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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act to further address challenges faced by municipalities, school districts and state authorities resulting from COVID-19"
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description: "An Act to further address challenges faced by municipalities, school districts 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 4616"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4616 (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: 17
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2020-04-02"
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last_action: "2020-04-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e82f87c-a37b-45d2-9506-b943f456415b"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4616"
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source_hash: "fb11489d1c1ab266b40ec37e2754e906f55e61b7b16ae7469195c2c22371dd8c"
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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 4616 (191st) — An Act to further address challenges faced by municipalities, school districts 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/H4616.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
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- Charles D. Baker — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-04-02** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
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- **2020-04-02** Reported on the residue of H4586
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- **2020-04-02** 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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- **2020-04-06** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
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- **2020-04-09** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2629 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-04-09** Rules suspended
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- **2020-04-09** Read second `reading-2`
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- **2020-04-09** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2629 `amendment-passage`
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- **2020-04-09** Ordered to a third reading
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- **2020-04-09** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
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- **2020-04-09** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
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- **2020-04-09** House concurred in the Senate amendment
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- **2020-04-09** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2020-04-09** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2020-04-09** Enacted `passage`
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- **2020-04-09** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2020-04-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 56 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/6e82f87c-a37b-45d2-9506-b943f456415b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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