock-ups and detention centers, (11/7. 86; 1 p. typed & end.) 1988| HOUSE No. 2000 85

Nonmedical transportation services for the elderly and disabled. (2/20/86 2 pp. typed.) Use of public pension funds to promote social/economic goals. (7 7, 86; 2 pp. typed & end.) Suicide Prevention among adolescents: Unpublished report of Massachu- setts Interagency Task Force. May, 1986, (11/26/86; 1 p. typed & 16 pp. references.) Information re corporate sponsorship of child care facilities. (5/19/87; p. typed & 22 pp. references.) Proposals in other states re use of unemployment insurance funds for venture capital. (10/7/87; 10/19 87; Ip. typed & references.) Universal Health Care. (1987; Special file on Legislative and Executive Proposals.)

Judiciary and Leya! Profession

FOR DEPENDENTS OF JUDGES. (H 3000; 1 30 58; 31 pp. printed.) LAWS AND NFW'SMAN’S PRIVILEGE. (H. 2756; I 1 11 j 59; 33 pp. printed.) *INDEPENDEN 1 SYSTEM OF .1U YENILE COU RTS. (H. 3737; 3 7 62; 131 pp. printed.) Court suit re Mass, legislative apportionment. (4 25 63; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass, law re birth control. (3/30 65; 2 pp. typed; I 29 68; I p. typed & end.; 12/9, 69; 2 pp. typed & end.) State Supreme Court advisory opinions for Legislature. (8/18/65; 3 pp typed.) Mass, abortion laws. (7/21/66; 3 pp. typed; 8 17/67; 2 pp. typed & end.; 10/4/71; 4 pp. typed; 5/4 72; 1 p. typed & end.; 3/5/75; I p. typed & end.) Statutory authority for taxpayer suits, (7/28/66; I p. typed & end.) PUBLIC RECREATION ON PRIVATE LAND AND LANDOWNERS LI ABILITY. (S. I 136; 1,24/67; 47 pp. printed.) U.S. District Court opinions re Mass. Congressional Districts. (2/17/67 10 pp. mimeo; 10/3/67; 3 pp. mimeo.) Attachment of “homestead” interest. (3/6/67; 1 p. typed & end.) Four U.S. Supreme Court opinions re state legislative apportionments. (5 18/67; 8 pp. mimeo.) 86 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Mass. Supreme Court opinion re state legislative apportionments. (10/31; 67; 7 pp. mimeo.) Judicial criteria re apportionment ot Mass. House of Representatives. (12 1 /67; 5 pp. typed.) RULE-MAKING POWER OFTHE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT. (S. 911; 1/22/68; 40 pp. printed.) A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR MALPRACTICE AGAINST ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS. (S. 1050; 4/3/68; 48 pp. printed.) U.S. District Court decision re redistricling City of New Bedford. (4/17 68; 2 pp. mimeo.) Governmental immunity. (4/23/68; 1 p. typed; 3/20/70; 1 p. typed* end.; 9/5/74; 1 p. typed; 3/21/77; 1 p. typed & end.; 8/19/77; 1 p. typed & end.; 1/8/80; 3 pp. typed.) Mass. Supreme Court decision re House apportionment. (5/21/68; 4 pp. mimeo.) Mass. Supreme Court decision re House membership. (5/31/68; 3 pp mimeo.) Legal counsel for indigents. (6/18/68; I p, typed & end.; 9/25/68; 1 p. typed & end.) Radiation injury claims. (10/30/68; I p. typed.) Mass. Supreme Court opinion re multi-member state legislative districts in Boston. (10/30/68; 6 pp. mimeo.) Tortious water fluoridation suits. (3/10/69; 1 p. typed & end.) Compensation of violent crime victims. (4/23/69; 1 p. typed; 8/5/71; 2 pp. typed; 10/1/71; 1 p. typed & end.; 4/18/72; 4 pp. typed & end.; 7/29/ 74; 1 p. typed.; 12/13/74; I p. typed & end.; 5/15/75; 1 p. typed.) Mass. Supreme Court opinion re joint constitutional convention, (5/12 69; 5 pp. mimeo.) Appointment of court stenographers. (6/27/69; 1 p. typed & end.) JUDICIAL COMPENSATION AND RELATED BENEFITS. (H. 4989; 1/28/70; 102 pp. printed.) Selected legal maturity laws. (2/6/70; 2 pp. typed.) MANDATORY RETIREMENT OF JUDGES AT AGE 70. (H. 5108; 2 24/70; 34 pp. printed.) Dog leashing and related laws. (3/9/70; I p. typed & end.) Municipal liability for mob violence. (4/16/70; I p. typed & end.) Decisions re Anti-Aid Amendment. (6/18/70; 1 p. typed & end.) 19881 HOUSE - No. 2000 87

Bail reform. (8/11/70; 1 p. typed & end.; 9/4/70; 1 p. typed.) Liability of notaries public. (9/14/70; 1 p. typed.) Landowners’liability to snow mobile operators. (11/3/70; 1 p. typed & end.) LOWERING THE AGE OF MAJORITY. (S. 1378; 1/20/71; 52 pp. printed.) THE PRESERVATION OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. (H 5301; 4/7/71; 107 pp. printed.) Mass. Supreme Court decision re constitutionality of “no fault” auto insurance. (6/29/71; 44 pp. mimeo.) Age of majority. (3/30/72; 2 pp. typed & end.) Recreational landowners' liability. (9/18/72; 1 p. typed & end.) Jury systems. (10/5/72; 2 pp. typed.) Recent Mass. “Church and State” decisions and opinions. (4/11/73; 2 pp typed & end.) JUVENILE PROBATION SERVICES. (H. 6864; 5/21/73; 61 pp. printed.) Paternal surnaming of illegitimate children. (12/19/73; 11 pp. typed.) NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION OF PUBLIC NOTICES AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. (H. 5341; 2/13/74; 82 pp. printed.) Indian land holdings. (7/17/74; 3 pp. typed & end.; 9/20/74; 2 pp. typed

& end.)

1974amendment of the racial imbalance law. (2/11/75; 1 p. typed & end.) Psychotherapist-patient privileged communications. (3/26/75; I p. typed

& end.) Examination and licensure fees for dentists, physicians and lawyers. (3/31 75; I p. typed & end.) Judicial interpretation of Municipal Home Rule. (4 23/75; 3 pp. typed.) 1975 Minnesota name change law. (9/19/75; 2 pp. typed & end.) Choice of name at marriage. (10 1/75; I p. typed & end.) Civil parental responsibility laws, (12/16/75; 9 pp. mimeo; 4/ 12/79; I p typed & end.) Selected court filing fees. (2/24 76; 3 pp. typed & end.) Common-law marriages. (6/8/76; 1 p. typed & end.) Federal court decisions re political subdivisions in state legislative redistricting. (12/3/76; 3 pp. typed & end.) Mass. “Wrongful Death” statute. (1/13/77; I p. typed & end.) Background to amendments (8/4/86; I p. typed & end.) Central judicial administrative offices. (1/21/77; 1 p. typed & end.) Expungement of juvenile arrest records. (2/1/77; 2 pp. typed & end.) 88 HOUSE -No. 2000 [January

Parental consent for minors’ abortions. (2/3/77; 1 p. typed & end.) The “Earn-lt” program for indigent offenders. (2/28/77; 2 pp. typed.) Contempt proceedings in non-support cases. (4/27/77; 1 p. typed.) U.S. Supreme Court decisions re medicaid funds for abortions. (7/27/77; 1 p. typed & end.) Confirmation of executive/judicial appointments. (9/27/77; 1 p. typed.) THE DEFINITION OF DEATH AND THE “LIVING WILL”. (H. 5380; 3/8/78; 72 pp. printed.) Florida court decision re motor vehicle insurance surcharges. (3/13/78; 1 p. typed & end.) Hearing prior to medical malpractice action. (5/11/78; I p. typed & end.) Validity of “Denver Boot” anti-parking device. (5/17/78; 1 p. typed & end.) Attorney’s fees in “public interest" law suits. (12/13/78; 2 pp. questionnaire.) Women in Mass, judiciary and county offices. (8/3/79; 2 pp. typed.) History of women’s equal rights laws. (9/13/79; 7 pp. typed.) Recent legislative action re “right-to-die”. (10/4/79; 1 p. mimeo & end.) Mass, school prayer law of 1979. (6/23/80; 1 p. typed & end.) Federal court order in Hawaii redistricting case of 1964. (7/9/80; 2 pp typed.) REQUIRING PRIOR LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL OF CERTAIN CONSENT DECREES. (H. 6362; 3/5/81; 129 pp. printed.) CRIMINAL AND FRAUDULENT VICTIMIZATION OF THE ELD- ERLY. (H. 6556; 3/30/81; 99 pp. printed.) 60 pp AN ADMINISTRATIVE COURT SYSTEM. (H. 6600; 4/22/81; printed.) Election of judges. (5/6/81; 2 pp. typed & end.) contents. (6/3 State eminent domain powers over county buildings and 81; 2 pp. typed.) Mass, law re riparian rights on waterways. (6/5/81; 2 pp. typed.) & end.) Mass, equal rights amendment statutes. (7/28/81; 2 pp. typed Redemption rights and foreclosed property. (8/25/81; 2 pp. typed; 11/23 81; 3 pp. typed.) of “Living Will” legislation in Mass. (11/23/81; 1 p. typed.) Status 58 DETERMINATION OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT, (H. 5882; 2/16/82; pp. printed.) typed & end.) Insanity defense in criminal cases. (7/8/82; 1 p. medical treatment. (8/2/82; 2 pp. Statutory citations for minors’ consent to typed.) 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 89

Powers and duties of Justices of the Peace. (11/22/82; 7 pp. typed & end.) Impact of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on Mass, congressional districts (7/26/83; 3 pp. mimeo.) Case law re legislative rules. (9/29/83; 3 pp. typed & end.) Judicial opinions re legislative procedures and rules. (10/18/83; 25 pp mimeo.) Legislative rules and procedures 1978 Opinion of the Justices. (10/20 83; 2 pp. typed & end., and, 5 pp. typed.) Statutory and case interpretation of “form” vs. “substance”. (10/20/83; 4 pp. typed.) Establishing a Medical Court. (12/30/83; 1 p. typed & end.) ELDERLY WITNESSES. (H. 5658; 3/28/84; 60 pp. printed.) Punitive damages in tort actions. (4/9/84; 2 pp. typed.) Rights of heirs/next of kin to remains of deceased. (6 21/84; I p. typed & end.) PROTECTION OF CHILD VICTIM/WITNESSES IN ABUSE PRO- CEEDINGS. (H. 6204; 7/10/84; 52 pp. printed.) SPECIAL REPORT OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON RULES RELATIVE TO THE RULE-MAKING POWERS OF THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE GENERAL COURT. (S. 2500; 7 23 84; 347 pp. printed.) Prepared with Research Bureau assistance. Presumptive sentencing and prison population in New Jersey. (3/29 85; 2 pp. typed & end.; 4/3/85; I p. typed & end.; 4 19, 85; 1 p. typed & end.) Legislative intent. (4 4/85; 2 pp, typed; 9/23/85; I p. typed & I p. question naire.) Federal case law re candidates’ residency requirements. (4 9/85; 3 pp typed.) Conflict of interest law and lawyer/legislators. (5/1/85; I p. typed & end.) Mass. Supreme Court opinion re Newsmen’s Shield petition. (6/20/85; I p. typed & end.) Methods of naming constables in Massachusetts. (1/28/86; 5 pp, typed.) JUDICIAL SELECTION IN THE UNITED STATES. (H. 5492; 3/4/86; 129 pp. printed.) Structure, powers, duties and finances of Office of Sheriff. (8/6/86; 4 pp typed & end.) Mass, law re “duty to warn” as applied to liability of therapists or counselors. (8/27/86; 2 pp. typed & end,; 9/30/86; Supplement; I p. typed & end.) 90 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

“Right-to-die” issue expounded by Supreme Judicial Court in Brophy v.

