2024 State Senate Middlesex & Suffolk District
The Senate is comprised of 40 members, with each Senator elected to represent a district of approximately 159,000 people and each elected for a two-year term. As required by the Massachusetts Constitution, the Senate meets year-round in either formal or informal sessions to consider legislation. The Massachusetts Senate is led by the President of the Senate who is elected by the members of the body at the beginning of each two-year legislative session. Base salary for each Senator is approximately $66,256.
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Sal N. DiDomenico
(Dem)
Do you support election day voter registration? Why or why not?
What actions should the legislature take to address the climate emergency?
What should the legislature do to increase the supply of affordable and middle-market housing in Massachusetts?
What measures would you support to deal with the needs of the large number of immigrants coming to Massachusetts?
What are your priorities for dealing with transportation statewide and in your district?
Yes, I support election day registration. Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy, and it is paramount that we ensure our electoral process is easily accessible for eligible voters of all ages, voting knowledge, and backgrounds. Soon after coming into office, I took part in crafting the Election Laws Reform Act, which was a major step in improving our previously outdated voting laws. This crucial piece of legislation included early voting, online voter registration, post-election audits of voting machines, and pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds. Ten years later we are in need of another set of reforms to keep our election laws updated with the needs of our residents and election day voter registration should be a top priority.
The legislature must continue to accelerate the deployment of clean energy across our state, decarbonize and retrofit every sector of our economy from housing to transportation to buildings, and transition off fossil fuel heating sources as fast and as safely as possible. I am proud to lead on siting reforms that will speed up the adoption of renewable energy while also protecting the interests and well-being of Environmental Justice communities in my district and across our state. I have also filed legislation that would drastically improve recycling of all packaging products, expand funding for community-based climate change projects, and I have advocated for climate resilience funding to protect our communities from natural disasters.
The first step is to pass the final version of the Housing Bond bill into law, which invests billions of dollars into public housing, housing affordability and initiatives for first-time homebuyers. It is also important that we continue to invest in our local Housing Authorities throughout Massachusetts. Another necessary component of building up our affordable and middle market housing stock would be passing my bill to reform the Housing Development Incentives Program (HDIP). This proposal would ensure that the state is helping to expand the number of affordable and middle market housing units in gateway cities all across the Commonwealth.
I will continue to support right to shelter in our state to ensure every person coming to Massachusetts in need will have a place to stay. We must also keep investing in programs and outreach to help immigrants get their work authorizations, find permanent housing, have access to all the food they need, and ensure their children are safe and enrolled in public schools.
Improving transportation in our state is a complex issue that needs investment and bold thinking from the state. Locally, I have advocated for adding a commuter rail stop in my district and extending the silver line to ensure more people can use the T in my communities. More broadly for our region, we need to focus on better connectivity, more bus rapid transit, making our existing stations more physically accessible for people of all abilities, reducing fares on buses, and investing in the MBTA consistently so we can prioritize safety and reliability for all our residents. Improving public transportation improves the ways our cities connect, and also reduces traffic congestion and parking limitations for individuals that must drive.
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