---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act addressing barriers to care for mental health"
description: "An Act addressing barriers to care for mental health"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 3097"
citation: "Massachusetts S 3097 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mental Health Barriers"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-08-01"
last_action: "2022-08-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29079195-e63a-4925-9509-53f5f97bb1a6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S3097"
source_hash: "dd449e40c0b863b22412fc173dcbac48ef8c4795f28cc01461d454e900089183"
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 3097 (192nd) — An Act addressing barriers to care for mental 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/S3097.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Mental Health Barriers — primary (person)
- Cindy F. Friedman — cosponsor (person)
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-08-01** Reported by committee of conference
- **2022-08-01** Reported on S2584
- **2022-08-01** Rules suspended
- **2022-08-01** Committee of conference report accepted -see Roll Call #260 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0)
- **2022-08-01** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-01** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting, the question being on acceptance
- **2022-08-01** Rules suspended
- **2022-08-01** Committee of conference report accepted, in concurrence
- **2022-08-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-08-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 177 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/29079195-e63a-4925-9509-53f5f97bb1a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).