New England Sinai Hospital, Mass. Adv. Sh (1986). (9/25/86.) Sobriety checkpoints to detect drunken drivers. (5/14/86; Analysis of statutory and case law; 8 pp. typed; Survey of practices in states; 12 pp. typed

& end.) Restrictions in Massachusetts upon use of lie detectors and similar equipment. (11/21/86; 3 pp. typed.) THE GRAND JURY. (S. 1626; 2/25/87; 84 pp. printed.) Disposition of property seized from illegal drug activity. 3/16/87; 1 p. typed & 4 pp. references.) JUDICIAL CONDUCT PROCEEDINGS. A Privileged Sanctuary? (Research in Brief 87-1; 4/28/87; 25 pp. offset.) Work Release Programs administered by county sheriffs in Mass, and elsewhere. (5/18/87; 2 pp. typed & 40 pp. references.) Parental consent/ notification laws for minor’s abortion. (6/4/87; 1 p. typed & 18 pp. references.) ALTERNATIVE SENTENCING. (S. 2061; 9/30/87; 55 pp. printed.) GARCIA V. SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN TRANSITAUTHOR- 75 ITY: The Decline and Fall of State Sovereignty (H. 6133; 9/30/87; pp; printed.)

Labor and Professions

CHIROPRACTORS, ELECTROL- BOARD OF REGISTRATION FOR 97 pp. printed.) AND SANITARIANS. (H. 2725; 2/1/56; OGISTS PER- REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF HANDICAPPED 125 printed.) SONS. (H. 2790; 2/22/56; pp. _ SURPLUS IN OLDER AGE MEANS OF ABSORBING THE LABOR GROUPS (H. 3000; 2/12/57; 64 pp. printed.) (S. 655; 9/13/63; 94 pp. PRDMTE EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES. law to non-profit INSTI extending labor relations TUTIONS. (S. 744; 1/23/64; 78 pp. printed.) 1 p. typed.) Licensing of dental mechanics. (1/16/67; I p. type icensing of marriage counselors. (2/23/67, L pnnteT) MIGRATORY LABOR. (S. .303; 5/31/67.53 PP . p. typed; 11/9/71. 1 P- typed.) Electrical linemen safety. (3/20/68; I 1988| HOUSE - No. 2000 91

A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR MALPRACTICE AGAINST ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS. (S. 1050;4 3/68: 48 pp. printed.) Strikers’unemployment benefits. (6/5/68; 1 p. typed & end.) Management “lockout” of workers. (6/11/68; I p. typed.) Manual labor by female employees. (8/27/68; 1 p. typed.) Radiation injury claims. (10/30/68; I p. typed.) Occupational licensing boards. (1/22/69; 1 p. typed & end.; 12/10/70; 1 p. typed & questionnaire; 5/30/75; I p. typed.) State labor department. (1 / 26/ 70; I p. typed & end.) Selected aspects of Mass. Health, Welfare and Retirement Trust Fund ad ministration. (8/4/70; 3 pp. typed.) Unemployment compensation and industrial “lockouts”. (4/27/71; 6 pp typed.) Compensation of Mass. Boards of Registration. (8/16/71; 2 pp. typed.) Migratory labor law. (1/25/72; 2 pp. typed.) EQUAL RIGHTS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. (S, 1537; 6/16 72; 49 pp. printed.) Collective bargaining by prisoners. (2/16/73; I p. typed & end.) Federal bonding of ex-convicts. (10/26/73; 1 p. typed & end.) Ex-offenders’discrimination laws. (12/11/73; 1 p. typed & end.) Private pension fund legislation. (12/17/73; 1 p. typed & end.) Examination and licensure fees for dentists, physicians and lawyers. (3/31 75; 1 p. typed & end.) California regulation of motor vehicle repair shops. (4/9/75; I p. typed & end.) Regulation of massage parlors. (3/5/ 76; 1 p. typed & end.; 10/12/76; 1 p. typed & end.; 1/27/77; folder o material.) Licensure of professions in Mass. (10 19/76; I p. typed & end.) Unemployment benefits for pregnant workers. (5/3/77; folder of various state laws.) Mass. Workmen’s Compensation statute. (5 22 77; 3 pp. typed.) State laws re continuing medical education. (6/13/77; I p. typed & end.) Unemployment compensation and sexual harassment, (3/22/78; 1 p. typed & end.) States’ licensing of barbers. (5/2/79; I p. typed & end.) History of women’s equal rights laws. (9/13/79; 7 pp. typed.) 92 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

New England states' laws re auctioneers. (12/27/79; 2 pp. typed & end.) Workmen’s Compensation maximum death benefits. (7/24/80; 3 pp. typed & end.)

Regulating home building contractors. (5/4/81; 2 pp. typed & end. See also H. 5881 of 1982, below.) Mass, equal rights amendment statutes. (7/28/81; 2 pp. typed & end.) REGULATION OF HOME BUILDERS AND HOME IMPROVE- MENT CONTRACTORS. (H. 5881; 2/8/82; 68 pp. printed.) PLANT CLOSINGS. (S. 2162; 6/30/83; 110 pp. printed.) Single agency responsibility for job-training programs. (4/6/84; 5 pp. typed.) Licensing of midwives and physicians’ assistants. (5/31/84; 1 p. typed.) Comparable worth. (4/4/85; folder of materials.) Highlights of Workers’ Compensation Reform Bill. (1/16/86; 1 p. typed & 11 pp. summary.) Massachusetts laws governing maternity leave. (3/14/86; 1 p. typed & end.) Limitations on Christian Science practitioners re reimbursement for certain treatments. (4/10/86; 2 pp. typed.) Restrictions in Massachusetts upon use of lie detectors and similar equipment. (11/21/86; 3 pp. typed.) Status of lay midwives in Massachusetts. (5/13/87; 3 pp. typed.) Information re corporate sponsorship of child care facilities. (5/19/87, 1 p. typed & 22 pp. references.) DRUG TESTING. Test Tubes and Jobs. (Research in Brief 87-2; 6/18 87; 25 pp. offset.) p. typed Employee involvement and ownership in Massachusetts. (7/3/87; 1 for duplication.) & 18 pp. reference document not available I lunds for Proposals in other states re use of unemployment insurance & references.) venture capital. (10/7/87; 10/19/87; 1 p. typed and Executive Universal Health Care. (1987; Special file on Legislative Proposals.)

Law Enforcement

(S. 525; 2/24/60; 59 *LEGAL HOLIDAYS AND THEIR OBSERVANCE. pp, printed.) , 4/12/62; 4 jpp typed; Mass. “Sunday Law”. (3/16/62; 4 pp. typed; pp. 7/24 and 7/30/62; 4 pp. typed; 1/28/66; 2 typed, 2/15/7 , of material.) 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 93

* IDENTIFICATION CARDS FOR LIQUOR PURCHASERS. (S. 692; I 29/64; 52 pp. printed.) STATE POLICE PROMOTIONS. (S. ! 140; 6/30/65; 90 pp. printed.) State organization re Welfare, Correction and Parole Depts., and Youth Service Board. (2/9/67; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass. Crime Commissions of 1953 and 1962. (5/17/67; 2 pp. typed & end.) Selected police salaries in Mass. (6/26/67; I p. typed & end.) MASSACHUSETTS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY SAFETY ACT OF 1966. (S. 980; 1/20/68; 77 pp. printed.) Witness immunity statutes. (2/26/68; 1 p. typed & end.) Reorganization plan re state public safety agencies. (6/16/68; 17 pp mimeo.) Reserve police officers in selected cities. (7/11/68; I p, typed.) Police officers’wages and training. (9/16/68; 1 p. typed & end.) “Stop and frisk” law. (4/24/69; I p. typed & end.) Penalties for serious traffic violations. (7/23/69; 2 pp. typed & end.) Attorney-General efforts re organized crime. (10/9/69; I p. typed & end.) States’campus disorder legislation. (10/10/69; I p. typed & end.; I 29 70; 2 pp. typed; 8/10/70; I p. typed & end.) Pardons and parole powers. (12/3/69; 4 pp. typed & list of citations.) Police departments in towns. (8/4/70; I p. typed & end.) Appointment of probation officers. (3/2/71; I p. typed & end.) Appointive powers of police and fire chiefs. (6/8/71; I p. typed & end.) Mass, implied consent law. (10/20/71; 2 pp, typed.) Bomb scares. (4/7/72; 1 p. typed & end.) Hitchhiking. (3/12/73; I p. typed & end.) JUVENILE PROBATION SERVICES. (H. 6864; 5/21 73; 61 pp. printed.) Illegal use of records and tape recordings. (5/22/73; I p. typed.) State laws re small bore firearms. (4/11/74; 1 p. typed & end.) Selected states’ all purpose ID cards, (5/3, 74; 2 pp. typed.) Boston adult entertainment zoning ordinance. (12/5/74; 1 p. typed & end 2/14/75; I p. typed & end.) State control of prescription blank thefts. (1/20/75; 2 pp. typed.) Mass, obscenity statute. (1/30 p. typed & enc 75; I p. typed

& end.) Baltimore gun bounty program. (2 ' 1 75; I p. typed & end.) New England state police compact 2/19/75; I p. typed & end Mass, rape statute. (2/24/75; I p. typed & end.) 94 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

