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The secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.Originally appointed under authority of the English Crown pursuant to the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the office of secretary of the Commonwealth (equivalent to "secretaries of state" in other U.S. jurisdictions) became an elective one in 1780.
Prior to 2005, each state designed its own driver's license according to its own standards. In 2005, the U.S. Congress passed a controversial bill known as the REAL ID Act, which established uniform standards for the design and content of state drivers' licenses and delegated authority to the Department of Homeland Security to implement and regulate compliance with the Act.
The state has an open-meeting law enforced by the attorney general, and a public-records law enforced by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. A 2008 report by the Better Government Association and National Freedom of Information Coalition ranked Massachusetts 43rd out of the 50 US states in government transparency.
t. e. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS) [3] is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that administers the country's naturalization and immigration system. It is a successor to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which was dissolved by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and replaced by ...
Galvin was born and raised in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. [1] He attended Saint Mary's High School in Waltham, Massachusetts [2] and graduated in 1968. [3] Galvin graduated cum laude [4] from Boston College in 1972 [5] and received a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School [6] in 1976. [4]
On Thursday, Gov. Maura Healey (D-Mass.) signed an executive order to eliminate “unnecessary” degree requirements from most state job listings. Announcing the change in a speech at the Boston ...
In 1969, the state legislature passed a bill introduced by Governor John A. Volpe and backed by his successor, Francis Sargent, that reorganized the state government under a cabinet-style system. The bill, which went into effect in 1971, reorganized the state government into 10 executive offices led by secretaries who served at the pleasure of ...
Jane Swift. Jane Maria Swift (born February 24, 1965) is an American politician and nonprofit executive who served as the 69th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1999 to 2003 and, concurrently, as acting governor from April 2001 to January 2003. [note 1] She was the first woman to perform the duties of governor of Massachusetts.