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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3853 FILED ON: 1/17/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2584
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Michael S. Day, (BY REQUEST)
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act to improve public safety and security.
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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Vincent Lawrence Dixon60 Lake Street Unit N, Winchester, MA
01890
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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3853 FILED ON: 1/17/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2584
By Representative Day of Stoneham (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
2584) of Vincent Lawrence Dixon relative to the establishment of a state immigration processing
and waiver office to improve public safety and security. Public Safety and Homeland Security.
[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 2304 OF 2023-2024.]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)
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An Act to improve public safety and security.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION I. The Massachusetts General Laws are hereby amended by inserting the
2following new chapter:
3 State Immigration Processing & Waiver Act
4 An Act to Improve Public Safety and Security
5 SECTION II. – PURPOSE
6 The complex variety of problems relating to immigration, processing of new immigrants,
7and various clearances relating to residence, employment, and a variety of legal issues, has
8grown in recent years. – Federal Policy of The United States Government, has become 2 of 2
9increasingly confusing, and frustrating to state policy, employers, and local communities, further
10confusing, and complicating state, and local community services, and communities.
11 Thus, this legislation authorizes exploration by the Executive Office of Public Safety and
12Security (EOPSS), of establishing a:
13 Commonwealth of Massachusetts – State Immigration Processing & Waiver Office
14 SECTION III. – PURPOSES OF STATE IMMIGRATION PROCESSING & WAIVER
15OFFICE
16 A Pilot Program, is authorized to be established by the EOPSS, to develop a database of
17legal visitors, and residents; and to explore relevant Status Guidelines for all non-citizen entrants
18to The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
19 This Pilot Program, shall explore the creation of Employer Sponsorship Agreements
20(ESAs), by which Massachusetts based employers, needing appropriately credentialed, or
21standard capable employees, may offer such positions, through the State Immigration Processing
22Services (SIPS).
23 As this Pilot Program, develops, it shall explore, with Federal authorities, how
24Commonwealth of Massachusetts Law Enforcement, might assume state jurisdiction of
25immigrant screening; of some number of employable non-citizen individuals; with possible
26Federal reimbursement.
27 In setting forth these standards, it is hoped that a pathway, for stabilization of immigrant
28lives, and families, and our state economy, might be accomplished for some number of
29individuals in Massachusetts.