COMMERCIAL BRIBERY. (H. 5533; 2/26/75; 40 pp. printed.) Lower drinking age and highway accidents. (2/28/75; 2 pp. typed.) Florida decriminalization of certain traffic offenses. (3/21/75; 1 p. typed & end.) 1975 capital punishment legislation. (4/25/75; 1 p. typed & end.; 5/2/75; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass, rehabilitation programs for drunken drivers. (4/28/75; 1 p. typed.) Mass, gun control laws. (7/25/75; 1 p. typed & end.) Motor vehicle theft statutes, by state. (12/18/75; 1 p. typed & end.) VANDALISM OF PUBLIC PROPERTY. (H. 4951; 5/19/76; 101 pp printed.) Motorcycle helmet law. (6/27/77; I p. typed.) Witness fee payments to police officers. (8/7/78; 2 pp. typed & end.) Selected datare lowered drinking age in Mass. (1/29/80; 1 p. typed & end.) CRIME ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS. (H. 5955; 2/13 80; 45 pp. printed.) Drug paraphernalia legislation. (3/27, 4/3, 4/24, 5/5, 9/4, 10/6/80; all 1 p. typed & end.; 7/15/81; 2 pp. typed.) CIGARETTE BOOTLEGGING. (S. 2215; 4/16/80; 84 pp. printed.) & Increased sentences for crimes against the elderly. (6/26/80; 1 p. typed end.; I I 5, 80; 3 pp. typed & end. See also H. 6556 of 1981. below.) New York youthful offender law. (9/12/80; 2 pp. typed & end.; 10/2/80; 1 p. typed & end.) Appointment of patrolmen and centralized police communication systems in Mass, (10/2/80; I p. typed & end.) (11/20 80; p. typed State prison commitments under the Bartley-Fox law. 1 & end.) OF THE CRIMINAL AND FRAUDULENT VICTIMIZATION ELDERLY. (H. 6556; 3/30/81; 99 pp. printed.) typed & end., Child restraint mechanisms in motor vehicles. (4/28/81; I p. & end.; and 5/10/82; 5/26/81; 1 p. typed & end.; 4/20/82; I p. typed I p. typed & end.) community service Mass, statutes and 1981 proposals re restitution and sentencing. (7 8/81; 2 pp. typed.) (8/4/81; 2 pp. typed.) “Police-Fire” provisions of FY 82 budget bill. (2/2/82; 2 pp. type Local government adoption of smoke detector statutes. & end.) , , . „ statute. (10/25/82; p. typed & enc .) New Mexico capital punishment 1 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 95

Lethal injection method of capital punishment. (11/19/82; I p. typed & end.; 11/23/82; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass. Welfare Fraud Prevention statute. (12/1/82; 1 p. typed; 12/15/82; 1 p. typed & end.) Impact of higher drinking age. (3/15/83; 1 p. typed & end.) Casino gambling. (4/13/83; 335 pp. mimeo.) State laws re tinted windshields. (5/17/83; 1 p. typed & end.) Cigarette bootlegging and revenue loss. (3/6/84; 3 pp. typed.) Prohibition of alcoholic beverage advertising. (7/5/84; 1 p. typed & end.) Presumptive sentencing and prison population in New Jersey. (3/29/85; 2 pp. typed & end.; 4/3/85; 1 p. typed & end.; 4/19/85; 1 p. typed & end.) Selected states’ laws re banning of “stun” guns. (7/26/85; 2 pp. typed & end.; 8/20/85; I p. typed & end.) Methods of naming constables in Massachusetts. (1/28/86; 5 pp. typed.) Status oflitigation v. State re mandatory retirement ofpublic safety officers (7/8/86; 1 p. typed & 2 pp. Atty.-Gen. response.) Range of penalties for each quantity of a particular drug illegally possessed. (7/16/86; 1 p. typed.) PRISON FOR PROFIT. (H. 6225; 7/31/86; 114 pp. printed.) Structure, powers, duties and finances of Office of Sheriff. (8/6/86; 4 pp. typed & end.) Data on suicide in Massachusetts lock-ups and detention centers. (11/7 86; I p. typed & end.) Sobriety checkpoints to detect drunken drivers. (5/14/86; Analysis ofstatu- tory and case law, 8 pp. typed; Survey of practices in states; 1 2 pp. typed & end.) Disposition of property seized from illegal drug activity. (3/ 16/87; I p. typed & 4 pp. references.) Work Release Programs administered by county sheriffs in Mass, and elsewhere. (5/18/87; 2 pp. typed & 40 pp. references.) Summary data on national and local automobile theft. (8/1 1 / 87; 2 pp. typed & reference documents.)

Legislature

LEGISLATIVE ELECTRIC ROLL CALL SYSTEMS. (H. 2779; 1/18 57; 24 pp. printed. See also S. 480 of 1961, below.) 96 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

Legislative review of administrative agency regulations. (3/25/60; 2 pp. typed; 3/28/63; 6 pp. typed; 6/11/68; 19 pp. mimeo; 1/23/75; 2 pp. typed; 8/22/75; 2 pp. typed & end; 10/25/76; 1 p. typed & end.; 1/ 26/77; 2 pp. typed; 8/11/77; 1 p. typed & end.; 10/18/78; 5 pp. typed & end.) ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TO FACILITATE LEGISLATIVE PRO- CEDURES. (S. 480; 1/25/61; 50 pp. printed.) Reapportionment of General Court. (4/18/62; 1 p, typed.) State legislator’s salary and related data. (3/21/63; 22 pp. mimeo.) Reprinted in GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE re SALARIES OF MEMBERS OF GENERAL COURT, (H. 3422, Appendix A; 4/23/ 63; pp. 27-45.) ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF LEGISLATIVE PRINTING. (S. 850: 4/24/ 63; 63 pp. printed.) Court suit re Mass, legislative apportionment. (4/25/63; 1 p. typed & end.) Cost estimates on legislative proposals. (10/17/63; 1 p. typed & end.; 1/ 7/65; 2 pp. typed & end.; 1/29/70; 2 pp. typed & ends.; 11/3/77; 1 p & end. See typed & end.; 11/8/78; 3 pp. typed; 9/11/81; I p. typed also H. 4895 of 1967, below.) Legislative electric roll calls. (12/7/64; 2 pp. typed & end.; 10/20/71; Ip. typed & end.; 5/2/72; I p. typed & questionnaire.) REDUCTION OF WORKLOAD OF THE GENERAL COURT. (S. 990: 3 1 1/65; 86 pp. printed.) 65, Comparative legislative practices re motions to reconsider. (5/17 4pp typed.) 771; pp. STATE AND LOCAL APPORTIONMENTS. (S. 1/26/66; 122 printed.) 27 pp *FOUR-YEAR TERM FOR LEGISLATORS, (S. 784; 2/23/66; printed.) pp. typed. 8 Legislative procedure. (6/22/66; 2 pp. typed; 10/5/70; 12 & 2 pp. 72; 2 pp. typed; 3/12/73; I p. typed end.; 10/16/73; questionnaire; 3/6/74; 14 pp. mimeo; 7/17/74; 2 pp. typed.) typed; 3 10 72. - PP- Mass, legislative apportionment. (6/28/66; 2 pp. 7 ; . typed; 10/25/72; 4 pp. typed; 1/3/74; 14 pp. questionnaire; 6/7

AND OTHER 1 EGISLATIVE COMMITTEES IN MASSACHUSETTS STATES. (S. 1032; 12/1/66; 107 pp. printed.) SELECTED (H. 4895; FISCAL ESTIMATES FOR PROPOSED LEGISLATION. 1 25/67; 103 pp. printed.) 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 97

Federal census and state local apportionment. (2/7/67; 3 pp. questionnaire.) Legislative intern program. (3/21/67; I p. typed & end.) Electronic retrieval experiment of Mass. Legislature. (3/30/67; 1 p. typed & attach.) Mass, developments re “Dirksen Amendment". (4/3/67; 3 pp. typed & end.) *BILL SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS. (H. 5069; 4/26/67; 50 pp. printed.) Proposals of the Select Committee on Procedures of the British House of Commons. (5/9/67; 8 pp. mimeo.) Comparison of H. 3579 and S. 1167 re legislative apportionment. (5 15 67; 5 pp. mimeo & end.) Professional standards for Legislative Council staffs. (5/ 17/67; 3 pp. typed.) Four U.S. Supreme Court opinions re state legislative apportionment. (5 18/67; 8 pp. mimeo.) Mass, legislative committees and sessions. (6/1/67; 3 pp. typed; 1/ 15/68 3 pp. typed.) U.S. House of Representatives travel allowances. (7 5 67; I p. typed & end.) Mass. Supreme Court opinion re legislative apportionment. (10/31/67; pp. mimeo.) Employment of pages at legislative sessions. (11/9/67; I p. typed.) Judicial criteria re reapportionment of Mass. House of Representatives (12 1 67; 5 pp. typed.) RECESSES OF THE GENERAL COURT. (H. 4558; 2 28 68; 19 pp printed.) Status of legislative reapportionment in Mass. (4/4/68; 3 pp. typed & end.) Mass. Supreme Court decision re House apportionment. (5/21,68; 4 pp.

mimeo.) Mass. Supreme Court decision re House membership. (5/31/68; 3 pp mimeo.) States’population ratio per state representative. (6/6, 68; I p. mimeo.) Separate legislative buildings. (6/6/68; 1 p. typed.) Mass. Supreme Court decision re multi-member state legislative districts in Boston. (10/30/68; 5 pp. mimeo.) Educational levels of 1969 Mass, legislators. (1/6/69; 1 p. typed.) VACANCIES IN CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICES. (H. 4814; 2/26/69; 28 pp. printed.) 98 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

CHANGING THE LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT PROCEDURE AND REDUCING THE SIZE OFTHEHOUSEOF REPRESENTA- TIVES. (H. 5309; 4/16/69; 209 pp. printed.) (See also H. 7020 of 1973, below.) Mass. Supreme Court opinion re joint constitutional convention. (5/12 69; 5 pp. mimeo.) Legislative facilities. (8/21/69; 5 pp, typed.) Ballot questions and malapportioned legislatures. (12/16/69; 3 pp. typed & end.) Boston membership in House. (12/23/69; 2 pp. typed.) Duplicate legislative proposals. (3/16/70; 1 p. typed & questionnaire.) Legislative procedure re amendments. (5/29/70; 1 p. typed & questionnaire.) Legislative chaplains. (6/25/70; 2 pp. typed & end.) Legislative finance committees. (11/6/70; 1 p. typed.) Flexible size for state legislative bodies. (11/19/70; 2 pp. typed.) Legislative compensation commissions. (12/17/70; 1 p. typed.) Lobbying costs re local government legislation. (1/25/71; 4 pp. typed.) LEGISLATIVE POST AUDIT. (H. 6056; 2/17/71; 67 pp. printed.) Selection of legislative leaders. (5/20/71; 3 pp. typed.) Joint legislative standing committees. (7/12/71; 10 pp. typed.) Legislative Research Council reports and related statutes. (8/16/71; 4 pp. mimeo.) Legislative code of ethics. (3/23/72; 1 p. typed & end.) The “Shea” law. (4/14/72; 2 pp. typed.) Legislative promotion of constitutional amendments. (5/2/72; 23 pp. mimeo.) Mass, women legislators. (7/5/72; 6 pp, typed; 11/9/74; 3 pp. typed.) CHANGING THE SIZE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE CENSUS BASIS OF LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING (H. 7020; 5/30 73; 403 pp. printed.) State legislative apportionment commissions. (7/19/73; 4 pp. typed.) Workload of selected Mass, legislative committees. (12/5/73; 5 pp. typed.) Implementing census provisions of “House Cut” proposal. (1/30/74; 6 pp. typed; 12/10/74; 11 pp. mimeo.) 1973 General Court workload. (4/23/74; 1 p. typed.) (6/28/74; 21 Estimated cost of 1975 census under "House Cut" proposal. pp. typed.) 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 99

