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Dylan A. Fernandes

Democratic · MA · Massachusetts State Senator, Plymouth and Barnstable District

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Dylan Fernandes represents Plymouth, Falmouth, Pembroke, Bourne, Sandwich, Mashpee and Kingston in the Massachusetts Senate, focusing on the environment, affordable housing and the opioid epidemic. He served in the Massachusetts House from 2017 to 2025 and has had more than 30 bills signed into law.

Where Dylan A. Fernandes stands, based on their records

Supports

Environment and Public Health (2 records), Data Privacy (1 record)

Track record

Track record — Environment and Public Health

Environment and Public Health · 2 support

  • Dylan A. Fernandes presented Massachusetts Senate Bill S.2680, legislation to improve public-health and safety standards near aging nuclear power plants and high-level nuclear-waste sites.

    February 13, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: malegislature.gov · researched August 20, 2026

  • Filed a bill proposing to promote natural carbon sequestration — using forests, wetlands and soils to soak up carbon dioxide. A committee backed it in October 2025 and sent it to Senate Ways and Means (Senate Bill 604).

    January 16, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: malegislature.gov · researched August 20, 2026

Track record — Data Privacy

Data Privacy · 1 support

  • Filed a Massachusetts Senate bill to set rules and enforcement for biometric recognition technology, meaning systems that identify people by body traits such as faces or fingerprints (Senate Bill 36). The stated aim was protecting residents from abusive use of their biometric information. The Senate referred it to the committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity in February 2025, and the last recorded action, in May 2025, lists it as accompanying Senate Bill 43.

    January 14, 2025Supports Data Privacy

    Source: malegislature.gov · researched August 20, 2026

Track record — General

General · 3 records

  • Dylan A. Fernandes served as chair of the Joint Committee on Agriculture and Fisheries and vice chair of the Joint Committees on Cannabis Policy and Environment and Natural Resources.

    August 19, 2026

    Source: malegislature.gov · researched August 20, 2026

  • Dylan A. Fernandes served eight years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and passed 30 pieces of legislation into law.

    December 31, 2024

    Source: malegislature.gov · researched August 20, 2026

  • Dylan A. Fernandes served in the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office Civil Rights Division and later as the office's digital director.

    December 31, 2016

    Source: malegislature.gov · researched August 20, 2026

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Profile last researched August 7, 2026.