Make Sure Massachusetts Protects Your Right to Wear a Mask, Period!
Sign up to Testify by JUNE 9 at 10:00AM to support our right to wear masks in Massachusetts!
On Tuesday, June 10, 1PM (in person or virtually), the Massachusetts State Legislature’s Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government will host a public hearing regarding Senate Bill S.1427, An Act Prohibiting Municipal Bans of Face Coverings for Protective or Medical Use.
After the hearing is over you will still have until JUNE 24 to send written comments to lawmakers.
Stay tuned on the weekend for a more detailed post with talking points and a template email! For now…
Sign up to testify by Mon 6/9 at 10AM
Background: As Trump undermines our civil rights, science, health and the rule of law, we have seen threats of mask bans in communities and at universities across the country. Join us now in protecting our rights to choose to wear masks.
What’s in the bill? S.1427 protects the rights of Massachusetts residents to choose when to wear a mask or face covering by preemptively stopping local governments from passing laws “prohibit[ing] the wearing of face coverings for protective or medical use in any indoor or outdoor space open to the public”.
The bill was proposed by Senator William Brownsberger at the request of public health advocates and constituents. The bill currently states that “No city or town shall enact an ordinance or by-law, or establish any policy, that prohibits the wearing of face coverings for protective or medical use.”
Stronger language would ideally protect our rights to protect our own health, which are currently being chilled amid politicized, bad-faith attacks on medical masking across the country.
Join us on Tuesday, June 10 at 1PM to urge the state legislature protect us from ordinances, policies or by-laws which prohibit, chill or otherwise burden medical masking!