Legislative staff compensation. (12/3/74; I p. typed & questionnaire.) Legislative intent of selected 1890 election laws. (2/24/75; 2 pp. typed.) Legislative Research Council and Bureau operations and functions. (3/21 75; 3 pp. typed.) RESTRICTING THE APPLICATION OF STATE LAWS ADDING TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT COSTS. (H. 5841; 4/15/75; 163 pp. printed.) Possible changes in legislative redistricting requirements. (5/12/75; 3 pp. typed.) Political party control legislative and governor. (7/3/75; Ip. typed.) Separation of powers provisions. (1 / 26/76; 4 pp. typed & end.) Role of the legislature in collective bargaining processes. (2/5/76; 2 pp typed.) Biographical data re W, F. Hammond, Wampanoag Indian legislator. (4 8/76; 2 pp. typed & end.) “Sunset law” provisions. (5/3/76; I p. typed & end.; 8/5/76; 1 p. typed & end.; 9/9/76; 1 p. typed & end.; 10/15/76; 1 p. typed & end.; 5/ 19/77; I p. typed & end.; 8/9/77; 2 pp. typed & end.; 1/30/78; 1 p. typed & end.; 3/31/78; 1 p. typed & end.; 10/24/78; 1 p. typed & end.) N.Y. Decision re legislative committee powers. (6/14/76; I p. typed & end.) Amending process of Mass, bills. (6/14/76; 1 p. typed.) Attorneys serving in 75-76 General Court. (7/30/76; 1 p. typed & end.) Limitation on legislative terms. (10/12/76; 2 pp. typed.) Island county representation in the Massachusetts General Court. (12/28/ 76; 35 pp. mimeo.) Legislative appropriation of federal funds. (2/17/77; I p. typed & end.; 6 27/77; I p. typed & end.; 8/12/77; I p. typed & end.; 1/18/78; I p. typed & end.; 3/10/78; I p. typed & end.; 3/20/78; I p. typed & end.; 2 1/79; I p. typed & end.; 3/ 12/79; I p. typed & end.; 9/26/79; I p. typed & end.) Local government precinct changes and legislative redistricting. (4/ 19 77 3 pp. typed.) Non-voting island legislative delegates. (10/14/77; 2 pp. typed.) Apportionment, compensation and delegates in state legislatures. (12/6/ 77; 7 pp. typed.) Legislative anti-filibuster rules. (2/2/78, 2 pp. typed.) House of Representatives facilities. (3/15/78; I p. typed & folder of material.) Number of bills proposed, number enacted 1968-1978. (7/12 78; 2 pp. typed.) 100 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Pennsylvania decision re legislative appropriation of federal funds. (8/2 78; 2 pp. typed & end.) Legislative history and background of various “War Commissions”. (12 12/78; 3 pp. typed.) LEGISLATIVE CARRY-OVER PROCEDURES AND ALTERNA- TIVES. (H. 5911; 4/4/79; 178 pp. printed.) The Classification Amendment and shelf legislation. (4/10/79; 2 pp. typed.) Population ratio of state senators. (5/10/79; 3 pp. typed.) Per diem expense allowances for state legislators. (6/11/79; 1 p. typed & end.)

Legislature’s amendatory powers re state budget. (6/28/79; 1 p. typed & end.)

Legislative compensation, travel and retirement. (12/5/79; 2 pp, typed & end.; 12/28/79; 4 pp, typed & end.; 3/13/84; 2 pp. questionnaire.) Public funding of legislative elections. (4/10/80; 2 pp. typed & end.) Legislative sessions and output. (7/28/80; 3 pp. typed & end.) Selected states’ compensation for senators and days sat. (9/16/80; 1 p, typed.) REQUIRING PRIOR LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL OF CERTAIN CONSENT DECREES. (H. 6362; 3/5/81; 129 pp. printed.) State’s constitutional limitations on subject matter in legislative proposals (6/15/81; 2 pp. typed.) Constitutional and statutory questions on initiative petition re legislative organization. (9/15/81; 5 pp. typed & end.) DETERMINATION OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT. (H. 5882; 2/16/82; 58 pp. printed.) Legislative history of initiative constitutional amendment limiting state and local taxes. (2/22/82; 9 pp. mimeo.) Certain aspects of the reduction of the size of the Mass. House of Represen- tatives. (4/6/82; 3 pp. typed & end.) Organization of Special Commission studying “Agent Orange’. (6/2/82; I p. typed & end.) Legislative intent of agricultural/horticultural land assessment. (7/16 82, I p. typed.) Legislatures’ procedures on “moral obligation” bills. (10/7/82; 4 pp. typed.) Brockton senators and representatives (1883-1983). (1/24/83; 7 pp. typed.) Lawyer-legislators in the General Court. (2/18/83; 2 pp. typed.) 19881 HOUSE - No. 2000 101

USER FEES AND CHARGES. (H. 6120; 3/9 83; 91 pp. printed.) Two-thirds vote requirement for passage of legislation. (5, 12/83; 1 p. typed & questionnaire.) Limitation on legislative proposals. (7/ 19/83; 5 pp. typed & end.) U.S. Senate and House of Representatives rules re televising, photogra phing and broadcasting of proceedings. (7/25/83; 32 pp. mimeo.) Statutory legislative rules and procedures. (8, 17/83; 17 pp. mimeo; 10 13 83; 5 pp. typed.) Constitutionaland legal issues re the use ol lhe Initiative for legislative rules (8/26/83; 12 pp. mimeo.) Comments re plaintiff’s brief in Initiative petition suit. (I 1/8 83; 5 pp typed.) The first Black state legislator. (1 1 18 83; 1 p. typed & end.; 11 29 83 I p. typed & end.) Gubernatorial executive orders. (1 /27 84; 3 pp. typed.) Federal Constitutional Convention. (2 17 84; 3 pp. typed & end.) Legislative redistricting and the federal census criteria. (5 8 84; 6 pp typed.) Legislative history of the sales tax. (5 22 84; 2 pp. typed & end.) Congressional practices re riders on bills. (7 17 84; 15 pp. typed & end.)

SPECIAL REPORT OF I HE SENATE COMMITTEE ON RULES RET - ATIVE TO THE RULE-MAKING POWERS OF THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE GENERAL COURT. (S. 2500; 7 23 84; 347 pp. printed.) Prepared with Research Bureau assistance. Use of federal census for state legislative redistricting. (11, 20 84; 4 pp typed.) Final determination of contested legislative elections. (2/21 85; 2 pp typed.) fhe right of free petition and the legislative process. (2, 25/85; 7 pp. typed.) Legislative intent. (4 4/85; 2 pp. typed; 9/23/85; I p. typed & I p. question naire.) Conflict of interest law and lawyer, legislators. (5 1, 85; I p. typed & end.) 1985 state census and legislative redistricting. (5 16 85; 5 pp. typed.) Implications of U.S. District Court opinion in Banclemer v. Davis. (7 12 85; 3 pp. typed.) Mass. “House Cut” history and bibliography. (10 9 85; 6 pp. typed.) Varied approaches to legislative oversight and “veto" of proposed administrative rules. (4/15/86; 3 pp. typed.) 102 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Analysis ol arguments in Mac Govern v. Connolly (re redistricting) U.S District Court (D, Mass.) No. 86-1075-C. (6/19/86; 1 p. typed & 11 pp, memo; 9 18 86; court disposition.) Legislative power to amend or repeal initiative laws. (10/17/86; 3 pp. typed.)

Motor Vehicles & Transportation

FREQUENCY OF MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS BY AGES OF DRIVERS. (H. 2676; 2/10/56; 38 pp. printed.) LIMITATION, ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF MOTOR VE- HICLE EXCISE TAX. (S. 645; 1/21/58; 43 pp. printed.) REGIONAL AIRPORTS AND AERIAL APPROACHES. (S. 620; 1/22 58; 32 pp. printed.) GROSS WEIGHT OF CERTAIN MOTOR VEHICLES. (H. 2880; 1/20 60; 54 pp. printed.) STATE TAX AND OTHER RELIEF FOR COMMUTER RAIL- ROADS. (S. 535; 2/7/61; 99 pp. printed.) USE OF ZONE FARES IN MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES. (S. 520; 2 15/61; 35 pp. printed.) Pros and cons of Governor’s transportation plan. (6 3/64; 29 pp. mimeo.) REDUCED FARES FOR THE ELDERLY. (S. 711; 1/17/66; 43 pp printed.) Re-examination of elderly motor vehicle operators. (2/7/67; 1 p. typed.) HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION AND ABANDONED VEHICLES. (S. 1239; 3 29/67; 128 pp. printed.) 1967 motor vehicle insurance proposals. (10/5/67; I p. typed & end.; 1 17/ 68; 6 pp. mimeo.) Connecticut laws re stop signs on highways. (11/3/67; I p. typed & end.) Emergency highway communications systems, (11/21/67; 11 pp. mimeo.) Transportation authorities in Mass. (11/27/67; 1 p. typed.) REGULATION OF THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY. (S. 983; 12/27 67; 46 pp. printed.) MASSACHUSETTS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY SAFETY ACT OF 1966. (S. 980; 1/20/68; 77 pp. printed.) THE PROMOTION OF THE PORT OF BOSTON. (H. 4852; 6/5/68; 60 pp, printed.) Motorcycle personal salety equipment law. (9/16/68; 1 p. typed & end.) Organization ot Fraudulent Claims Board. (10/9/68; 5 pp. typed.) 1988) HOUSE - No. 2000 103

