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---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act addressing COVID-19 data collection and disparities in treatment"
description: "An Act addressing COVID-19 data collection and disparities in treatment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4672"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4672 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-04-23"
last_action: "2020-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/142bf1be-7c63-409f-8c91-91cc03db1391"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4672"
source_hash: "1799e6c5f10399576dfdd6c75e4afc55bab8726b82a76dab4a83a36ccba9175b"
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 H 4672 (191st) — An Act addressing COVID-19 data collection and disparities in treatment
## 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/191/H4672.pdf)
## Sponsors
- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-04-23** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2020-04-23** Reported on a part of H4354
- **2020-04-23** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-04-23** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2695 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-05-11** Rules suspended
- **2020-05-11** Read second `reading-2`
- **2020-05-11** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2695, as amended `amendment-passage`
- **2020-05-11** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-05-11** Read third `reading-3`
- **2020-05-11** Reprinted as amended, see S2703
- **2020-05-11** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-05-13** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-13** 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 4710
- **2020-05-18** Rules suspended
- **2020-05-18** Senate concurred in the House further amendment with a still further amendment striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2708
- **2020-05-21** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-26** 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 H4735
- **2020-05-28** Rules suspended
- **2020-05-28** Senate concurred in the House still still further amendment with a still still still further amendment
- **2020-05-28** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-28** House concurred in the Senate still, still, still further amendment
- **2020-05-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-05-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-05-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-06-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 93 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/142bf1be-7c63-409f-8c91-91cc03db1391`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).