---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to Machado-Joseph Disease Awareness Day"
description: "By Representative Cabral of New Bedford and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3298) of Antonio F. D. Cabral, Michael J. Rodrigues and Christopher M. Markey for the annual issuance of a proclamation by the Governor setting apart July 2 as Machado-Joseph disease awareness day. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 3298"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3298 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f22087d-48c0-42e0-ac48-d842b9de0ad8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3298"
source_hash: "8abc5b8af382005450cb98581a582bd94a60eaddbf23ced9f75b67e1c1b401c9"
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 3298 (194th) — An Act relative to Machado-Joseph Disease Awareness Day

By Representative Cabral of New Bedford and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3298) of Antonio F. D. Cabral, Michael J. Rodrigues and Christopher M. Markey for the annual issuance of a proclamation by the Governor setting apart July 2 as Machado-Joseph 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/194/H3298.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Antonio F. D. Cabral — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher M. Markey — 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** Senate concurred
- **2025-05-07** Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2025-07-03** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-07-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-08-04** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-07** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-09-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-09-18** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-18** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-09-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-09-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-09-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 32 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/8f22087d-48c0-42e0-ac48-d842b9de0ad8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).