Penalties for serious traffic violations. (7/23/69; 2 pp. typed & end.) Off-street parking garages. (7/24/69; 1 p. mimeo.) Motor vehicle operator’s photo license system. (8/11/69; 1 p. typed & end.) School bus seat belts. (8/12/69; I p. typed.) MOTOR VEHICLE TITLE ACT. (S. 1280; 12/18/69; 30 pp. printed.) TAX EXEMPTION OF RAILROAD RIGHTS-OF-WAY. (S. 1429; 4 2/70; 53 pp. printed.) Puerto Rico automobile accident compensation law. (7/24/70; 1 p. typed & end.) “No fault” auto insurance. (8/31/70; 1 p. mimeo & end.; 9/30/70; 1 p typed; 10/15/71; I p. typed & end.; 10/27/71; 1 p. typed & end.; 6 30/72; 1 p. typed & end.; 7/30/74; 1 p. typed & end.) Deficit funding of selected mass transit systems. (5/12/71; 2 pp. typed.) Mass. Supreme Court decision re constitutionality of “no fault” auto insurance. (6/29/71; 44 pp. mimeo.) Motor vehicle vanity plates. (8/10/71; 11 pp. typed & end.) Mass, implied consent law. (10/20/71; 2 pp. typed.) Use of Highway Fund for mass transit. (5/3/72; 24 pp. mimeo.) Two-car family insurance. (2/5/73; I p. typed.) Hitchhiking. (3/12/73: I p. typed & end.) Rapid transit and commuter railroads. (7/5/73; 67 pp. mimeo.) Auto repair guarantees. (9/26/73; 1 p. typed.) Recreational trailers’excise tax. (11/27/73; 1 p. typed.) Reflectorized motor vehicle plates. (12/10/73; I p. typed.) RAILROAD SERVICE FROM BOSTON TO BROCKTON AND CAPE COD. (S. 1698; 3/27, 74; 37 pp. printed.) Blood type on motor vehicle operators’ licenses. (4 4/74; 1 p. typed & e 3 22/76; 1 p. typed.) Financial impact on City of Everett of Chapter 1140 of 1973. (4/10 74 pp. typed.) MASSACHUSETTS TRANSIT SYSTEMS AND AID PROGRAMS (H. 5996; 4/25/74; 217 pp. printed.) Federal transportation assistance programs, 1789-1973. (7/16/74; 24 pp

mimeo. Use of Highway Fund for other purposes, (1/28 75; 2 pp. typed.)

Constitutionality of 1& R use for highway lund aid. (2/25 ; 75; Ip. typed Lower drinking age and highway accidents. (2/28 75; 2 pp. typed Florida decriminalization of certain traffic offenses. (3/21/75; 1 p. typed

& end.) 104 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Mass, rehabilitative programs for drunken drivers. (4/28/75; 1 p. typed.) Railroad rights of way as recreational trails. (7/8/75; 1 p. typed & questionnaire.)

Funding of public transportation. (7/15/75; 3 pp. typed & end.) Mass, length limitation of tractor trailers. (8/8/75; 1 p. typed & end.) Motor vehicle emission controls programs. (11/10/76; 2 pp. typed & end.; 4/27/77; 4 pp. typed & end.; 6/20/77; 1 p. typed & end.) ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION OF STATE AGENCIES REGULATING MOTOR VEHICLES. (H. 5811; 4/13/77; 59 pp. printed.) Michigan rules re transportation of hazardous materials. (4/21/77; I p. typed & end.) Motorcycle helmet law. (6/27/77; 1 p. typed.) Prohibition of motor vehicles on Martha’s Vineyard. (10/28/77; 4 pp typed.) School bus safety. (2/21 /78; 7 pp. typed.) Florida court decision re motor vehicle insurance surcharges. (3/13/78; 1 p. typed & end.) Quartz-Halogen motor vehicle headlamps. (4/7/78; 2 pp. typed; 4/10/78; I p. typed; 5/17/78; I p. typed & end.) Validity of “Denver Boot” anti-parking device. (5/17/78; 1 p. typed & end.) Withdrawal of sale of premium gasoline in Maryland. (6/14/78; 1 p. typed & end.)

Michigan law re “lemon” motor vehicles. (10/12/78; 1 p. typed & end.) Anti-radar detection devices. (10/13/78; 1 p. typed & end.; 10/24/78; 1 p. typed & end.; 7/29/79; 1 p. typed & end.) Use of “Gasohol” in motor vehicles. (1/8/79; Ip. typed & end.) Laws re braking power of trucks. (3/20/79; 1 p. typed & end.; 3/22/79: I p. typed & end.) Use of headlamps in inclement weather. (4/24/79; 1 p. typed & end.) Ton-mileage taxes. (5/11/79; I p. typed & end.) CRIMES ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS. (H. 5955; 2 13/80; 45 pp. printed.) Use of state vehicles by state personnel. (7/15/80; 1 p. typed & end.) Insurance of state vehicles. (7/16/80; 1 p. typed & end.) Local taxes for mass transit systems. (11/13/80; 1 p. typed & end.; 11 19/80; 6 pp. typed; 12/1/80; 4 pp. typed.) Excise tax payment for auto registration. (2/2/81; 2 pp. typed.) 1988| HOUSE No. 2000 105

Child restraint mechanisms in motor vehicles. (4/28/81; I p. typed & end. 5/26/81; I p. typed & end.; 4/20/82; 1 p. typed & end.; 5/10/82; 1 p typed & end.) Traffic commissions in cities and large towns. (5/12/81; 3 pp. typed.) Petroleum products tax for mass transit. (5/20/81; 1 p. typed & end.; 6 23/81; I p. typed & end.) California aircraft noise standards. (6/9/81; 3 pp. typed & end.) Handicapped parking access and enforcement. (7/20/81; 3 pp. typed & end.) Tax incentives for gasohol production. (7/29/81; 1 p. typed.) Analysis/commentary re “Tregor” bill. (10/19/81; 65 pp. mimeo.) Temporary license plates. (6/28/82; I p. typed & end.) Handicapped drivers “placard” system. (1/31/83; 1 p. typed & end.) Motor vehicle “lemon” laws. (2/15/83; i p. typed & end.; 2/23/84; 1 p typed & questionnaire.) State laws re tinted windshields. (5 17/83; I p. typed & end.) Uninsured motorists’ insurance coverage data. (11/30,83; 1 p. typed & end.) Seat belts school buses. (2 3/84; 5 pp, typed.) Motor vehicle licenses for the visually impaired. (4/30/84; I p. typed & end.) Safety issues in fire-fighting vehicles. (10 15/84; Ip. typed & end.; 10 84; 1 p. typed & end.) An MBTA district retail sales tax. (4/16/85; 2 pp. typed.) Banning of “radar guns” use by police. (7/15/85; 1 p. typed & ends.) Massachusetts practice re fees and taxes related to motor vehicle registration, (5/22/86; 2 pp. typed & end.) Massachusetts practice re issuance of free number plates to certain classes (6/30/86; 2 pp. typed.) Exemption oftransit-related advertising to state outdoor advertising restrictions. (8/22/86; 2 pp. typed.) Nonmedical transportation services for the elderly and disabled. (2/20/86: 2 pp. typed.) Background and summary of repeal of mandatory seat belt law. (1/20/87 1 p. typed & 10 pp. reference documents.) Summary data on national and local automobile theft. (8/1 I / 87; 2 pp. typed & reference documents.) 106 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Public Employment

*CASH PAYMENTS FOR UNUSED SICK LEAVE. (H. 2777; 1/24/57; 16 pp. printed. See also S. 908 of 1968, below.) EXTENSION OF SOCIAL SECURITY TO MEMBERS OF PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEMS IN MASS. (H. 2849; 2/7/57; 47 pp. printed.) PRESUMPTION RELATIVE TO HEART DISEASE AND RETIRE- MENT (THE MASS. “HEART LAW”). (H. 3005; 2/7/58; 32 pp. printed.) CIVILSERVICE PERFORMANCE RATING. (H. 2655; 1/28/59; UOpp printed.) PROFESSIONAL STAFF SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS AT PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN MASS. (S. 550; 3/8/61; 52 pp. printed.) CONFLICT OF INTEREST. (S. 650; 5/15/61; 48 pp. printed; H. 3450; 1/24/62; 20 pp. printed. See also H. 6475 of 1975, below.) DUTIES OF LOCAL FIREFIGHTERS. (H. 3655; 1/24/62; 74 pp printed.) EXTENDING LABOR RELATIONS LAW TO NON-PROFIT INSTITUTIONS. (S. 744; 1/23/64; 78 pp. printed.) POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. (S. 951; 12/21/ 64; 36 pp. printed. See also H. 5343 of 1977, below.) PLACING COUNTY EMPLOYEES UNDER CIVIL SERVICE. (H. 3302; 12/14/64; 72 pp. printed.) STATE POLICE PROMOTIONS. (S. 1140; 6/30/65; 90 pp. printed.) REIMBURSEMENT OF LEGAL COSTS TO INDICTED PUBLIC OF- FICIALS. (H. 4636; 2/13/67; 19 pp. printed.) Powers of cities to increase salaries of officials. (2/14/67; 3 pp. typed & end.) Veterans’ preference under state civil service laws. (3/13/67; 2 pp. typed.) Firefighters and police pension plans. (4/12/67; 6 pp. mimeo; 1/18/68; 1 p. typed.) Mandatory retirement at age 70 for elected and appointed officials. (4/20, 67; 3 pp. typed.) Selected police salaries in Mass. (6/20/67; 1 p. typed & end.) Summary of “Kelly Bill” re Civil Service reform S. 1396 of 1967. (9/ 21 1 67; 8 pp. mimeo.) 1988| HOUSE No. 2000 107

CREDIT FOR UNUSED SICK LEAVE. (S. 908; 1/3/68; 30 pp. printed. ) State practice in hiring consultants. (7/8/68; I p. typed & end.) Reserve police officers in selected cities. (7/11/68; 1 p. typed.) Mass, ranking re state employees’ salaries. (7/19/68; 1 p. typed & end.) Police officers’ wages and training. (9/16/68; 1 p. typed & end.) COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EM PLOYEES. (H. 4746; 1 /14/69; 47 pp. printed Town employees as town meeting members. (5/7/69; 1 p. typed & end.) Hospitalization benefits for local government employees. (9/25/69; 1 p typed.) Police departments in towns. (8/4/ ’0; 1 p. typed & end.) Major legislation affecting teachers firefighters & police officers 1961-1970 (8/31/70; 7 pp. typed.) Firefighters’duty hours. (2/5/71; 1 p. typed.) Appointment of probation officers (3/2/71; 1 p. typed & end.) COMPULSORY ARBITRATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ LABOR DISPUTES. (H. 5249; 3/16/71; 82 pp. printed.) Appointive powers of police and fire chiefs. (6/8/71; 1 p. typed & end.) Local personnel boards. (6/24/71; 1 p. typed & end.) UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES (S. 1243; 12/8/71; 67 pp. printed.) Teachers and state employees legislation. (9/6/72; 6 pp. typed.) State and selected county employees. (10/3/72; 2 pp. typed.) Re-employment ofretired public employees. (1/22/73; 2 pp. typed.) Selection of town treasurers. (3/16/73; 1 p. typed.)

