Cabinet secretaries and executive department chiefs serve at the pleasure of the Governor. Most other agencies are grouped under one of the eight Executive Offices for administrative purposes. The Governor's chief fiscal officer is the Secretary of Administration and Finance. The activities of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance fall within six broad categories: i administrative and fiscal supervision, including supervision of the implementation of the Commonwealth's annual budget and monitoring of all agency expenditures during the fiscal year; ii enforcement of the Commonwealth's tax laws and collection of tax revenues through the Department of Revenue for remittance to the State Treasurer; iii human resource management, including administration of the state personnel system, civil service system and employee benefit programs and negotiation of collective bargaining agreements with certain of the Commonwealth's public employee unions; iv capital facilities management, including coordinating and overseeing the construction, management and leasing of all state facilities; v the development and implementation of the Commonwealth's 5 year capital plan; and vi administration of general services, including information technology services.
The Secretary of Administration and Finance also serves as a member of numerous other state boards and commissions.
The State Treasurer has four primary statutory responsibilities: i the collection of all state revenues other than small amounts of funds held by certain agencies ; ii the management of both short-term and long-term investments of Commonwealth funds other than the state employee and teacher pension funds , including all cash receipts; iii the disbursement of Commonwealth monies and oversight of reconciliation of the state's accounts; and iv the issuance of almost all debt obligations of the Commonwealth, including notes, commercial paper and long-term bonds.
The State Treasurer also serves as a member of numerous other state boards and commissions, including the Municipal Finance Oversight Board. The State Auditor is charged with improving the efficiency of state government by auditing the administration and expenditure of public funds and reporting the findings to the public.
The State Auditor reviews the activities and operations of approximately state entities and contract compliance of private vendors doing business with the Commonwealth. The Attorney General represents the Commonwealth in all legal proceedings in both the state and federal courts, including defending the Commonwealth in actions in which a state law or executive action is challenged. The Attorney General also brings actions to enforce environmental and consumer protection statutes, among others, and represents the Commonwealth in public utility and automobile rate-setting procedures.
The Attorney General works in conjunction with the general counsels of the various state agencies and executive departments to coordinate and monitor all pending litigation. Accounting policies and practices, publication of official financial reports and oversight of fiscal management functions are the responsibility of the Comptroller. The Comptroller also administers the Commonwealth's annual state single audit and manages the state accounting system.
The Comptroller is appointed by the Governor for a term coterminous with the Governor's and may be removed by the Governor only for cause. The annual financial reports of the Commonwealth, single audit reports and any rules and regulations promulgated by the Comptroller must be reviewed by an advisory board. This board is chaired by the Secretary of Administration and Finance and includes the State Treasurer, the Attorney General, the State Auditor, the Chief Administrative Justice of the Trial Court and two persons with relevant experience appointed by the Governor for three-year terms.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth is responsible for collection and storage of public records and archives, securities regulation, state elections, administration of state lobbying laws and custody of the seal of the Commonwealth.
The Legislature formally called the General Court is the bicameral legislative body of the Commonwealth, consisting of a Senate of 40 members and a House of Representatives of members. Members of the Senate and the House are elected to two-year terms in even-numbered years.
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. Incumbent Charles D. Baker defeated Jay Gonzalez in the general election for Governor of Massachusetts on November 6, Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. There were no incumbents in this race. When the lieutenant governor takes over, his or her official title is 'Lieutenant Governor, Acting Governor'.
Regardless of the officer who takes over as acting governor, that individual shall have all the powers and rights of the elected governor, if not the title. If a governor-elect dies without taking office, the individual elected on the same ballot as the lieutenant governor shall take office and serve as the governor.
Any time a sitting Governor communicates in writing to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of House of Representatives that he or she is unable to discharge the office, that action shall be taken to consider the office of the governor vacant.
At any time, the Chief Justice and a majority of the Associate Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Court may deliver an opinion to the Senate and House that they have found the governor unfit to discharge the office; in such an instance, the governorship shall also be considered to be vacant.
Whether a governor declared himself or herself temporarily unfit or the courts found him or her unfit, the governor may deliver, to the legislature, a written statement that he or she is fit to return to office.
Unless the Supreme Court contests that declaration, the governor shall return to office within four days. If the Supreme Court does challenge the governor's return to office, Article XCI of the Amendments to the Constitution lays out a process for hearing and a final decision. Regardless of who initiated the decision about the governor's disability, if that disability continues for six months and if more than five months remain until the next biennial election, a special election shall be held for the remainder of the governor's term.
As one of America's oldest constitutions, many of the original duties assigned to the governor have been annulled or superseded by over two centuries of amendments. Under the organization of the Massachusetts Constitution, all amendments are listed separately in Articles of Amendment, Massachusetts Constitution , which itself runs to discrete items. Massachusetts' governor is the commander-in-chief of the state's militia, which he or she may assemble for training and parade as well as for actual military functions.
Within legal parameters, the governor may also give periodic advice on the organization and regulation of the militia. Regarding vetoes, if the governor communicates an objection to a bill and the legislature adjourns before he or she is able to deliver his objections, that bill shall not take effect or have any force of law.
The governor may not veto a law passed by the voters, through the General Court may amend or repeal such a law. Note: Ballotpedia's state executive officials project researches state official websites for information that describes the divisions if any exist of a state executive office. That information for the Governor of Massachusetts has not yet been added. After extensive research we were unable to identify any relevant information on state official websites.
The state operates on an annual budget cycle. The sequence of key events in the budget process is as follows: [4]. Massachusetts is one of 44 states in which the governor has line item veto authority. The governor is legally required to submit a balanced budget proposal. Likewise, the legislature is legally required to pass a balanced budget.
The Massachusetts Constitution states that the governor should have a fixed and permanent salary, decided upon by the State Legislature, which would be revisited if the salary was deemed insufficient. There have been 68 Governors of Massachusetts since From , in Massachusetts there were Democratic governors in office for the last seven years while there were Republican governors in office for the first 15 years.
During the last seven years of the study Massachusetts was under Democratic trifectas. Across the country, there were years of Democratic governors Over the course of the year study, state governments became increasingly more partisan. At the outset of the study period , 18 of the 49 states with partisan legislatures had single-party trifectas and 31 states had divided governments.
In , only 13 states had divided governments, while single-party trifectas held sway in 36 states, the most in the 22 years studied. The chart below shows the partisan composition of the Office of the Governor of Massachusetts , the Massachusetts State Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives from to The chart below depicts the partisanship of the Massachusetts state government and the state's SQLI ranking for the years studied.
For the SQLI, the states were ranked from , with 1 being the best and 50 the worst. Massachusetts had a period of divided government between and before electing a Democratic trifecta in Cooperation Between Individuals and Elected Leaders 4.
Public Service as a Career 4. Liberty in Conflict with Equality or Authority 4. The Role of Political Protest 4. The Necessary and Proper Clause 5. Amendments to the Constitution 5. Marbury v. Madison and the Principle of Judicial Review 5. Significant Supreme Court Decisions Topic 6.
Functions of State and National Government 6. United States and Massachusetts Constitutions 6. Enumerated and Implied Powers 6.
Additional Provisions of the Massachusetts Constitution 6. Responsibilities of Federal, State and Local Government 6. Leadership Structure of the Massachusetts Government 6. Tax-Supported Facilities and Services 6. Components of Local Government Topic 7. Freedom of the Press 7. Competing Information in a Free Press 7. Digital News and Social Media 7. Evaluating Print and Online Media 7. Massachusetts Standards [8. Components of Local Government.
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