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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act to address challenges faced by municipalities and state authorities resulting from COVID-19"
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description: "An Act to address challenges faced by municipalities and state authorities resulting from COVID-19"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "191st"
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identifier: "H 4598"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4598 (191st)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2020-03-27"
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last_action: "2020-04-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47721424-ca5e-47a7-a6e3-c42e085e3a5b"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4598"
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source_hash: "e78ce29e0feafef6a9904028a1d02a78c3d956bf21cbf93afe6fee4a3fca9938"
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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 4598 (191st) — An Act to address challenges faced by municipalities and state authorities resulting from COVID-19
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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/191/H4598.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-03-27** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
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- **2020-03-27** Reported on a part of H4586
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- **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`
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- **2020-03-30** Read, rules suspended, read second `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2020-03-30** Amended (Rodrigues) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2619 `amendment-passage`
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- **2020-03-30** Ordered to a third reading
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- **2020-03-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-30** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
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- **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
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- **2020-04-01** Senate concurred in the further House amendment with a still further amendment, see S2622
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- **2020-04-02** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
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- **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
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- **2020-04-02** Rules suspended
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- **2020-04-02** Senate concurred in the still still further House amendment
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- **2020-04-02** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2020-04-02** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2020-04-02** Enacted `passage`
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- **2020-04-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2020-04-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 53 of the Acts of 2020 `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/47721424-ca5e-47a7-a6e3-c42e085e3a5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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