---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures during the COVID-19 Emergency"
description: "An Act providing for a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures during the COVID-19 Emergency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4647"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4647 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Moratorium on evictions and foreclosures during the COVID-19 emergency"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-04-15"
last_action: "2020-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34b26e4d-03f8-4d58-8170-bf3922be38b9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4647"
source_hash: "b74fccee7fd8806c07e03966522935b38960f439ad06bf439fec1a2233e464df"
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 H 4647 (191st) — An Act providing for a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures during the COVID-19 Emergency

## 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/H4647.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Moratorium on evictions and foreclosures during the COVID-19 emergency — primary (person)
- Carlos González — cosponsor (person)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel J. Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel R. Cullinane — cosponsor (person)
- David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Diana DiZoglio — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth A. Poirier — cosponsor (person)
- House Committee on Ways and Means — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- James M. Kelcourse — cosponsor (person)
- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jay D. Livingstone — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Lawn, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan Hecht — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph W. McGonagle, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin G. Honan — cosponsor (person)
- Marjorie C. Decker — cosponsor (person)
- Mary S. Keefe — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Capano — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-04-15** Reported from the committee of conference
- **2020-04-15** Reported on H4615
- **2020-04-15** Rules suspended
- **2020-04-15** Committee of conference report accepted
- **2020-04-16** Rules suspended
- **2020-04-16** Committee of conference report accepted, in concurrence
- **2020-04-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-04-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-04-17** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-04-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-04-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 65 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/34b26e4d-03f8-4d58-8170-bf3922be38b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).