---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing the first week in August as ice bucket challenge week"
description: "By Representative Parisella of Beverly and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1697) of Jerald A. Parisella, Joan B. Lovely and others for the annual issuance by the Governor of a proclamation setting apart first week in August as ice bucket challenge week. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 1697"
citation: "Massachusetts H 1697 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fadbfbf-0b00-47f5-be95-352d0e9a3331"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H1697"
source_hash: "c60a76198189e454b1dc7b786b09bed671b20c8aec4848c2bdd0bd13a8df85ca"
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 1697 (190th) — An Act establishing the first week in August as ice bucket challenge week

By Representative Parisella of Beverly and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1697) of Jerald A. Parisella, Joan B. Lovely and others for the annual issuance by the Governor of a proclamation setting apart first week in August as ice bucket challenge week. 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/190/H1697.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Alan Silvia — cosponsor (person)
- Bradford R. Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Brendan P. Crighton — cosponsor (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
- Carolyn C. Dykema — cosponsor (person)
- Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel Cullinane — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel J. Ryan — cosponsor (person)
- Danielle W. Gregoire — cosponsor (person)
- David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Denise C. Garlick — cosponsor (person)
- Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- James Arciero — cosponsor (person)
- James M. Cantwell — cosponsor (person)
- James M. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Roy — cosponsor (person)
- Jerald A. Parisella — cosponsor (person)
- Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)
- John H. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
- Josh S. Cutler — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin G. Honan — cosponsor (person)
- Louis L. Kafka — cosponsor (person)
- Mathew Muratore — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Rush — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)
- Paul Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Shaunna L. O'Connell — cosponsor (person)
- Shawn Dooley — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Ultrino — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas P. Walsh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Senate concurred
- **2017-06-07** Hearing scheduled for 06/12/2017 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
- **2017-06-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-06-14** Rules suspended
- **2017-06-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-07-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-07-05** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment
- **2017-07-24** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-24** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Senate Rules), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-07-24** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-24** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2017-07-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-07-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-07-24** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-07-27** Enacted -see Roll Call #76 [YEAS 38 to NAYS 0] `passage`
- **2017-07-27** Laid before the Governor
- **2017-08-01** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fadbfbf-0b00-47f5-be95-352d0e9a3331`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).