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Without Fanfare, Baker Signs Bills Passed In Closing Days Of Legislative Session

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker
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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has had a low-key, but productive week, signing more than 50 bills sent to him by the legislature in the final days of the legislative session. 

Among the bills Baker signed is one to accelerate the use of clean energy sources in Massachusetts. 

Although environmentalists complained it does not do enough to encourage more solar power development, State Rep. Angelo Puppolo, a Springfield Democrat said the energy law is “productive” and “positive."

"I think the bill we passed was a great compromise," Puppolo said during an interview shortly after the legislative session ended on July 31st.

Also signed by Baker is a bill that joins Massachusetts with 14 other states that automatically register people to vote when they sign up for certain government services.  And, an opioid bill that will require some local jails to give inmates medication to ease their cravings for heroin and other drugs.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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