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An Act providing for the creation of a special commission relative to the impact on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the World Trade Organization and similar international agreements. |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows:
Chapter 3 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section:--
Section 69. A permanent special commission is hereby established for the purpose of evaluating the continuing impacts on state laws and regulations by international trade agreements defined as any agreement reached between the United States Government and any other country of countries or other international political entity or entities that includes, but is not limited to, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and agreements with the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Said Commission shall report to the legislature and to our federally elected officials and to the public on such impacts. The commission shall recommend when the commonwealth may support or withhold support for any proposed revisions or amendments to WTO agreements, NAFTA agreements, GATS, FTAA, and similar instruments.
Said commission shall consist of 3 members of the senate, 3 members of the house of representatives, the governor or his designee, the attorney general or his designee, the treasurer of the commonwealth or his designee, and 4 persons appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be a representative of organized labor, one of whom shall be a representative of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, one of whom shall be a member of a graduate faculty of economics of a private university in the commonwealth, and one of whom shall be a member of a graduate faculty of economics of the University of Massachusetts.