---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act granting equal access to original birth certificates to all persons born in Massachusetts"
description: "By Representatives Garballey of Arlington and Hogan of Stow, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2294) of Sean Garballey, Kate Hogan and others relative to access to original birth certificates to persons born in the Commonwealth. Public Health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 2294"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2294 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2022-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5aa65e52-d248-4024-a575-85563b132c37"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H2294"
source_hash: "28e784971809e379460fde98ca1fc8b5edef4980faa7efce1261aac11c227065"
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 2294 (192nd) — An Act granting equal access to original birth certificates to all persons born in Massachusetts

By Representatives Garballey of Arlington and Hogan of Stow, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2294) of Sean Garballey, Kate Hogan and others relative to access to original birth certificates to persons born in the Commonwealth. Public Health.

## 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/H2294.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Anne M. Gobi — cosponsor (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel J. Ryan — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel R. Carey — cosponsor (person)
- David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- James J. O'Day — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Roy — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Ann Giannino — cosponsor (person)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Hogan — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Kip A. Diggs — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Maria Duaime Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Mary S. Keefe — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle L. Ciccolo — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Capano — cosponsor (person)
- Sal N. DiDomenico — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Ultrino — cosponsor (person)
- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
- Todd M. Smola — cosponsor (person)
- Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Senate concurred
- **2021-04-28** Hearing scheduled for 05/10/2021 from 10:00 AM-02:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-09-27** Accompanied by S1440
- **2021-09-27** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-10-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-10-25** Rules suspended
- **2021-10-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-11-04** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-01-10** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-07-29** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-29** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-07-29** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #229 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2022-07-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-07-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 158 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/5aa65e52-d248-4024-a575-85563b132c37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).