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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act designating the month of May as seatbelt awareness month"
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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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "190th"
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identifier: "H 1716"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 1716 (190th)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Alan Silvia"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2017-01-23"
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last_action: "2017-07-27"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92e53650-3068-4882-ae47-a0c3d8dcd535"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H1716"
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source_hash: "0ab7eb39272bc3ce7c0bebed708377db15bebef3625afa74c3eb14e2c158b352"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
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---
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# Massachusetts H 1716 (190th) — An Act designating the month of May as seatbelt awareness month
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H1716.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Alan Silvia — primary (person)
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- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Angelo L. D'Emilia — cosponsor (person)
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- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
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- Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
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- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
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- José F. Tosado — cosponsor (person)
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- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
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- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
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- Mathew Muratore — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)
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- Michelle M. DuBois — cosponsor (person)
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- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul A. Schmid, III — cosponsor (person)
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- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)
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- Timothy R. Whelan — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-23** Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-23** Senate concurred
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- **2017-04-06** Hearing scheduled for 04/11/2017 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
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- **2017-05-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-05-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2017-05-18** Rules suspended
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- **2017-05-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2017-06-12** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
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- **2017-06-15** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
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- **2017-07-13** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
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- **2017-07-13** Rules suspended
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- **2017-07-13** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
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- **2017-07-17** Enacted `passage`
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- **2017-07-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2017-07-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 53 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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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).
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