Subscribe to the email list-serve and receive weekly UMass updates and media alerts. Include your name and home mailing address in the body of the message. The House Ways and Means Committee begins to hold public hearings on the state budget. Budget advocacy is the most important action you can take on behalf of the University. The Massachusetts state legislature provides the single largest annual funding stream to UMass.
Legislators schedule time to meet with constituents.
This is the best time to contact your state Senator. Write or call your MA Senator to support full funding for UMass. A Conference Committee, composed of 3 Representatives and 3 Senators negotiate a compromise budget. The Conference Committee reports out a final version of the state budget. The House and Senate vote to adopt the Conference Committee's version of the budget and send it to the Governor for signature.