---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to extending certain COVID-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency"
description: "An Act relative to extending certain COVID-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 62"
citation: "Massachusetts H 62 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-17"
last_action: "2025-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6a60fc3-72eb-4612-95fe-eb9bbef29ff9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H62"
source_hash: "8934c709eefda099c1eff8e38af2f9b044e728f6ae34ae23c5814e4e39b648e3"
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 62 (194th) — An Act relative to extending certain COVID-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency

## 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/194/H62.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17** Reported by the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2025-03-17** Reported on a part of H55
- **2025-03-17** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-03-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-03-17** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-03-20** Read third (title changed) `reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Amended (Rodrigues) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2506 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-20** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2025-03-20** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-03-20** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-03-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-03-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6a60fc3-72eb-4612-95fe-eb9bbef29ff9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).