MASSPIRG Releases 2019-2020 Legislative Agenda
Each legislative session, we choose several bills that represent public interest reforms and we work with the lead sponsors and cosponsors to promote them. Below please find selected state priorities from our legislative agenda for the 2019-20 session. Click here for legisaltive agenda.
The Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG) is an advocate for the public interest. When consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, MASSPIRG speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and well-being and fight to end them, using the time-tested tools of investigative research, media exposés, grassroots organizing, advocacy and litigation. MASSPIRG’s mission is to deliver persistent, result-oriented public interest activism that protects consumers, encourages a fair, sustainable economy, and fosters responsive, democratic government.
Each legislative session, we choose several bills that represent public interest reforms and we work with the lead sponsors and cosponsors to promote them. Below please find selected state priorities from our legislative agenda for the 2019-20 session.
Click here for legisaltive agenda
Authors
Deirdre Cummings
Legislative Director, MASSPIRG
Deirdre runs MASSPIRG’s public health, consumer protection and tax and budget programs. Deirdre has led campaigns to improve public records law and require all state spending to be transparent and available on an easy-to-use website, close $400 million in corporate tax loopholes, protect the state’s retail sales laws to reduce overcharges and preserve price disclosures, reduce costs of health insurance and prescription drugs, and more. Deirdre also oversees a Consumer Action Center in Weymouth, Mass., which has mediated 17,000 complaints and returned $4 million to Massachusetts consumers since 1989. Deirdre currently resides in Maynard, Mass., with her family. Over the years she has visited all but one of the state's 351 towns — Gosnold.
