---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to establish Noah Fernandes mitochondrial disease awareness day"
description: "By Representative Cabral of New Bedford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Antonio F. D. Cabral for the annual issuance by the Governor of a proclamation setting apart the Friday of the third full week of September as Noah Fernandes Mitochondrial Disease awareness day. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4240"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4240 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Antonio F. D. Cabral"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-01-04"
last_action: "2024-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5839117-ff25-40a3-82c5-3cc71ef8fa87"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4240"
source_hash: "6602a02c250d69a62fb2aed82df85f86730350f147062d73a3d89ac6f5312c24"
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 4240 (193rd) — An Act to establish Noah Fernandes mitochondrial disease awareness day

By Representative Cabral of New Bedford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Antonio F. D. Cabral for the annual issuance by the Governor of a proclamation setting apart the Friday of the third full week of September as Noah Fernandes Mitochondrial Disease 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/193/H4240.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Antonio F. D. Cabral — primary (person)
- Christopher Hendricks — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)
- Norman J. Orrall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-04** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-04** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** Senate concurred
- **2024-01-26** Hearing scheduled for 02/01/2024 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
- **2024-02-05** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-02-22** Rules suspended
- **2024-02-22** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-11** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-05-13** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-05-13** Read second `reading-2`
- **2024-05-13** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2782 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-05-13** Ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-22** Rules suspended
- **2024-05-22** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-05-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-05-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-05-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 109 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5839117-ff25-40a3-82c5-3cc71ef8fa87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).