{"id":9300,"date":"2025-04-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=9300"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:48:59","slug":"moar-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/11\/moar-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Moar Bills!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Massachusetts legislature is considering thousands of bills.\u00a0 Some of them we should support and others we need to oppose. We already voted to oppose <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/HD2323\">yet another bill<\/a> to disenfranchise political designations and make it harder to create them and to support the Location Shield Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/H86\">H.86<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/S197\">S.197<\/a>). Here are others we are looking at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An Act relative to unregulated face recognition and emerging biometric surveillance technologies (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/191\/H1538\">H.1538<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An Act establishing a moratorium on face recognition and other remote biometric surveillance systems (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/191\/S1385\">S.1385<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An Act relative to unmanned aerial systems (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/H3749\">H.3749<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/S2438\">S.2438<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An Act relative to protecting Massachusetts residents against federal government surveillance (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/H2687\">H.2687<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dignity Not Deportations Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/H1588\">H.1588<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/S1122\">S.1122<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Civil Asset Forfeiture reform (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/H1953\">H.1953<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Right to Repair Bills:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/H433\">H.433<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/S189\">S.189<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/H398\">H.398<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/H1278\">H.1278<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We setup an <a href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.pp-international.net\/p\/MassPirates_2025_Bills_To_Review\">etherpad for you to suggest bills we should review<\/a>. Please include the name of the bill, a link to it and what position you recommend and why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts legislature is considering thousands of bills.\u00a0 Some of them we should support and others we need to oppose. 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