Colleen M. Garry

Voted for a bill writing no-cost birth control coverage into state law. It passed the House 140-16.

November 8, 2017Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted against a bill updating state law to carry out the federal Affordable Care Act. It passed the House 118-32.

June 19, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for the final 2006 health care reform law that required most residents to have health insurance. It passed the House 154-2.

April 4, 2006Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Filed a bill (H.2616) creating a state window-falls prevention program and requiring window guards in homes where young children live. The Public Safety Committee reported it favorably in September 2025.

February 27, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted against the final climate roadmap law setting a net-zero carbon emissions target for 2050. It passed the House 145-14.

March 18, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against the final law banning flavored tobacco and vaping products, including menthol cigarettes, and taxing vaping products at 75%. It passed the House 119-33.

November 21, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for a bill committing Massachusetts to the Paris climate agreement's emission goals. It passed the House 146-10.

November 1, 2017Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted against the final bill to speed up local permitting for land-based wind energy projects. It passed the House 96-51.

July 31, 2010Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for a bill requiring employers with 25 or more workers to list pay ranges in job postings. It passed the House 148-8.

October 4, 2023Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for the final 'grand bargain' law raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2023, creating paid family and medical leave, and making the sales tax holiday permanent. It passed the House 119-24.

June 20, 2018Supports Labor Rights

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Voted against the final law raising the state minimum wage to $11 an hour by 2017 and changing unemployment insurance. It passed the House 122-24.

June 18, 2014Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for the final law letting home-based family child care providers who serve low-income families unionize and bargain with the state. It passed the House 120-31.

July 26, 2012Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for the final PROTECT Act, which limits federal civil immigration arrests at courthouses, schools and hospitals and keeps state and local police out of immigration enforcement. It passed the House 137-21.

July 30, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted against overriding Governor Baker's veto of the Work and Family Mobility Act, which lets immigrants without legal status get driver's licenses. The House overrode the veto 119-36.

June 8, 2022Opposes Immigration

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Voted against a bill giving in-state college tuition rates to undocumented immigrant students who graduated from Massachusetts high schools. It failed in the House 57-96.

January 11, 2006Opposes Immigration

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Voted for the final $63.4 billion state budget for fiscal year 2027. It passed the House 142-6.

July 1, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against a $425 million emergency spending bill for the family shelter system that also tightened shelter eligibility. It passed the House 126-26.

February 6, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against the final Affordable Homes Act, a $5.16 billion housing bond and tax credit law that also allowed backyard in-law apartments statewide. It passed the House 128-24.

August 1, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against the final $251 million emergency shelter funding bill, which also set a nine-month limit on family shelter stays. It passed the House 123-35.

April 25, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against a House bill raising the gas tax by 5 cents and the diesel tax by 9 cents to pay for transportation. It passed the House 113-40.

March 4, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against overriding Governor Baker's veto of about $18 million in pay raises for legislative leaders, statewide officials and judges. The House overrode the veto 116-43.

February 2, 2017Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against a House transportation finance bill raising about $500 million a year through a 3-cent gas tax increase and a $1-a-pack cigarette tax increase. It passed the House 97-55.

April 8, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Filed a bill (H.2617) adding attacks on police officers that cause serious injury or death to the state's definition of a hate crime. It was sent to study in April 2026.

February 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for the final bill protecting school and public libraries from book bans and protecting librarians from retaliation. It passed the House 156-1.

July 31, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against re-enacting the law making phone and video calls free for people in Massachusetts prisons and jails. It passed the House 132-26.

November 8, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against the final police reform law that created a civilian-majority police licensing board and banned chokeholds. It passed the House 91-67.

December 1, 2020Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for the final criminal justice reform law (S.2371). It passed the House 148-5.

April 4, 2018Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against Governor Romney's bill to bring back the death penalty. It failed in the House 53-100.

November 15, 2005Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against the final Affordable Homes Act, a $5.16 billion housing bond and tax credit law that also allowed backyard in-law apartments statewide. It passed the House 128-24.

August 1, 2024Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against a $425 million emergency spending bill for the family shelter system that also tightened shelter eligibility. It passed the House 126-26.

February 6, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against the final $251 million emergency shelter funding bill, which also set a nine-month limit on family shelter stays. It passed the House 123-35.

April 25, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against the final state gun law that cracked down on untraceable ghost guns, banned guns in more public places and widened the red flag law. It passed the House 124-33.

