---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing waiver of the one week waiting period for unemployment benefits"
description: "Senate, March 18, 2020 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation to authorize the waiver of the one-week waiting period for unemployment benefits (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2598), - reported, in part, a \"Bill authorizing waiver of the one week waiting period for unemployment benefits\" (Senate, No. 2599)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2599"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2599 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Senate Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-03-18"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca5b3fd5-e8f0-4512-b2ed-fd73386359fd"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2599"
source_hash: "60d2a08bd574f3eb76242d40bf4e612e02261bc005a9afc1059dd37c24ce9ba3"
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 2599 (191st) — An Act authorizing waiver of the one week waiting period for unemployment benefits

Senate, March 18, 2020 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation to authorize the waiver of the one-week waiting period for unemployment benefits (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2598), - reported, in part, a "Bill authorizing waiver of the one week waiting period for unemployment benefits" (Senate, No. 2599)

## 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/S2599.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-18** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
- **2020-03-18** Reported on a part of S2598
- **2020-03-18** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Rules suspended
- **2020-03-18** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-03-18** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-03-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-03-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-03-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 40 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/ca5b3fd5-e8f0-4512-b2ed-fd73386359fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).