Deferred compensation for public employees. (12/11 / 73; Ip. typed & end.) Retirement credit for servicemen. (2/8/74; 9 pp. mimeo & end.; 4 17/74; 2 pp. typed & end.) Local tenure acts, 1964-1973. (2/22/74; 1 p. typed & end.) State employees’ use of privately owned auto. (3/20/74; 1 p. typed & end.) Professionalization of assessors in Maryland. (12, 16/74; I p. typed & end.) Public employees’collective bargaining law. (1/24/75; 1 p. typed.) CONFLICT OF INTEREST LAW AND THE SEPARATION OF POW- ERS. (H. 6475; 7'3/75; 179 pp, printed.) Role of the legislature in the collective bargaining process. (2/5/76; 2 pp typed & end.) Collective bargaining. (3/1/76; I p. typed & end.) Disability retirement provisions, selected states. (6/14/76; 26 pp. typed 108 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. (H. 5343; 12/29 76; 202 pp. printed.) Constitutionaland statutory citations re conflict of interest. (3/29/77; 4 pp. typed; 3/30/77; I p. typed.) Mass, state employees and retirees pay increases and average compensation (11/21/77; 2 pp. typed.) 1977 laws re police, firefighters, teachers, veterans and nurses. (4/10/78; 3 pp. typed.) ABCC employees retirement system. (6/26/78; 2 pp. typed.) Witness fee payments to police officers. (8/7/78; 2 pp. typed & end.) State employees’ salary increases. (8/10/78; 2 pp. typed & end.) The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA). 4 10/79; 3 pp. typed.) At-large town meeting member status for appointed town officials. (4/11 79; 3 pp. typed & end.) 1979 legislation re teachers, police, firefighters, nurses, veterans and the elderly. (11 /27/79; 6 pp. typed.) Military pay for school employees. (4/1/80; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass, law re teachers’ salaries in public schools. (7/29/80; 1 p. typed & end.) Appointment of patrolmen and centralized police communication systems in Mass. (10/2/80; 1 p. typed & end.) Public pension funds and the residential mortgage market. (2/19/81; 1 p, typed & end.) Civil Service Commission decision re fire-fighter reduction. (4/3/81; 1 p typed & end.) DECLINING ENROLLMENTS ANDTHE REDUCTION OFSCHOOL PERSONNEL. (H. 6734; 4/30/81; 67 pp, printed.) “Police-Fire” provisions of FYB2 budget bill. (8/4/81; 2 pp. typed & end.) Overtime payments to Mass, managerial employees. (10/7/81; 3 pp. typed.) Local education costs and teachers’salaries in Mass. (12/4/81; 2 pp, typed.) Redevelopment authority officials and employees as municipal employees (I 1/3/82; 2 pp. typed.) Employee suggestion award programs. (3/10/83; 2 pp. typed & end.) Teacher performance evaluation and related programs. (8/17/83; 1 p. typed & end.)

Flexible working hours for state employees. (10/27/83; 1 p. typed & end.) Comparable worth. (4/4/85; folder of materials.) 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 109

Law re solicitation of campaign funds by or from public employees. (2 3/86; 5 pp. typed & end.) Selected materials re pension reform legislation. (7/7/86; 2 pp. typed & end.)

Public Finance & Taxation

CHANGING THE FISCAL YEAR OF MUNICIPALITIES TO START JULY I INSTEAD OF JANUARY 1. (S. 735; 6/26/57; 23 pp. printed.) LIMITATION, ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF MOTOR VE- HICLE EXCISE TAX. (S. 645; 1/21/58; 43 pp. printed.) COLLECTION OF INHERITANCE AND ESTATE TAXES. (S. 695; 3 17/58; 37 pp. printed.) STATE REIMBURSEMENT FOR UTILITY RELOCATIONS REQUIRED BY HIGH WAY CONSTRUCTION. (S. 501; 2 11/59; I 10 pp. printed.) STATE TAX AND OTHER RELIEF FOR COMMUTER RAIL- ROADS. (S. 535; 2/7/61; 99 pp. printed.) PROFESSIONAL STAFF SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS AT PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN MASS.(S 550; 3/8/61; 52 pp. printed.) STATE AID 10 CITIES AND TOWNS FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES (H. 3580; 12/6/61; 101 pp. printed.) REDISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE BURDENS. (H. 3494; 1/23/62; 42 pp. printed.) Control of stale debt. (3/ 22 62; 22 pp. mimeo; 7/22 74; 2 pp. typed & end.) Fiscal independence for U. Mass, and Lowell Tech. Inst. (5/9 62; 54 pp mimeo.) VENDOR ALLOWANCE FOR COLLECTING ALCOHOLIC BEVER- AGE EXCISE. (S. 712; 12/26, 62; 62 pp. printed.) Proposals to modify slate county tax apportionment formula. (Includes tabulation of gains and losses of 351 cities and towns. 3 6/63; 17 pp. mimeo.) Cost estimates on legislative proposals. (10/17/63; 1 p. typed & end.; I 7/65; 2 pp. typed & end.; 1/29/70; 2 pp. typed & ends.; 11/3/77; I p. typed & end.; 11/8/78; 3 pp. typed; 9/11/81; 1 p. typed & end. See also H. 4895 of 1967, below.) 110 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

STATE SCHOLARSHIP AND LOAN PROGRAMS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION. (S. 764; 1/29/64; 43 pp, printed.) TAXATION OF LEASED BUSINESS EQUIPMENT. (H. 3297; 2/1/65; 64 pp. printed.) Taxation of overhead telephone wires. (3/21/66; 2 pp. typed; 1/9/69; 1 p typed & end.) INITIAL REPAYMENT OF STATE SERIAL BOND MATURITIES. (S. 869; 3/23/66; 38 pp. printed.) Children’s financial responsibility under O.A.A. program. (1/9/67; 1 p, typed & end.) FISCAL ESTIMATES FOR PROPOSED LEGISLATION. (H, 4895; I 25/67; 103 pp. printed.) “Flying Cross” tax abatements. (1/26/67; 1 p. typed & end.) Expenditures for higher education. (1/31/67; 1 p. typed & end.) Competitive bids on local government purchases. (2/7/67; 1 p. typed & end.) A GRADUATED STATE INCOME TAX FOR MASSACHUSETTS. (S. 1199; 3/9/67; 70 pp. printed.) Mass, state income tax administration. (4/3/67; 2 pp. typed.) Sales tax on machinery. (7/11 /67; 3 pp. typed & end.) Mass, state procedures for estimating revenue. (8/31/67; I p. typed.) Proposed revenue changes in Mass, income tax. (10/16/67; 2 pp. typed & end.) Gross debt and average income of 19 Mass, communities. (11/28/67; 2 pp typed.) CREDIT FOR UNUSED SICK LEAVE. (S. 908; 1/3/68; 30 pp. printed.) Equalization of taxes on commercial and fair racing. (1/25/68; 2 pp. typed; 7/28/70; I p. typed & ends.) Financial aid for golf courses. (2/5/68; I p. typed.) FREE TUITION AT STATE COLLEGES, (S. 909; 2/6/68; 29 pp. printed.) Interest on time deposits. (2/12/68; I p. typed.) Taxation of Mass, business trusts. (3/5/68; 1 p. typed.) Slate college per capita costs. (12/13/68; I p. typed.) Vietnam bonus. (1/30/69; 2 pp. typed.) FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO CITIES AND TOWNS. (S. 1260; 1/29 69; 86 pp. printed.) Potential revenue from legalized gambling. (3/6/69; 2 pp. typed.) 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 111

Taxation of bank checks. (4/7/69; 2 pp. typed.) Taxation of investment income of insurance companies. (5/2/69; 1 p. typed.) CLASSIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF REAL PROPERTY. (H. 5323; 5/21/69; 50 pp. printed.) Mass, bond issue authority. (10/10/69; I p. typed.) Federal welfare and revenue-sharing proposal. (8/20/69; 24 pp. mimeo.) Tax relief for the elderly. (9/26/69; I p. typed & end.; 3/6/75; 1 p. typed & end.)

Recent federal court decisions re school impact aid. (1/9/70; I p. typed & ends.)

Value of state real property. (1/14/70; 2 pp. typed & end.) JUDICIAL COMPENSATION AND RELATED BENEFITS. (H. 4989; 1/28/70; 102 pp. printed.) ASSESSMENT OF AGRICULTURAL LAND. (H. 5107; 2/20/70; 40 pp printed.) THE PAYMENT OF TEACHERS’ SALARIES IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS. (H. 5368; 4/2/70; 136 pp. printed.) TAX EXEMPTION OF RAILROAD RIGHTS-OF-WAY. (S. 1429; 4 2/70; 53 pp. printed.) Taxation of undeveloped land. (4/15/70; 2 pp. typed & ends.) Real estate tax rates of 351 cities and towns in Mass, for 1969. (4/27/70; 5 pp. mimeo.) Regional government revenue sources. (4/27/70; 3 pp. typed. See also S 1680 of 1976, below.) Selected aspects of state expenditures. (9/10/70; I p. typed & ends.) Public aid to private schools. (11,25/70; 2 pp. typed; 8/28/80; 27 pp mimeo.) Personal property taxation of construction equipment. (12/4/70; I p. typed.) LEGISLATIVE POST AUDIT. (H. 6056; 2/17/71; 67 pp. printed.) Fees as compensation for locally elected officials. (2/22/71; 2 pp. typed.) STATE ASSUMPTION OF LOCAL EDUCATION COSTS AND PRO- VISION OF EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY. (H. 5447; 4/7/71; 209 pp. printed.) Deficit funding of selected mass transit systems. (5/12/71; 2 pp. typed.) Teachers’ salaries and retirement benefits. (6/3/71; 4 pp. typed.) State aid to the City of Gardner. (6/22/71; 1 p. typed.) 112 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

