Assertion: baker | /r/CapableOf | sign bill
Facets:
value: into law
type: OTHER
value: the following month
type: TEMPORAL
value: in november
type: TEMPORAL
value: in january
type: TEMPORAL
value: in july
type: TEMPORAL
value: in march
type: TEMPORAL
value: in february
type: TEMPORAL
value: in order to meet emission reductions goals
type: PURPOSE
value: in august
type: TEMPORAL
value: after proposing similar legislation
type: TEMPORAL
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text: The following month, Baker signed into law a bill forming a state Workforce Development Board, announced $9.2 million in job-training grants, and along with the Massachusetts congressional delegation, wrote an open letter to President Obama to request federal matching funds for workplace safety programs for commercial fishermen.
text: In November 2017, Baker signed into law a bill creating a registry for home care workers.
text: In March 2018, Baker signed into law a bill extending OSHA safety standards to municipal workplaces in the state, and Baker defended the hiring practices of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
text: In July 2018, Baker signed into law a bill to provide paid leave to firefighters with work-related cancer.
text: The following month, the state's Department of Public Utilities lifted its moratorium on National Grid while putting in place new safety regulations on the company, and Baker signed into law a bill extending unemployment benefits for the workers the company locked out by 26 weeks.
text: After proposing similar legislation the previous year, in August 2016, Baker signed into law a bill regulating transportation network companies by implementing a 20-cent per ride company surcharge, mandating vehicle insurance requirements, and background checks for company drivers.
text: Also in August 2016, Baker vetoed a pilot program for a vehicle miles traveled tax, and Baker signed into law a bill that expanded a program to improve local street network safety and efficiency that was launched earlier that year, authorized $50 million in spending over the subsequent five years for repairs to small municipal bridges, and included a $750 million authorization request for the federal aid highway program.
text: In November 2019, Baker signed into law a bill banning the use of handheld electronic devices while driving that is scheduled to go into effect on February 23, 2020.
text: In January 2017, Baker signed into law a bill requiring all Massachusetts schools to have automated external defibrillators on site, announced that the state had received a $2 million grant from the Council of Chief State School Officers and JPMorgan Chase to improve career education in the state, and proposed a $91 million increase (to a total of $4.7 billion) in Chapter 70 local education funding and a $40 million increase (to a total of $1.062 billion) in unrestricted local aid for education for fiscal year 2018.
text: In November 2017, Baker signed into law a bill expanding options for schools in fulfilling English as a second language requirements for their immigrant students.
text: In March 2018, Baker signed into law a bill preventing a steep health insurance price increase for retired public school teachers.
text: In January 2017, in order to meet emission reductions goals, Baker signed into law a bill to promote the sale and use of electric vehicles.
text: In February 2016, Baker signed into law a bill endorsed by the American Cancer Society and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute that increased the minimum age for using tanning facilities to 18 in order to counter increases in skin cancer among minors.
text: Later in the same month, Baker signed into law a bill mandating insurance coverage of treatment for HIV-associated lipodystrophy caused by older HIV medications.
text: In July 2017, Baker signed into law a bill requiring employers to provide "reasonable accommodations" for female employees who are pregnant and banning employment discrimination in hiring or termination against female employees who are pregnant, which went into effect the following April.
text: In October 2017, when the Trump Administration issued new regulations allowing insurers and employers to opt out of contraceptive mandates, Baker reiterated his support for such mandates, and the following month, Baker signed into law a bill requiring Massachusetts insurers to cover birth control without copayments.
text: In July 2018, Baker criticized a proposed revision by the Trump Administration to Title X banning health clinics from sharing workspace and financial resources with abortion providers, and Baker signed into law a bill repealing state abortion laws that would be retroactively reinstated in the event that the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision is overturned.