Representative Simon Cataldo, chair of the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism, called the commission’s sixteenth meeting to order and led a final roll-call vote approving a master report the panel described as the first legislatively created effort of its kind in the United States.

The adopted master report, the commission said, contains 118 findings and 61 recommendations covering five subject-matter areas, including K–12 schools, higher education, law enforcement, public safety, and statewide reporting. Cataldo noted the commission had held 16 hearings, heard approximately 215 speakers and collected roughly 50 hours of testimony in producing the draft.

“We will not send anything to the clerk of the House and the Senate ... until November 30, consistent with our statutory obligation to do so,” Cataldo said, and later added during the voting sequence: “So the vote is the vote.” The commission also authorized the chair and co‑chairs to make purely technical changes after the meeting — such as fixing typos or adding missing names to an appendix — but barred substantive edits after the transmission deadline.

Several amendments and edits were debated and adopted during the session. Commissioners approved new or revised language addressing teacher training and intellectual diversity in K–12 classrooms, clarified higher‑education recommendations on academic boycotts and institutional responses, and added wording that DESE’s released data should be anonymized when the recommendation is implemented.

Treasurer Ted Goldberg, who addressed the commission before a short recess, endorsed the report and said his office stands ready to help with implementation. “The report lays out clear and consistent policies that address antisemitism and what at a minimum we can do here in Massachusetts,” Goldberg said, urging coordination between state agencies, law enforcement and civil-society groups.

Commissioners emphasized the report’s aim to protect free expression while pressing institutions to respond to discriminatory actions. The commission also voted to insert clarifying language across sections after debate over wording; where members sought legal guardrails, they cited existing regulation 603 CMR 26.05 and asked staff to retain cross‑references to other recommendations.

With the final vote complete, Cataldo said the report will be delivered to the House and Senate clerks and the committees on ways and means on Nov. 30, and that only technical corrections may follow. The commission’s recorded roll calls show broad support for the package as revised.