Committee for Health Care for Massachusetts v. Secretary of the Commonwealth

Ten registered voters of the Commonwealth, some of whom signed a petition proposing an initiative amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution that would require the enactment of laws making health insurance coverage available to all Massachusetts residents, brought this action in the county court seeking a remedy for the failure of the joint session of the Legislature to vote on the amendment prior to adjourning on January 2, 2007.2 The case was reserved and reported to the full court without decision by a single justice.

*776The consideration of proposals to amend the Massachusetts Constitution…