---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for provisional licensure for speech-language pathologists"
description: "An Act providing for provisional licensure for speech-language pathologists"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5094"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5094 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-26"
last_action: "2022-11-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0647644-d8de-4de7-bf26-ba05e36cc5ea"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5094"
source_hash: "5cf2d3e9d804403dbb4cc6489cc3d0b74d4f7e81cb56817d8071db9a6d20abb4"
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 5094 (192nd) — An Act providing for provisional licensure for speech-language pathologists

## 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/H5094.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Hendricks — cosponsor (person)
- David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)
- David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Marcos A. Devers — cosponsor (person)
- Michael D. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)
- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Ultrino — cosponsor (person)
- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-07-26** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2022-07-26** Pending new draft of H4245
- **2022-07-26** New draft of H4245
- **2022-07-26** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-07-26** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-08-04** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-10-27** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-10-27** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-11-03** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 263 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/d0647644-d8de-4de7-bf26-ba05e36cc5ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).