Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Commerce and Labor, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning commercial, industrial, and mercantile establishments; industrial development; consumer protection; discrimination in employment; mobile home parks; and other matters referred. It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation. Subject files are compiled by and for the committee during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation to create a portfolio of background information, related research, and news concerning topics brought to the committee’s attention through legislation and hearings. –Files contain background materials on subjects concerning proposed legislation drafted and reviewed by the committee. Documents include fiscal and annual reports, brochures, pamphlets, correspondences, and newspaper clippings. Major subjects for the 1970s include gay rights and job security; for the 1980s, discrimination against women in the workplace;  for the 1990s, temporary disability.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year
Notes:  Files for 1973-1977, 1987-1989, 1992-1993, 1999. For similar materials for these and other years see: Hearing files ((M-Ar)1118). Pre-1992 files chiefly transferred from that series. Box 1: 1973-1977. Box 2: 1987-1989. Box 3: Box 1989-1993. Box 4: 1999
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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 governor’s chief of operations, known at least in the first term (1975-1979) of Michael Dukakis as the governor’s cabinet coordinator, oversees and coordinates the work of the secretariats comprising the governor’s cabinet.  Subject files have been created to compile information and develop policy for the governor on issues raised during cabinet meetings.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by term, thereunder by subject
Notes: MSD 3/301-302, 305-321 previously subseries (2) in: Administrative files (now disbanded), along with MSD 3/303-304 now in: Cabinet meeting agendas. Scheduled as: Issues files. A few items predate this time span. Files, which are fragmentary, reflect some work of chief of operations before holding that post
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Scope and Content: Subject files are compiled by the chief of staff (chief secretary until 1991) to inform the governor on issues affecting his administration and to provide the governor with background information for formulating policy positions.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by term, thereunder alphabetically by subject. Arranged by staff member, thereunder by office/subject category,and then alphabetically by subject. Arranged alphabetically by staff member
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Scope and Content: As the unit responsible for managing the governor’s mail, the Governor’s Correspondence Office gathered information to assist the governor in answering correspondence relating to state government policies, as maintained in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject
Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
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