Federal Manpower programs. (7/1/71; 26 pp. typed.) State aid for private pollution control. (8/25/71; 2 pp. typed.) Taxation of elderly housing projects. (10/12/71; 1 p. typed.) UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. (S. 1243; 12/8/71; 67 pp. printed.) State aid to Chicopee and Holyoke. (3/28/72; 3 pp. typed.) Use of Highway Fund for mass transit. (5/3/72; 24 pp. mimeo.) STATE ASSUMPTION OF CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY TAX EX- EMPTIONS. (H. 5969; 5/10/72; 81 pp. printed.) Mass, state lottery. (10/25/72; I p. typed & end; 9/24/73; 1 p. typed.) State aid to zoos. (6/12/72; I p. typed; 8/17/73; 8 pp. typed.) Taxation of mobile homes. (11/30/72; 1 p. typed & end.) Federal credit for state income tax payments. (12/6/72; 2 pp. typed.) Special assessments of state property. (12/15/72; 1 p. typed & end.) Maryland “off-track” betting proposals. (2/1/73; 1 p. typed & end.) Population as a basis for state aid distributions. (2/5/73; 1 p. typed.) STATE AID TO PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITU- TIONS AND STUDENTS. (H. 6106; 2/28/73; 115 pp. printed.) Recent '/12 state budget acts. (3/1/73; Ip. typed & end.) State and local government expenditures. (3/7/73; 2 pp. typed.) Rapid transit and commuter railroads. (7/6/73; 67 pp. mimeo.) Higher education budgetary procedures. (9/28/73; 2 pp. typed. See also 6/3/81, below.) State “cherry sheets”. (10/25/73; 3 pp. typed.) Recreational trailer excise tax. (11/27/73; 1 p. typed.) Subsidy for certain cultural institutions. (11/30/73; 1 p. typed & end.) POLITICAL PARTY STRUCTURE AND PUBLIC CAMPAIGN FUNDING. (S. 1578; 1/23/74; 90 pp. printed.) Retirement credit for servicemen. (2/8/74; 9 pp. mimeo & end.; 4/17/74; 2 pp. typed & end.) Financial impact on City of Everett of Chapter 1140 of 1973. (4/10/74; 7 pp. typed.) MASSACHUSETTS TRANSIT SYSTEMS AND AID PROGRAMS, (H. 5996; 4/25/74; 217 pp. printed.) States’ practices re deposit of funds. (12/9/74; 1 p. typed & end.) Conn, decision re state aid to education. (1/20/75; 1 p. typed & end.) Use of Highway Fund for other purposes. (1/28/75; 2 pp. typed.) Mass, state lottery revenue. (2/24/75; 1 p. typed.) 1988| HOUSE - No. 2000 113

Constitutionality of 1 & R use for Highway Fund aid. (2/25/75; 1 p. typed.) Mass, rental assistance program. (3/10/75; 2 pp. typed & end.) THE APPLICATION OF STATE LAWS ADDING TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT COSTS. (H. 5841; 4/15/75; 163 pp. printed.) Selected budgetary data on Mass, correctional institutions. (5/28/75; 2 pp. typed.) Funding of public transportation. (7/15/75; 3 pp, typed & end.) Hotel & meal tax revenues. (10/28/75; I p. typed & end.) “NESDEC” formula of school aid and property valuation. (12/15/75; 4 pp typed.) North Dakota state bank. (1/14/76; 1 p. typed & end.; 2/ 11/76; I p. typed & end.; 6/8/76; 1 p. typed & end.) Estimated revenue increases from 1975 tax statutes. (1/21/76; 1 p. typed.) Commuter and “head" taxes. (2/3/76; 3 pp. typed & end.) Observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday. (2/6/76; 1 p. typed & end.; 11/21/83; I p. typed & end.) Cumulative building funds. (3/3/76; I p. typed.) States’ personal income tax rates. (4/1/76; I p. typed & end.) Unaccepted streets and Ch. 81 distributions. (5/13/76; 3 pp. typed.) Local government payroll taxes. (5/24/76; 3 pp. typed & end.; 6/2/76; 2 pp. typed.) A PLANNED PROGRAM BUDGET SYSTEM. (H. 5200; 6/30/76; 65 pp. printed.) ESTABLISHING A METROPOLITAN SERVICES FINANCING DIS- TRICT IN THE BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA. (S. 1680; 8/4 76; 349 pp. printed.) Legislative appropriation of federal funds. (2/17/77; I p. typed & end.; 6 27/77; I p. typed & end.; 8/12/77; 1 p. typed & end.; 1/18/78; 1 p. typed & end.; 3/10/78; I p. typed & end.; 3/20/78; I p. typed & end.; 2/1/79; 1 p. typed & end.; 3/12/79; 1 p. typed & end.; 9/20/79; I p. typed & end.) Cost of information re ballot questions. (6/7/77; I p. typed.) “Workfare” programs, (6/20/77; 2 pp. typed & end.) New England states’ appropriations for the arts. (9/14/77; 1 p. typed & end.) REIMBURSEMENT OF MUNICIPAL HOSPITALS FOR GENERAI RELIEF CARE. (S. 1949; 10/13/77; 59 pp. printed.) 114 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

Full valuation and “cherry sheet” impact (City of Brockton). (11/4/77; 4 pp. typed.) Exemption from state income tax for military personnel. (11 /30/ 77; 2 pp. typed.) State revenue and state aid to Boston. (2/24/78; I p. typed & end.) Pupil enrollments and costs in Mass. (3/27/78; I p. typed; 4/4/78; 1 p. typed.) Local financial statistics reporting forms and bonding requirements. (4/13 78; 2 pp. typed.) STATE SEVERANCE TAXES. (H. 5850; 4/21/78; 374 pp. printed.) Anti-litter legislation. (5/18, 19, 31; 7/3, 4; and 10/22/78; all 1 p. typed & end.; 3/3, 8/20, and 10/24/80; all 1 p. typed & end; 3/23/81; 2 pp. typed.) Pennsylvania decision re legislative appropriation of federal funds. (8/2 78; 2 pp. typed.) Background of California’s “Proposition 13”. (10/2/78; 27 pp. typed.) State aid to the arts. (10/19/78; I p. typed & end.; 9/3/80; 1 p. typed & end.) Assessment and classification of real property. (10/23/78; 2 pp. typed.) VOTER APPROVAL OF BORROWING AND PROPERTY TAXES. (H. 5576; 2/8/79; 57 pp. printed.) Federally mandated programs. (4/10/79; 1 p. typed & end.) The Classification Amendment and shelf legislation. (4/10/79; 2 pp. typed.) Ton-mileage taxes. (5/11/79; I p, typed & end.) “Indexing” of states’ income taxes. (6/13/79; 2 pp. typed & end. 10/9/80; I p. typed & end.) Legislature’s amendatory powers re state budget. (6/28/79; 5 pp. typed & end.) Spending limit and 4% “cap” law. (9/24/79; 7 pp. typed.) Governor’s item veto power re capital outlay programs. (12/14/79; 2 pp typed.) FISCAL IMPACT OF STATE ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS. (H. 5954; 2/13/80; 50 pp. printed.) Pending lax and spending limitation initiative proposals. (3/11/80; 2 pp. typed & end.; 8/4/80; 21 pp. mimeo.) SITE VALUE TAXATION. (H. 6075; 3/12/80; 105 pp. printed.) TAX-EXEMPT SECURITIES. (S. 2183; 4/3/80; 57 pp. printed.) Public funding of legislative elections. (4/10/80; 2 pp. typed & end.) 1988) HOUSE No. 2000 115

CIGARETTE BOOTLEGGING. (S. 2215; 4/16/80; 84 pp. printed.) Financial impact of Administrative Regulations. (4/27/80; 2 pp. typed.) LIMITING TAXATION AND SPENDING BY STATE AND LOCAI GOVERNMENTS. (H. 6743; 6/10/80; 407 pp. printed.) Local taxes for mass transit systems. (11/13/80; 1 p. typed & end.; II 19/80; 6 pp. typed; 12/1/80; 4 pp. typed.) PROTECTION OF STATE’S INTEREST IN SCHOOL BUILDING ASSISTANCE GRANTS. (H. 6291; 1/21/81; 52 pp. printed.) Excise tax payment for auto registration. (2/2/81; 2 pp. typed.) State assumption of welfare costs. (2/13/81; 5 pp. typed.) REQUIRING PRIOR LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL OF CERTAIN CONSENT DECREES. (H. 6362; 3/5/81; 129 pp. printed.) Property tax deferral program for the elderly. (3/12/81; 1 p. typed.) Lump sum appropriation financing ofunified state systems of public higher education. (6/3/81; 84 pp, mimeo.) Petroleum products tax for mass transit. (5/20/81; 1 p. typed & end.; 6 23/81; 1 p. typed & end.) Home Rule aspects re “2(4” bailout aid. (6/9/81; 3 pp. typed & end.) Tax incentives for gasohol production. (7/29/81; 1 p. typed.) Redemption rights and foreclosed property. (8/25/81; 2 pp. typed; 11/23 81; 3 pp. typed.) Analysis/commentary on “Tregor” bill. (10/19/81; 65 pp. mimeo.) Local or regional nonproperty taxes. (11/16/81; 6 pp. typed.) Local education costs and teachers’salaries in Mass. (12/4/81; 2 pp. typed.) INDUSTRIAL REVENUE BOND FINANCING. (H, 5829; 12/10/81; 46 pp. printed.) Legislative history of initiative constitutional amendment limiting stale and local taxes. (2/22/82; 9 pp. mimeo.) Statistical problems in forecasting impact of “Cohen” amendment. (6/15 82; 6 pp. typed.) Mass, initiative proposal for a constitutional amendment limiting state and local taxation. (7/16/82; 161 pp. mimeo.) Legislatures’procedures on “moral obligation” bills. (10/7/82; 4 pp. typed.) Hotel occupancy tax for the arts. (10/28/82; 1 p. typed & end.) Evanston, Illinois tuition tax proposal. (1/24/83; 1 p. typed & end.; 1/28 83; I p. typed & end.) States’ practices re settlement of delinquent personal income tax. (I 25 83; 1 p. typed & 4 pp. table.) Mass. “Prop. 2(4” materials. (2/15/83; 1 p. typed & end.) 116 HOUSE No. 2000 [January

USER FEES AND CHARGES. (H. 6120; 3/9/83; 91 pp. printed.) Regulation and taxation of video games. (3/21/83; folder of materials.) Mental Health/ Retardation appropriations, expenditures and census: Con- necticut, New Hampshire and New Jersey. (4/8/83; 7 pp. typed.) Casino gambling. (4/13/83; 335 pp. mimeo.) Proposed and final budgets, FY 1983 and 1984, selected states. (4/15/83; 1 p. typed & end.) Limiting state tax revenues and use of the Initiative. (7/12/83; 2 pp. typed & end.) State statutes re taxation of credit unions. (7/19/83; 1 p. typed & end.) Mass, tax revenues by source and expenditure category fiscal 1983, (9 22/83; I p. typed & end.) Unitary taxation. (11/10/83; 1 p. typed & end.) Connecticut statute re tax-exempt institutions. (11/10/83; I p. typed & end.) “Superfund” statute. (12/6/83; Ip. typed & end.; 9/11/84; 2 pp. typed & questionnaire.) State revenue and local aid data 2d Plymouth district. (1/20/84; 3 pp. typed.) Cigarette bootlegging and revenue loss. (3/6/84; 3 pp. typed.) Legislative history of the sales tax. (5/22/84; 2 pp. typed & end.) An MBTA district retail sales tax. (4/16/85; 2 pp. typed.) Hotel room tax rates. (6/25/85; I p. typed & ends.) Analysis of surtax repeal proposals. (10/4/85; 5 pp. typed.) Higher education funding procedures in Mass. (10/10/85; 3 pp. typed & ends.) Formulae for state aid to local governments. (2/14/86; 2 pp. typed & end.) Methods of assessment, taxation and allocation of tax proceeds of properties of public utilities. (10/10/86; I p. typed & 8 pp. end.) Tax status of armed forces personnel residing in Massachusetts but having legal domicile elsewhere. (3/4/87; 4 pp. typed.) Sales tax exemptions among New England states; background to political and economic considerations. (3/9/87; 4 pp. typed.) Tax credits in other states for increased charitable giving to areas of social need. (5/6/87; 2 pp. typed & references.) 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 117

