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State Representative Daniel E. Bosley Biographical Information
The Honorable Daniel E. Bosley of North Adams is currently serving in his 11th term as the State Representative of the First Berkshire District. Representative Bosley has served as a committee chairman for the past 14 years. Presently, Representative Bosley serves concurrently as a both a member of the Speaker’s House Leadership Team and as the House Chairman of the influential Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies.
In just his first term as the House Chairman of Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies Representative Bosley has proven to be a key leader in the areas of fiscal policy and economic development. He was the principal House architect of the Commonwealth's precedent setting stem cell research statute, which has been cited as a national model for such legislation and was instrumental in crafting the recently enacted $347,000,000 economic stimulus legislation, designed to encourage and support the growth and development of business and improve the state's economy.
Prior to his service as House Chair of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies Representative Bosley served for nine years as House Chair of the prominent Joint Committee on Government Regulations which, until January 2005, was the legislative committee responsible for oversight of all regulated industries in the Commonwealth, including public utilities, alcoholic beverages, telecommunications, professional licensure, lottery, racing and gaming. The hallmark of Representative Bosley’s service as House Chair of the Joint Committee on Government Regulations was his authorship of the landmark electric restructuring act of 1997. Due largely to the diligence and foresight of Representative Bosley, the electric restructuring law has save Massachusetts’s ratepayers over $3 billion since 1997, eliminated upwards of $10 billion in so-called “stranded costs”, significantly increased generation capacity to keep up with record demands all while leading to the largest continuous investment in renewable energy and efficiency programs of any state in the United States.
Representative Bosley’s first appointment as a committee chairman came in 1992 when he was appointed House Chairman of the Joint Committee on Commerce and Labor. In his first term as House Chairman of Commerce and Labor Representative Bosley demonstrated the acuity of a more seasoned member with his sponsorship of a comprehensive economic development bill. This groundbreaking and innovative legislation created so-called “economic opportunity areas,” tripled the investment tax credit, established the tax incremental financing mechanism, and appropriated $15 million into an emerging technologies fund. The economic impact and success of this legislation can only be described as profound—in fact, as of July 2005 the Massachusetts Office of Business Development has credited the so called “Bosley Economic Development Bill of 1993” with creating over 1,000 certified economic development projects, over $7.9 billion in private investment, and the retention of over 97,000 existing jobs and the creation of over 55,000 new full time jobs.
In addition to the economic stimulus legislation, as House Chair of Commerce and Labor Representative Bosley was the architect of comprehensive legislation which updated Commonwealth’s antiquated unemployment insurance system. Bosley’s work on UI reform led to an immediate savings of approximately $180 million and annual cost savings estimated at $90 million.
In addition to his duties as chairman, Representative Bosley founded the Legislature’s Literacy Caucus, which was instrumental in securing the first ever budget appropriation for adult basic education and literacy. Under the guidance of Representative Bosley, what was an initial $4 million appropriation as part of the Education Reform Act of 1993 has increased to over $30 million in FY ‘06.
Representative Bosley is also a former National Chairman of the Council of State Governments (2004) and has also served as Chairman of the Council’s Eastern Regional Conference (CSG/ERC), its Export Promotion Task Force and as Chair of the Electric Deregulation Task Force. In 1996, he was instrumental in establishing the Eastern Trade Council, an 11 member jurisdiction, a regional trade institute to promote regional cooperation to increase exports from the Northeast. In addition, Representative Bosley serves as a member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Board in the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
First elected as State Representative in 1986, Representative Bosley is currently serving his tenth term. A cum laude graduate of North Adams State College, with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science Bosley received his Master of Arts in Public Policy from the University of Massachusetts, and in 2001, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Representative Bosley lives in North Adams with his wife of 24 years, Laura, and his daughter, Stephanie, a freshman at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.