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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3082 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3598 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Samantha Montaño |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act relative to universal basic income. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Samantha Montaño15th Suffolk1/19/2023 1 of 3 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3082 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3598 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Montaño of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3598) of |
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| 19 | 19 | | Samantha Montaño that the Department of Housing and Community Development establish a |
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| 20 | 20 | | pilot program to demonstrate the individual, family, and community economic impacts and state- |
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| 21 | 21 | | level cost savings of a universal basic income. Labor and Workforce Development. |
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| 22 | 22 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEE HOUSE, NO. 1632 OF 2019-2020.] |
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| 24 | 24 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 25 | 25 | | _______________ |
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| 26 | 26 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 27 | 27 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 28 | 28 | | _______________ |
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| 29 | 29 | | An Act relative to universal basic income. |
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| 30 | 30 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 31 | 31 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 32 | 32 | | 1 SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2department of housing and community development shall, within 6 months of the effective date |
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| 34 | 34 | | 3of this act, establish and implement a 3-year pilot program to demonstrate the economic impacts |
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| 35 | 35 | | 4of a universal basic income at the individual, family, community and state level. In establishing a |
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| 36 | 36 | | 5plan for the pilot program, the department shall solicit input from professionals with |
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| 37 | 37 | | 6demonstrated expertise in the fields of universal basic income, economics, labor, workforce |
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| 38 | 38 | | 7development and social services administration. The department shall develop: (i) a criteria and |
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| 39 | 39 | | 8process for selecting 3 communities for participation in the pilot program; (ii) eligibility criteria |
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| 40 | 40 | | 9for individual participation in the pilot program and a process for selecting participants; (iii) a |
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| 41 | 41 | | 10system for administering the pilot program, including a system for the timing and process of 2 of 3 |
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| 42 | 42 | | 11monthly payments to participants; (iv) a system for studying the economic and public health |
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| 43 | 43 | | 12impacts of a universal basic income scheme; and (v) a method for the efficient collection of |
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| 44 | 44 | | 13quality data. |
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| 45 | 45 | | 14 (b) Subject to appropriation, the department of housing and community development |
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| 46 | 46 | | 15shall select 100 individuals to be participants of the pilot program. Each of the individual |
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| 47 | 47 | | 16participants shall reside in 1 of 3 economically-diverse cities or towns to be identified by the |
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| 48 | 48 | | 17department, at least one of which shall be in a rural community. Each individual participating in |
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| 49 | 49 | | 18the program shall receive $1,000 per month for 3 years and shall agree to fully participate in the |
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| 50 | 50 | | 19study and analysis plan of the pilot program. |
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| 51 | 51 | | 20 SECTION 2. Not later than 1 year after the conclusion of the pilot program, the |
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| 52 | 52 | | 21department shall submit a report to the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate, the |
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| 53 | 53 | | 22joint committee on labor and workforce development, the joint committee on housing and the |
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| 54 | 54 | | 23joint committee on economic development and emerging technologies. The report shall include, |
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| 55 | 55 | | 24but not be limited to: |
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| 56 | 56 | | 25 (i) socio-demographic information, including but not limited to the age, race, ethnicity, |
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| 57 | 57 | | 26education level, family composition community of residence, housing costs, additional income |
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| 58 | 58 | | 27and government benefits received, of each participant and their family; |
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| 59 | 59 | | 28 (ii) data collected biannually during the pilot program by survey, focus group or |
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| 60 | 60 | | 29interview to determine how individuals allocated the $1,000 per month stipend; |
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| 61 | 61 | | 30 (iii) a cost-benefit analysis and a cost-savings analysis extrapolated from the pilot |
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| 62 | 62 | | 31program to a true universal basic income scheme; 3 of 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | 32 (iv) consideration of how a universal basic income scheme could be used to address |
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| 64 | 64 | | 33historic and contemporary inequalities, including institutional racism; |
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| 65 | 65 | | 34 (v) recommendations on implementing a statewide universal basic income program, |
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| 66 | 66 | | 35including monthly payment amounts, that would maximize cost-savings and public benefits; and |
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| 67 | 67 | | 36 (vi) draft legislation to implement the recommended statewide universal basic income |
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| 68 | 68 | | 37program. |
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