---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating June 7 as Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day"
description: "By Ms. Friedman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2152) of Cindy F. Friedman for legislation to designate June 7 as Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 2152"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2152 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy F. Friedman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b834d723-5b9f-41db-b186-d6709d08378a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2152"
source_hash: "1c729c5de8c564f0853f1dd06b4ba4b85e7b6b47175a4c9c068354536f2a7d34"
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 2152 (194th) — An Act designating June 7 as Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day

By Ms. Friedman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2152) of Cindy F. Friedman for legislation to designate June 7 as Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.

## 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/S2152.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Cindy F. Friedman — primary (person)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Paul R. Feeney — cosponsor (person)
- Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)
- Sal N. DiDomenico — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Driscoll, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- William N. Brownsberger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** House concurred
- **2025-05-07** Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2025-06-02** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-02** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-06-05** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-05** Read; and referred to the House committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-06-05** Rules suspended
- **2025-06-05** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-06-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-06-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-06-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-06-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-06-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 5 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/b834d723-5b9f-41db-b186-d6709d08378a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).