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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act allowing humane transportation of K9 partners aka Nero's law"
+description: "Senate, November 9, 2021 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill to allow humane transportation of K9 partners aka Nero's law.(Senate, No. 1606),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2573)."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
+legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
+session: "192nd"
+identifier: "S 2573"
+citation: "Massachusetts S 2573 (192nd)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Senate Committee on Ways and Means"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 0
+first_action: "2021-11-09"
+last_action: "2022-02-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/909f3cdc-d195-4d32-97c4-64802f462cd8"
+source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2573"
+source_hash: "68284e5ff31da11991f8a2f073ea96c28160cc5908328b49eb8becc57dfa9db6"
+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 2573 (192nd) — An Act allowing humane transportation of K9 partners aka Nero's law
+
+Senate, November 9, 2021 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill to allow humane transportation of K9 partners aka Nero's law.(Senate, No. 1606),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2573).
+
+## 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/192/S2573.pdf)
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
+- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
+- Alyson M. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Antonio F. D. Cabral — cosponsor (person)
+- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
+- Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher Hendricks — cosponsor (person)
+- Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
+- David Allen Robertson — cosponsor (person)
+- David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)
+- David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf — cosponsor (person)
+- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
+- John C. Velis — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
+- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
+- Kathleen R. LaNatra — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly W. Pease — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark C. Montigny — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathew J. Muratore — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael D. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Joseph Kearney — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan C. Fattman — cosponsor (person)
+- Sal N. DiDomenico — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven G. Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Susan L. Moran — cosponsor (person)
+- Tami L. Gouveia — cosponsor (person)
+- Walter F. Timilty — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-11-09** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
+- **2021-11-09** Recommended new draft for S1606
+- **2021-11-10** Rules suspended
+- **2021-11-10** Substituted as a new draft for S1606
+- **2021-11-10** Ordered to a third reading
+- **2021-11-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed - see Roll Call #102 (Yeas 38 – Nays 0) `reading-3`
+- **2021-11-15** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-03** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment (H4431) pending
+- **2022-02-03** Rules suspended
+- **2022-02-03** Read second, amended by substitution of a new text (H4431) and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-03** Rules suspended
+- **2022-02-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-07** Rules suspended
+- **2022-02-07** Senate concurred in the House amendment
+- **2022-02-07** Enacted `passage`
+- **2022-02-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
+- **2022-02-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 23 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/909f3cdc-d195-4d32-97c4-64802f462cd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
+