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Bill An Act to address challenges faced by municipalities and state authorities resulting from COVID-19 An Act to address challenges faced by municipalities and state authorities resulting from COVID-19 us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 191st H 4598 Massachusetts H 4598 (191st)
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Massachusetts H 4598 (191st) — An Act to address challenges faced by municipalities and state authorities resulting from COVID-19

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

  • House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-03-27 Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
  • 2020-03-27 Reported on a part of H4586
  • 2020-03-27 Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3, reading-1
  • 2020-03-30 Read, rules suspended, read second reading-2, reading-1
  • 2020-03-30 Amended (Rodrigues) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2619 amendment-passage
  • 2020-03-30 Ordered to a third reading
  • 2020-03-30 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2020-03-30 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
  • 2020-03-30 House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment, striking all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of House document numbered 4612
  • 2020-04-01 Senate concurred in the further House amendment with a still further amendment, see S2622
  • 2020-04-02 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
  • 2020-04-02 House concurred in the Senate amendment with a still, still further amendment, striking all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of House document numbered 4617
  • 2020-04-02 Rules suspended
  • 2020-04-02 Senate concurred in the still still further House amendment
  • 2020-04-02 Emergency preamble adopted
  • 2020-04-02 Emergency preamble adopted
  • 2020-04-02 Enacted passage
  • 2020-04-02 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2020-04-03 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 53 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47721424-ca5e-47a7-a6e3-c42e085e3a5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).