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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act providing for virtual notarization to address challenges related to COVID-19"
+description: "Senate, April 21, 2020– Text of the Senate Bill providing for virtual notarization to address challenges related to COVID-19 (being the text of Senate, No. 2542, printed as amended)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
+legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
+session: "191st"
+identifier: "S 2645"
+citation: "Massachusetts S 2645 (191st)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 0
+first_action: "2020-04-21"
+last_action: "2020-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/288bdb2a-eea8-47d9-87ee-bb7931ec4061"
+source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2645"
+source_hash: "1abe642e400ec1dafac2d79a1c6629921fdd0cdb28cc85fed347ac5178537fcc"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
+---
+
+# Massachusetts S 2645 (191st) — An Act providing for virtual notarization to address challenges related to COVID-19
+
+Senate, April 21, 2020– Text of the Senate Bill providing for virtual notarization to address challenges related to COVID-19 (being the text of Senate, No. 2542, printed as amended)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2645.pdf)
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-04-21** Text of S2642, printed as amended
+- **2020-04-21** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
+- **2020-04-21** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2020-04-23** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text contained in House document numbered 4668 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-04-23** Rules suspended
+- **2020-04-23** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
+- **2020-04-23** Rules suspended
+- **2020-04-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
+- **2020-04-23** Rules suspended
+- **2020-04-23** Senate concurred in the House amendment
+- **2020-04-23** Emergency preamble adopted
+- **2020-04-23** Emergency preamble adopted
+- **2020-04-23** Enacted `passage`
+- **2020-04-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
+- **2020-04-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 71 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/288bdb2a-eea8-47d9-87ee-bb7931ec4061`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
+