---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to school operational efficiency"
description: "By Ms. Garlick of Needham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 596) of Denise C. Garlick and others relative to school operational efficiency. Education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 596"
citation: "Massachusetts H 596 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise C. Garlick"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2022-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40af3767-2bbd-4f7b-8ca0-af86ce9bda8d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H596"
source_hash: "771eee0e1dcf946ed057dcac216ca9ad80781c27e80e58f117abf7cadcf1677e"
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 596 (192nd) — An Act relative to school operational efficiency

By Ms. Garlick of Needham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 596) of Denise C. Garlick and others relative to school operational efficiency. Education.

## 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/H596.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Denise C. Garlick — primary (person)
- Alice Hanlon Peisch — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Carmine Lawrence Gentile — cosponsor (person)
- Christina A. Minicucci — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel J. Ryan — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Ann Giannino — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Senate concurred
- **2021-05-17** Hearing scheduled for 05/20/2021 from 12:00 PM-05:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-07-21** Accompanied by S359
- **2021-07-21** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-07-28** Rules suspended
- **2021-07-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-11-10** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-11-17** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-26** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-07-26** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-26** Read second `reading-2`
- **2022-07-26** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-07-26** Read third `reading-3`
- **2022-07-26** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-08-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 198 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/40af3767-2bbd-4f7b-8ca0-af86ce9bda8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).