---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act further providing for early voting by mail"
description: "An Act further providing for early voting by mail"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 73"
citation: "Massachusetts H 73 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-01"
last_action: "2021-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d61d7289-128d-4571-839a-bdc6b5add82e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H73"
source_hash: "6ef6517af3cfa219ec30456121124ee942e39f960ca7d215b1575fa961f9e3aa"
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 73 (192nd) — An Act further providing for early voting by mail

## 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/H73.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo L. D'Emilia — cosponsor (person)
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)
- David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)
- David K. Muradian, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Donald H. Wong — cosponsor (person)
- F. Jay Barrows — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan D. Zlotnik — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth I. Gordon — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Lenny Mirra — cosponsor (person)
- Linda Dean Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Mathew J. Muratore — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle L. Ciccolo — cosponsor (person)
- Paul A. Schmid, III — cosponsor (person)
- Paul K. Frost — cosponsor (person)
- Richard M. Haggerty — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah K. Peake — cosponsor (person)
- Steven G. Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Williams Gifford — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy R. Whelan — cosponsor (person)
- Todd M. Smola — cosponsor (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-01** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2021-03-01** Pending new draft of H71
- **2021-03-01** New draft of H71
- **2021-03-01** Ordered to a third reading
- **2021-03-01** Rules suspended
- **2021-03-01** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-03-04** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04** Hearing scheduled from 03/4/2021 @ 4:00 PM until 03/08/2021 @ 10:00 AM in Written Testimony Only
- **2021-03-11** Committee recommended ought to pass with amendment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-03-11** Read third `reading-3`
- **2021-03-11** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #18 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2021-03-11** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2021-03-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-03-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-03-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-03-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-03-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d61d7289-128d-4571-839a-bdc6b5add82e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).