Public Works

THE NAMING OF STATE FACILITIES. (S. 525; 2/16/56; 17 pp printed.) SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION METHODS AND COSTS AND UNI- FORM ARCHITECTURAL PLANS. (S. 675; 2/26/58; 155 pp. printed.) STATE REIMBURSEMENT FOR UTILITY RELOCATIONS RE- QUIRED BY HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION. (S. 501; 2/11/59; 110 pp. printed.) FAIRNESS OF STATE SUBSIDY FORMULA FOR LOCAL SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION. (S. 672; 6/22/59; 59 pp, printed. See also H. 6291 of 1981, below.) STATE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION CODES (S. 461; 1/11/60; 49 pp. printed.) STATE AID TO CITIES AND TOWNS FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES (H. 3580; 12/6/61; 101 pp. printed.) RELOCATION ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS AND FIRMS DIS- PLACED BY PUBLIC ACTION. (H. 3495; 1/8/62; 42 pp. printed.) Reorganization of Department of Public Works. (10/9/63; 32 pp. mimeo.) THE USE AND EFFECTS OF HIGHWAY DE-ICING SALTS. (S. 2; 1/65; 80 pp. printed.) Separate legislative buildings. (6/6/68; 1 p. typed.) Off-street parking garages. (7/24/69; 1 p. mimeo.) Highway takings and cemeteries. (5/18/70; 2 pp. typed & ends.) NEW TOWNS. (H. 6192; 7/29/70; 327 pp. printed.) Eminent domain. (3/16/72; 2 pp. typed.) LEASING OF FACILITIES FOR GOVERNMENTAL PURPOSES (H. 5563; 4/5/72; 60 pp. printed.) Public building construction in Boston Government Center. (11/13/72; 2 pp. typed.) Cumulative building funds. (3/3/76; I p. typed.) Unaccepted streets and Chapter 81 distributions. (5/13/76; 3 pp. typed.) VANDALISM OF PUBLIC PROPERTY (H. 4951; 5/19/76; 101 pp printed.) Hazardous wastes emergencies. (3/22/79; 1 p. typed.) Hazardous wastes and water supplies. (5/30/79; 2 pp. typed.) Methods of hazardous waste disposal. (6/6/79; 2 pp. typed & end.) 118 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

Naming of state educational facilities. (7/12/79; 1 p. typed & end.) Municipal parking authorities. (6/23/80; 3 pp. typed.) PROTECTION OF THE STATE’S INTEREST IN SCHOOL BUILD- ING ASSISTANCE GRANTS. (H. 6291; 1/21/81; 52 pp. printed.) State eminent domain powers over county buildings and contents. (6/3 81; 2 pp. typed.) Landfill regulation (8/13/81; 1 p. typed & end.) Use of sodium hypochlorite in sewage treatment. (7/8/83; 2 pp. typed & end.) Analysis of “Massßank” proposal and bibliography. (10/18/85; 4 pp typed.)

Recreation LICENSING AND REGULATING SUMMER CAMPS FOR CHIL- DREN. (H. 2706; 2/9/56; 62 pp, printed.) Regulation of dancing schools. (3/29/60; 2 pp. typed; 2/18/63; 30 pp mimeo.) STATE REGULATION OF SPEAR FISHING AT PUBLIC AND PRI- VATE BEACHES. (H. 2994; 2/6/61; 64 pp. printed.) STATE BOARD TO CO-ORDINATE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES. (S. 621; 12/19/61; 44 pp. printed.) COMMERCIAL SHOOTING PRESERVES. (H. 3694; 1/19/62; 53 pp. printed.) METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COMMISSION SEA AQUARIUM FOR SOUTH BOSTON. (S. 700; 1/30 62; 34 pp, printed.) SKI LIFT AND TRAMWAY SAFETY. (S. 623; 12/4/63; 74 pp. printed.) AN ALL-WEATHER STADIUM FOR SOUTH BOSTON. (S. 728; 1 16/64; 30 pp. printed.) A BOSTON MULTI-PURPOSE SPORTS FACILITY. (S. 1002; 1/27/ 65; 85 pp. printed.) SUPPLEMENT. (S. I 125; 7/14 65; 35 pp. printed.) HARBOR REGULATION. (S. 1234; 11/15 65; 119 pp. printed.) PUBLIC RECREATION ON PRIVATE LANDS AND LAND- OWNERS’ LIABILITY. (S. 1136; I 24/67; 47 pp, printed.) Fencing of swimming pools. (I 30/67; 3 pp. typed.) Regulation of snowmobiles. (4/27/67; 10 pp. mimeo.) Equalization of taxes on commercial and fair racing. (1/25/68; 2 pp. typed; 7/28 70; 1 p. typed & end.) Financial aid for golf courses. (2/7/68; I p. typed.) 1988] HOUSE No. 2000 119

Federal aid for youth recreation centers. (7/31/68; 1 p. typed.) Potential revenue from legalized gambling. (3/6/69; 2 pp. typed.) Decisions re Anti-Aid Amendment. (6/18/70; 1 p. typed & end.) Regulation of CATV. (8/9/71; 2 pp. typed.) Municipal CATV systems. (1/17/72; 1 p. typed & end.) State aid to zoos. (6/12/72; 1 p. typed; 8/17/73; 9 pp, typed.) Maryland “off-track” betting proposals. (2/1/73; 1 p. typed & end.) “Rock” concerts. (2/28/73; I p. typed & end.) Federal, Mass, and Ohio requirements re veterans’ raffles. (10/18/74; 3 pp. typed.) Railroad rights of way as recreational trails. (7/8/75; I p. typed & questionnaire.) Control of over-use of state parks. (9/8/76; I p. typed.) New England states' appropriations for the arts. (9/14/77; 1 p. typed & end.) Proposed summer camp regulations. (9/20/78; 7 pp. typed.) State aid to the arts. (10/19/78; 1 p. typed & end.; 9/3/80; 1 p. typed & end.) TIME SHARING. (H. 6696; 9/17/82; 8 pp. printed.) Hotel occupancy taxes for the arts. (10/28/82; 1 p. typed & end.) Regulation and taxation of video games. (3/21/83; folder of materials.) Casino gambling. (4/13/83; 335 pp. mimeo.) Questions re regulation of time-sharing. (6/13/84; 2 pp. typed & end.) Funding state parks. (3/19/86; 2 pp. typed.) Massachusetts law and regulations re use of “jet skis,” “surf jets” and “wetbikes". (7/22/86; 2 pp. typed & end.) Burn injuries in Mass, caused by fireworks or firecrackers, 1984-86. (9/24 86; 2 pp. typed & end.) 120 HOUSE - No. 2000 [January

APPENDIX B.

STATUTE ESTABLISHING LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COUNCIL AND BUREAU.

GENERAL LAWS, CHAPTER 3, SECTIONS 56-61, (As inserted by Acts of 1954, chapter 607 1 § 2, and subsequently amended.) SECTION 56. There is hereby established a legislative research council, hereinafter called the council, to consist of four members of the senate, to be designated annually by the president thereof, and eight members of the house of representatives, to be designated annually by the speaker thereof, who shall serve until their respective successors have been appointed and who may be reappointed; provided, however, that no member shall serve after he ceases to be a member of the general court. The membership appointed to the council from each branch of the general court shall be equally divided between the two major political parties. The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint the chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the council. Members of the council shall serve without pay as such but shall be reimbursed for all necessary expenses, and while the general court is not in session shall be reimbursed for travel and expenses to and from their homes to the state house at the same rate as that paid to members of the general court when it is in session. The members of said council shall not be deemed to be executive or administrative officers within the meaning of the constitution, but shall serve directly under the general court. (Amended by Acts of 1961, c. 118; Acts ol 1965, c. 443; Acts of 1967, c. 291.) SECTION 57. The council shall determine all policies with respect to a legislative research program as hereinafter provided, and shall provide for the creation of a legislative research bureau, hereinafter called the bureau, under its direction, which shall carry out the policies so determined. SECTION 58. The council shall appoint a person qualified by education, training and experience who shall be the director of the bureau. The council shall also appoint such assistants to the director as are necessary to carry out the program of statistical research and fact- finding by the council. The compensation of the director and other bureau employees shall be subject to the approval of the committees 1988] HOUSE - No. 2000 121 on rules of the two branches, acting concurrently, of the general court. The director and his assistants shall not be subject to chapter thirty- one. (Amended by Acts of 1955, c. 137.) SECTION 59. The bureau shall assist the members of the general court and any committee and recess commission thereof in all matters requiring statistical research or fact-finding in connection with proposed legislation or other matters pertaining to the functions of the general court. SECTION 60. The bureau shall be provided with quarters in the state house or elsewhere at a location convenient to the general court and shall, upon request, be furnished with such information and records by all departments, divisions, agencies and political subdivisions of the commonwealth as are not deemed to be confidential and are required by it for the proper conduct of its duties. Every special committee or commission and every joint committee sitting during the recess of the general court which is established by the general court or by either branch thereof to make a study or investigation in connection with proposed legislation shall, if no other provision is made and in the absence of a vote to the contrary by such committee or commission, within ninety days after the final date for filing its report turn over to the bureau all the papers, records and material acquired during the existence of the committee or commission. The bureau shall turn over to the state library, such papers, records and material which it deems to merit preservation and shall destroy the remainder. (Amended by Acts of 1955, c. 579.) SECTION 61. The bureau shall make such reports to the council as are required by it. The council may report from time to time to the general court and shall make an annual report in writing to the general court by filing a copy of the same with the clerk of the house of representatives on or before the second Wednesday of November in each year.

'Section I declares "that the volume and complexity of legislative matters before the general of court have shown a prodigious increase since the close World War 11; that the technical aspects of manv of these matters are of such a nature as to require a high degree of specialization on the part of the legislative members; that painstaking, exhaustive and accurate fact-finding is a necessity in the proper discharge of legislative duties in a legislative body encompassing the scope of the general court of Massachusetts; that a legislative research staff is currently recogniz.ed as an invaluable and indispensable tool in the efficient performance ol the legislative of establish process; and that it is the intention this act to a legislative research staff which shall perform its duties in a manner completely impartial and non-partisan at all times and of in conformance with the highest standards research practice for the assistance and benefit the of the members, committees and commissions of general court."