{"id":4701,"date":"2015-05-21T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T19:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsunderthedome.org\/malc\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2015-05-21T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T19:39:09","slug":"ma-senate-budget-update-amendments-for-mott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artistsunderthedome.org\/malc\/legislation\/ma-senate-budget-update-amendments-for-mott\/","title":{"rendered":"MA Senate Budget Update: Amendments for MOTT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Senate is back in session and this afternoon it voted on two amendments MALC had flagged.\u00a0Both amendments, if passed, \u00a0would have increased the funding of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massvacation.com\">Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism (MOTT)<\/a><\/strong>. <b>Both amendments <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did not pass<\/span>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mafilm.org\">MA\u00a0Film Office<\/a> <\/b>is under<b> MOTT. \u00a0<\/b>MOTT\u2019s marketing, and through its regional offices of travel and tourism, supports art, culture, and the creative economy.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><b>Amendment 472 <\/b><strong>had been placed into what is called a bundle<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThis \u00a0means that Senate Leadership \u00a0grouped many amendments together and voted on them all with a single yes or no vote. <strong>This bundle received a no vote.<\/strong>\u00a0There was no roll call vote taken, so there is no record on how the senators voted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><b>Amendment 475 was rejected.<\/b><br \/>\nThere was no roll call vote taken, so there is no record on how the senators voted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To track voting on Senate Budget Amendments:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Budget\/FY2016\/Senate\/ChamberActions\">https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Budget\/FY2016\/Senate\/ChamberActions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To watch it live:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Events\/EventDetail?eventId=2171&amp;eventDataSource=Sessions\">https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Events\/EventDetail?eventId=2171&amp;eventDataSource=Sessions<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Full text of Amendments 472 &amp; 475 to increase the funding of (MOTT)<\/h5>\n<p><b>ECO 472 Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism (Senator Eric Lesser is the lead sponsor)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Lesser, Ms. Lovely, Mr. McGee, Ms. O\u2019Connor Ives and Mr. Barrett moved that the bill be amended, in Section 2, in item 7008-0900, by striking out the figure \u201c$7,500,000\u201d and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- \u201c$10,000,000\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>ECO 475 Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism International Marketing (Senator Eric Lesser is the lead sponsor)\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Lesser, Ms. Donoghue and Ms. O\u2019Connor Ives moved that the bill be amended in Section 2, by inserting after item 7008-1000 the following item:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c7008-1015 For the office of travel and tourism for marketing the commonwealth in international markets to foreign travelers to increase visitation and spending from foreign countries\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026$1,500,000\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Senate is back in session and this afternoon it voted on two amendments MALC had flagged.\u00a0Both amendments, if passed, \u00a0would have increased the funding of the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism (MOTT). 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It is important to note that the MA\u00a0Film Office is under MOTT. \u00a0MOTT\u2019s marketing, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[125,40,33,25,18],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","tag-125","tag-creative-economy","tag-cultural-workforce","tag-economy","tag-massachusetts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MA Senate Budget Update: Amendments for MOTT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today, the Senate voted on two amendments. 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