Since the start of last year, the legislature has approved about 130 bills. But the vast majority were focused on addressing issues affecting individual towns or procedural measures setting election dates, raising awareness about diseases or commemorating certain groups. Stripping out those bills and routine budget appropriations, just seven major laws have been enacted.
The Massachusetts State House.
Photographer: Mel Musto/Bloomberg
Just one of the laws, which bolsters protections for reproductive and transgender care, ...