Kelly A. Dooner

Co-sponsored a rules change barring votes on final House-Senate compromise bills filed in the last 72 hours of formal sessions, unless every member agreed. The Senate rejected it 6-32.

February 12, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for a rules change giving lawmakers 48 hours to read a final House-Senate compromise bill before voting on it. The Senate rejected it 5-33.

February 12, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Co-sponsored a budget amendment giving the inspector general $300,000 to investigate spending by the Group Insurance Commission, which insures public employees. The Senate rejected it 4-35.

May 20, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Filed a bill requiring applicants for state cash assistance to provide a Social Security number, with some exceptions. The committee sent it to a study order, ending it for the session.

November 26, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Co-sponsored an amendment ordering the Senate's oversight committee to investigate safety and security lapses in the emergency shelter program and report by Sept. 12, 2025. The Senate rejected it 6-32.

February 12, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted against the Senate's PROTECT Act, which limits how state and local police work with federal immigration enforcement. The Senate passed it 37-3.

May 7, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted for the final $63.4 billion fiscal year 2027 state budget. The Senate approved it 39-1.

July 1, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against the final fiscal year 2026 state budget worked out by House and Senate negotiators. The Senate approved it 38-2.

June 30, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against a $425 million budget bill that funded the emergency shelter system and tightened some eligibility rules. She called it fiscally irresponsible. It passed the Senate 32-7.

February 26, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Co-sponsored an amendment requiring background checks on every emergency shelter applicant, covering state, national and international criminal records, immigration status and sex offender registries. The Senate rejected it 12-26.

February 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Filed a budget amendment giving towns next to MBTA service areas two more years to comply with the MBTA Communities multifamily zoning law. The Senate rejected it 5-34.

May 20, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability

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Filed a bill to address rising insurance costs for manufactured home owners. The Financial Services Committee rewrote it as a special commission to study the problem and advanced it.

January 29, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Co-sponsored a budget amendment letting towns appeal for relief from the MBTA Communities multifamily zoning law over water, sewer, road or environmental limits. The Senate rejected it 5-34.

May 22, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability

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Filed a bill exempting towns next to MBTA service areas without direct transit access from the MBTA Communities multifamily zoning law. It was referred to committee and heard on July 29, 2025.

February 27, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against repealing Learnfare, a 1995 law letting the state cut family cash aid when a child has too many unexcused school absences. The repeal passed the Senate 36-4.

May 20, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Filed a bill limiting emergency shelter to citizens and legal residents who had lived in Massachusetts for 12 straight months. The Housing Committee sent it to a study order, ending it for the session.

December 4, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Co-sponsored an amendment limiting the state's emergency family shelter program to citizens and legal residents who had lived in Massachusetts for 12 straight months. The Senate rejected it 6-32.

February 12, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against the Shield Act, which bars state agencies and police from helping out-of-state or federal investigations into reproductive and transgender care that is legal in Massachusetts. It passed the Senate 37-3.

June 26, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Co-sponsored an amendment to remove a provision shielding millionaire's tax revenue from the state tax cap that triggers taxpayer refunds. The Senate rejected it 5-32.

February 26, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted for the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, which gives residents rights over the personal data companies collect and lets them opt out of its sale. The Senate passed it 40-0.

September 25, 2025Supports Data Privacy

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Filed an amendment, with Sen. Ryan Fattman, to strike a budget section letting utility rate increases take effect after 60 days if regulators had not acted. The Senate rejected it 6-33.

June 18, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted against the Senate bill setting rules for public access to the Legislature's own records (An Act promoting transparency and public access in state government). It passed 34-6.

July 30, 2026

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Voted against a bill requiring social media platforms to use default settings for minors that limit addictive features. The Senate passed it 38-2.

July 9, 2026

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Voted against the Senate energy affordability and clean power bill. The Senate passed it 32-8.

July 1, 2026

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Voted against a bill aimed at making it easier to find a primary care doctor and cutting paperwork for providers. The Senate passed it 35-4.

June 18, 2026

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Sponsored a law giving Berkley voters the power to recall elected town officials. The governor signed it as Chapter 97 of the Acts of 2026.

June 10, 2026

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Voted against Senate resolutions that agreed to give some records to State Auditor Diana DiZoglio but kept the Senate's objection to being audited. She said sending the records did not need a resolution. They passed 33-6.

May 28, 2026

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Sponsored a law letting Taunton set a separate water billing rate for manufactured housing communities served by one master meter. The governor signed it as Chapter 80 of the Acts of 2026.

May 14, 2026

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Voted against a $3.67 billion environmental bond bill because of its 10-cent fee on paper bags, which she called a tax. The Senate passed it 36-3.

April 15, 2026

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Voted against the final bill overhauling state cannabis laws, which replaced the Cannabis Control Commission with a smaller board. The Senate passed it 33-6.

April 9, 2026

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Filed a bill letting cities and towns freeze property tax assessments for eligible homes. The committee sent it to a study order, ending it for the session.

November 26, 2025

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Voted against resolutions withdrawing all past Massachusetts requests for a national convention to amend the U.S. Constitution. The Senate adopted them 34-4.

November 19, 2025

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Voted against a bill setting statewide rules for how school libraries choose books and handle challenges to them (the free expression bill). The Senate passed it 35-3.

November 13, 2025

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Voted against a bill requiring public schools to ban student cellphone use during classes starting in the 2026-2027 school year. The Senate passed it 38-2.

July 31, 2025

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Co-sponsored a budget amendment raising the estate tax exemption so estates worth $3 million or less paid no Massachusetts estate tax. The Senate rejected it 5-34.

May 22, 2025

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Won the Nov. 5, 2024, general election for the Third Bristol and Plymouth state Senate seat with 45,777 votes. Democrat Joseph Pacheco got 44,137 and unenrolled candidate James Dupont got 4,737.

November 5, 2024

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Won election as president of the Taunton City Council on Jan. 3, 2023, by a 9-0 roll call vote of the council.

January 3, 2023

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Voted as a Taunton city councilor against an ordinance setting the city's limit on recreational marijuana stores at nine licenses. It passed 5-1, with one councilor voting present.

October 18, 2022

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