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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to veterans' benefits, rights, appreciation, validation and enforcement"
description: "Senate, July 25, 2018 -- Report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches, with reference to the House amendments to the Senate Bill relative to veterans' benefits, rights, appreciation, validation and enforcement (Senate, No. 2509) (amended by the House by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of House document numbered 4540),-- reports, a “Bill relative to veterans' benefits, rights, appreciation, validation and enforcement” (Senate, No. 2632)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2632"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2632 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brave Act Conference Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-26"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32b7f5ba-c414-40b4-8de7-0fbe7d50278a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2632"
source_hash: "97b62f8d1470731c3a0d4be7a729d7c359ee51de24bf13917118d57c127c97d8"
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 S 2632 (190th) — An Act relative to veterans' benefits, rights, appreciation, validation and enforcement
Senate, July 25, 2018 -- Report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches, with reference to the House amendments to the Senate Bill relative to veterans' benefits, rights, appreciation, validation and enforcement (Senate, No. 2509) (amended by the House by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of House document numbered 4540),-- reports, a “Bill relative to veterans' benefits, rights, appreciation, validation and enforcement” (Senate, No. 2632).
## 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/S2632.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Brave Act Conference Committee — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-07-26** Reported from the committee of conference
- **2018-07-26** Reported on a part of S2509
- **2018-07-26** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-26** Committee of conference report accepted -see Roll Call #484 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0)
- **2018-07-27** Reported from the committee of conference
- **2018-07-27** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting, the question being on acceptance
- **2018-07-27** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-27** Committee of conference report accepted, in concurrence - 150 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 422)
- **2018-07-27** Enacted - 150 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 425) `passage`
- **2018-07-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 218 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32b7f5ba-c414-40b4-8de7-0fbe7d50278a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).