Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission
The Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission works to provide uniform control over the sale, purchase, transportation, manufacture, and possession of alcoholic beverages in the state. Decisions include the grant or denial of license applications, as well as suspensions of licenses of restaurants, stores, and wholesalers.
Appellate Tax Board
The Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board is an agency that conducts hearings and renders decisions on appeals from any state or local taxing authority. Cases the Board hears include: property tax, corporate excise, income tax, bank excise, sales and use tax, and automobile and other excises.
Attorney General Division of Open Government
Determinations and advisory opinions addressing potential violations of the Open Meeting Law by public bodies.
Bid Protest Decisions of the Attorney General
Contains bid protest decisions from 2003 to the present in addition to some decisions from 1989-2002.
Board of Bar Overseers
The Board of Bar Overseers is an independent administrative body which investigates and evaluates complaints against attorneys and considers disciplinary actions.
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
The Board of Conciliation and Arbitration provides mediation, investigation, adjudication, and litigation of the Commonwealth’s collective bargaining laws to foster and improve relationships between public employers and their employees.
Bureau of Special Education Appeals
The Bureau of Special Education Appeals works to resolve disputes among parents, school districts, private schools, and state agencies through mediation, advisory opinions, and hearings. It oversees eligibility, evaluation, placement, individualized education programs, special education services, and procedural protections for students with disabilities.
Board of Registration in Medicine
The Board of Registration in Medicine is a department of the Health and Human Services. It ensures that licensed physicians are qualified, competent, ethical, and provide their patients with high quality care.
Civil Service Commission
The Civil Service Commission is an impartial, independent appellate board that hears and decides appeals filed by certain state and municipal civil service employees and candidates seeking public employment.
Contributory Retirement Appeal Board
The Contributory Retirement Appeal Board hears appeals of decisions made by state, county, and municipal retirement boards.
Department of Environmental Protection
The Department of Environmental Protection protects human health by enforcing regulations pertaining to air quality and water resources, ensuring a safe environment after a timely cleanup of hazardous waste, and preserving wetlands and coastal resources.
Department of Industrial Accidents
The Department of Industrial Accidents is responsible for overseeing the Workers Compensation system in Massachusetts. It provides help and support to injured workers, employers, insurers, and attorneys.
Department of Public Health
The Department of Public Health works to promote health and wellness by inspecting and licensing a wide range of businesses and individuals. It oversees vendor compliance with the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, as well as the food protection program. DPH also reviews and can suspend or deny licenses for EMTs, Certified Nurse’s Assistants, home care aides, alcohol and drug counselors (LADC), as well as licensing substance abuse and long-term care centers.
Department of Public Safety
The Department of Public Safety is a board within the Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. DPH oversees building accessibility for individuals with disabilities; and inspects and licenses building construction, heavy machinery, boilers, elevators, amusement rides, and power plants.
Department of Public Utilities (formerly DTE)
The Department of Public Utilities is responsible for oversight of investor-owned electric power, natural gas, and water utilities in the Commonwealth; developing alternatives to traditional regulation; monitoring service quality; regulating safety in the transportation and gas pipeline areas; and for certain aspects associated with the siting of energy facilities.
Division of Insurance
The Division of Insurance licenses insurance companies, reviews and approves rates and forms, coordinates the takeover and liquidation of insolvent insurance companies and the rehabilitation of financially troubled companies, and investigates complaints by consumers.
Department of Labor Relations (formerly LRC)
The Department of Labor Relations investigates unfair labor practice cases in the public sector, defines appropriate bargaining units, holds elections for public employees, provides mediation in labor disputes and contract negotiations, enforces special collective bargaining laws, and defends and enforces DLR decisions.
Energy Facilities Siting Board
The Siting Board's primary function is to license the construction of major energy infrastructure in Massachusetts, including large power plants, electric transmission lines, natural gas pipelines and natural gas storage facilities.
Fair Labor and Business Practices DALA
Preliminary and final decisions on appeal from the Office of the Attorney General’s Fair Labor and Business Practice. Heard by the Division of Administrative Law Appeals (DALA).
Health Professions Licensure
Disciplinary and licensing decisions from 10 health care boards:
• Board of Registration in Nursing
• Board of Registration in Pharmacy
• Board of Registration in Dentistry
• Board of Registration of Chiropractors
• Board of Registration of Dietitians and Nutritionists
• Board of Registration of Hearing Instrument Specialists
• Board of Registration of Genetic Counselors
• Board of Registration of Perfusionists
• Board of Registration of Physician Assistants
• Board of Respiratory Care
• Board of Registration in Naturopathy
• Board of Certification of Community Health Workers
• Board of Registration of Nursing Home Administrators
• Drug Control Program
Housing Appeals Committee
The Housing Appeals Committee provides opportunities to hear and resolve concerns about planning, environmental issues, open space, design, health, safety, and other local concerns arising from the siting of new affordable housing.
Joint Labor Management Committee
The Joint Labor Management Committee is a neutral agency charged with administering the Commonwealth's collective bargaining statutes. The Department exercises jurisdiction over public sector employers, including all municipal police and firefighters and the labor organizations that represent their employees. This database contains arbitration decisions and awards.
Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination enforces the state’s anti-discrimination laws in areas such as employment, housing, credit, public accommodations, and access to education while protecting individuals in a range of protected categories (i.e. race, color, creed, national origin, age, disability, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation).
Office of the Attorney General
The Attorney General is the chief lawyer and law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth. The office is an advocate and resource for the Commonwealth and its residents in many areas, including protecting consumers, combating fraud and corruption, protecting civil rights, and promoting meaningful economic recovery. This database contains advisory opinions offering the office’s interpretation of state law.
State Ethics Commission
The State Ethics Commission strives to foster integrity in public service in state, county and local government, promote the public’s trust and confidence in that service, and prevent conflicts between private interests and public duties. The Commission offers advisory opinions as well as enforcement actions against current and former state employees who engage in bribery, prohibited gifts, financial conflicts, and other code of conduct violations.