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ISSUES

Issues

Jobs & Economy​

  • Supporting small businesses and working families

  • Pushing for green economy opportunities

  • Helping women reenter the workforce

  • Improving affordability

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Voting Access & Election Reform​

  • Advancing free, fair, and truly accessible elections

  • Ensuring full implementation of mail-in voting

  • Leading the charge to change our last-in-the-nation state primary date

  • Improving candidate safety

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Strengthening Democracy​

  • Combating corruption

  • Advancing the MA Press Shield Act

  • Enhancing government efficiency

  • Improving data management, privacy, and security

  • Speaking up, standing up (for roll calls)

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Personal & Public Health

  • Championing infectious disease prevention infrastructure

  • Advancing youth mental health supports

  • Promoting pediatric care access

  • Advocating for universal access to quality and affordable health care

  • Addressing addiction and substance use

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Reproductive Health Care ​

  • Advancing reproductive health care access and equity

  • Creating licensure for certified professional midwives

  • Championing racial equity in maternal health

  • Advocating for maternal mental health care 

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Education & Childcare

  • Fighting for childcare as necessary infrastructure

  • Establishing universal, publicly-funded, tuition-free, full-day kindergarten and pre-K

  • Centering teachers, students, and parents in discussions on public education

  • Advocating for full funding and implementation of the Student Opportunity Act

  • Supporting 21st Century curriculum

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Climate Action & Environmental Justice​

  • Reducing single-use plastics and improving waste management

  • Leading legislative work to green existing buildings

  • Investing in water quality and water access improvements

  • Creating a statewide car seat recycling program

  • Supporting green energy conversion and job creation​

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Civil Rights & Public Safety​​

  • Working to thwart workplace sexual harassment 

  • Combating crimes against women

  • Advancing civil rights for the LGBTQ+ community

  • Prohibiting body size discrimination 

  • Strengthening data privacy and security

  • Pushing back against ICE

  • Appropriately funding public professionals who support our community's health and safety, including law enforcement, firefighters, social workers, and others

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Public Transportation

  • Improving infrastructure to generate reliability

  • Expanding services to increase rider access

  • Safeguarding reduced fares

  • Investing in community-based transit options

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Key Legislation

SELECT LEGISLATION (2025-2026)

  • Elections Upgrades Act, S.534

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As Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Becca shepherded the 2026 environmental bond bill, the largest environment-centered climate action legislation in Massachusetts history, through the legislative process and into final negotiations.

 

Read all of Becca's bills to see her work on behalf of all Bay Staters.

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