Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Election Laws considers all matters concerning elections, election laws, and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Subject files are compiled during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Human Services and Elderly Affairs, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning public welfare, children, the elderly, the handicapped, mental health, drug rehabilitation and control, veterans benefits, alcoholism, the correction system (including administration, prisoners’ rights, furloughs, work release, probation, rehabilitation, and parole), other social service programs, and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Subject files are compiled during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
Notes: Background materials may predate file dates; Box 4 includes videocassettes. Boxes 1-4: 1989-1990. Box 5: 1987-1989. Box 6: 1989-1991
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Local Affairs, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters seeking enactment of special laws for a certain city or town; establishment of economic, district, and local planning commissions; rent control; zoning laws and rules; and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Subject files are compiled during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation. –Files relating to the Cape Cod Commission acts (St 1989, c 716; St 1990, c 2)
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture (as of 2005: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture), a standing committee of the Massachusetts General Court, considers all matters pertaining to natural resources and the environment: air, water, and noise pollution and control thereof; hunting and fishing; conservation; solid and hazardous waste disposal; sewerage; agricultural and farm problems; and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation. Subject files are compiled during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation. –Files may contain House and Senate draft and final bills and draft amendments; petitions, statements, and correspondence supporting or opposing legislation; and background materials including reports, memorandums, and copies of laws and legal files.
Notes: Background materials may predate file dates
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Public Safety, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning the safety of the public, including civil defense, firearms and gun control, fire laws, motor vehicle laws, the Soldiers’ Home, and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Subject files are compiled during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged by year/subject
Notes: Background materials may predate file dates
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on the Judiciary, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning the judiciary, including salaries and recall of judges, and juries and jury duty (but excluding retirement of judges and salaries and tenure of court clerks and court officers), and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Subject files are compiled during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically/by subject
Notes: Assembled by committee co-chair Senator Alan Sisitsky and transferred to Archives from State Library, January 13, 1983. Background materials may predate stated file span
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Scope and Content: The Board of Railroad Commissioners was established in 1869.  The board assumed additional functions of the Highway Commission and became the Public Service Commission in 1913.
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Scope and Content: The Executive Office of Consumer Affairs was established in 1969 as of 1971, and renamed Executive Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation in 1983.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
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Scope and Content: The Executive Office of Consumer Affairs was established in 1969 as of 1971, and renamed Executive Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation in 1983.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by agency, thereunder chronologically
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Scope and Content: Successive committees of the House of Representatives were appointed to receive, examine, and pass upon accounts submitted for payment for purchases and services approved by the Revolutionary Massachusetts General Court.  From 1780, a joint standing committee of both houses of the Constitutional General Court (by at least 1782 known as the Committee on Accounts) performed the same function.  Approved accounts were forwarded to the Council (for concurrence as of 1776), which issued warrants for payment by the Treasury.  Series represents an accounting record for the period before 1786, at which time a settled procedure of account rolls (Account roll submissions ((M-Ar)9X); Account rolls (M-Ar)2268X)) was instituted.  It parallels a chronological set of accounts (Account journals, 1775-1786 ((M-Ar)2236X)), containing some but not necessarily all of the same data.
Arrangement: Arranged within each volume by county/town, thereunder by date
Notes: Label inside front cover, v. 1: “Accounts passed by the Courts Committee on Accounts since the Council undertook to record them at Watertown Dec 7th 1775 [i.e., per Resolves 1775-76, c 426] up to the 25th October 1780, the time when the new constitution took place.  Posted in this book to each respective town.  Also to sundry persons the towns not mentioned.”
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