The new legislative session is well underway. Legislators are filing bills now. The deadline for timely filed bills is this Friday, February 19th. We will know the universe of bills soon. Committee assignments have been made. Once bills are sent to committee, the bill hearing process will begin.

As always, constituent services are our top priority. We continue to work remotely and our office is fully functioning. Please contact us if we can be of assistance.

As of last Sunday, February 7th, Massachusetts has administered over 850,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. On Thursday, 74,000 appointments will be posted online for mass vaccination sites and pharmacies at locations statewide. Approximately 30,000 additional appointments will be posted over the course of the week at pharmacies— totaling over 100,000 new appointments this week for mass vaccination sites and pharmacies.

If you’re now eligible, you can visit www.mass.gov/COVIDVaccine to schedule an appointment.

Be sure to check with your local town, too. Cohasset, Hingham, and Hull have on-line registration pages to administer the vaccine to local residents.

You can also use this link to the COVID-19 vaccine map to find the closest vaccination centers and schedule an appointment.

Moving forward, a caregiver who accompanies a person age 75+ years to get the vaccine at a mass vaccination site may schedule his or her own appointment to be vaccinated on the same day at the same location as the 75+ years old resident.

Individuals can go to mass.gov/covid vaccine and schedule two separate appointments at either the same time or adjacent. For the companion appointment, select the option ‘I am accompanying someone who is age 75+ to their vaccination appointment and my appointment is the same day.'

Legislative committee assignments have been made for the 192nd General Court, and will be posted to the MA Legislature website soon. I have the honor to serve on the following committees:

Residents can visit my profile page on the MA Legislature website to learn about my bills, committee assignments, and the district description. See Rep. Meschino Profile.

Kudos to the Hingham LWV for their January 27 regional forum highlighting climate action in Cohasset Hingham and Hull. Local community officials and activists presented initiatives within each community. I was pleased to co-present on climate action at the state level with Sen. O'Connor.

My 2050 Roadmap bill call for net-zero carbon emissions is a key piece of S.9, The Next Generation Roadmap, which is pending in the Senate and House. We expect to take up the final vote soon.

We continue to hold office hours via Zoom! Please call the office at 617-722-2320 or email to reserve a time slot in the new year:

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