July 18, 2024Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against the final red flag law letting family members and police ask a court to take guns from someone found to be a danger. It passed the House 133-15.

June 28, 2018Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for a House bill to reduce gun violence that tightened state gun laws. It passed the House 112-38.

July 9, 2014Supports Gun Control

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Voted against a law letting doctors perform abortions after 24 weeks based on their professional judgment, removing the list of allowed reasons. It passed the House 121-35.

July 31, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted against the final law expanding legal protections for people who provide or receive abortion and gender-affirming care in Massachusetts. It passed the House 132-24.

July 31, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Filed a bill (H.2428) to restrict abortions after the second trimester, rewriting the state's late-pregnancy abortion law. It was sent to study in March 2026.

February 27, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted against the final law shielding abortion and gender-affirming care providers and patients in Massachusetts from out-of-state legal action. It passed the House 137-16.

July 26, 2022Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted against overriding Governor Baker's veto of the ROE Act, which wrote abortion rights into state law and let 16- and 17-year-olds get abortions without parental consent. The House overrode the veto 107-46.

December 28, 2020Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for a bill writing no-cost birth control coverage into state law. It passed the House 140-16.

November 8, 2017Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted against the final law protecting access to reproductive health clinics, passed after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state's clinic buffer zone. It passed the House 119-33.

July 29, 2014Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Filed a bill (H.833) requiring voters to show identification at the polls. It was sent to study in April 2026.

February 27, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for the final tax relief law worth about $1 billion a year, which more than doubled the state child and dependent tax credit. It passed the House 155-1.

September 27, 2023Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted against the final law expanding legal protections for people who provide or receive abortion and gender-affirming care in Massachusetts. It passed the House 132-24.

July 31, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted against the final law shielding abortion and gender-affirming care providers and patients in Massachusetts from out-of-state legal action. It passed the House 137-16.

July 26, 2022Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted against the final VOTES Act, which made mail-in voting and expanded early voting permanent. It passed the House 126-29.

June 16, 2022Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for a bill banning conversion therapy for minors. It passed the House 149-8.

March 13, 2019Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for the final automatic voter registration law. It passed the House 134-16.

July 27, 2018Supports Civil Rights

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Voted against a bill banning discrimination against transgender people in public places such as restaurants and stores. It passed the House 116-36.

June 1, 2016Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted against the final law adding gender identity to state anti-discrimination and hate crime laws, protecting transgender people in jobs, housing and credit. It passed the House 94-60.

November 16, 2011Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted against a bill repealing the 1913 law that blocked most out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in Massachusetts. It passed the House 119-36.

July 29, 2008Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted against a House bill raising the gas tax by 5 cents and the diesel tax by 9 cents to pay for transportation. It passed the House 113-40.

March 4, 2020Opposes Public Infrastructure

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Voted against a House transportation finance bill raising about $500 million a year through a 3-cent gas tax increase and a $1-a-pack cigarette tax increase. It passed the House 97-55.

April 8, 2013Opposes Public Infrastructure

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Voted for a House bill that opened some Legislature and governor's office records to the public and set limits on the state auditor's review of the Legislature. It passed the House 125-28.

June 3, 2026

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Voted for a bill banning student cellphone use during the school day and barring social media accounts for children under 14. It passed the House 129-25.

April 8, 2026

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Voted for the House energy bill that cut about $1 billion from the Mass Save efficiency program, returned some clean-energy payments to ratepayers, and eased limits on nuclear power. It passed the House 128-27.

February 26, 2026

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Voted for the House rewrite of the voter-approved recreational marijuana law, which raised the retail marijuana tax from 12% to 28%. It passed the House 126-28.

June 21, 2017

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Voted for the 2015-2016 House rules package, which ended the eight-year term limit on the House speaker. It passed the House 114-40.

January 29, 2015

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Voted against a bill to raise the charter school cap in low-performing districts and give those districts new school turnaround tools. It passed the House 114-35.

May 21, 2014

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Voted for the final expanded gaming law allowing up to three resort casinos and one slot parlor. It passed the House 124-30.

November 16, 2011

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Voted against the final bill joining Massachusetts to the national popular vote compact for electing the president. It passed the House 116-34.

July 20, 2010

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Voted for the law letting the governor appoint an interim U.S. senator until a special election is held. It passed the House 95-59.

September 23, 2009

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Voted against the bill allowing embryonic stem cell research in Massachusetts, passed by a veto-proof margin over Governor Romney's objections. It passed the House 117-37.

March 31, 2005

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