---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating the month of May as seatbelt awareness month"
description: "By Mr. Silvia of Fall River, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1716) of Alan Silvia and others for legislation to designate the month of June as seatbelt awareness month. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 1716"
citation: "Massachusetts H 1716 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Silvia"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92e53650-3068-4882-ae47-a0c3d8dcd535"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H1716"
source_hash: "0ab7eb39272bc3ce7c0bebed708377db15bebef3625afa74c3eb14e2c158b352"
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 1716 (190th) — An Act designating the month of May as seatbelt awareness month

By Mr. Silvia of Fall River, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1716) of Alan Silvia and others for legislation to designate the month of June as seatbelt awareness month. 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/H1716.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Alan Silvia — primary (person)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo L. D'Emilia — cosponsor (person)
- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
- Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- José F. Tosado — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Mathew Muratore — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle M. DuBois — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
- Paul A. Schmid, III — cosponsor (person)
- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy R. Whelan — 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
- **2017-04-06** Hearing scheduled for 04/11/2017 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2017-05-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-05-18** Rules suspended
- **2017-05-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-06-12** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-06-15** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-13** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-07-13** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-13** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-07-17** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-07-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-07-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 53 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/92e53650-3068-4882-ae47-a0c3d8dcd535`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).