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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act concerning health insurance benefits for surviving spouses of firefighters in the city of Boston"
description: "By Mr. Collins, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1483) of Nick Collins (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to concern health insurance benefits for surviving spouses of firefighters in the city of Boston. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 1483"
citation: "Massachusetts S 1483 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nick Collins"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2020-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c4d08aa-7314-4fb7-b54e-64b794c0b27a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S1483"
source_hash: "e171428fac7802324fb9c4a42f0b02a5ac7d395b9862dad2fd572fc94bead872"
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 1483 (191st) — An Act concerning health insurance benefits for surviving spouses of firefighters in the city of Boston
By Mr. Collins, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1483) of Nick Collins (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to concern health insurance benefits for surviving spouses of firefighters in the city of Boston. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]
## 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/S1483.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Nick Collins — primary (person)
- Nick Collins — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-22** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** House concurred
- **2019-04-02** Hearing scheduled for 04/09/2019 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
- **2019-05-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-09-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-09-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-09-18** Read; and referred to the committee on Health Care Financing `referral-committee`
- **2019-11-22** Committee recommended bill ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2019-11-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-11-26** Rules suspended
- **2019-11-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-06-01** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-06-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-06-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-06-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 94 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/6c4d08aa-7314-4fb7-b54e-64b794c0b27a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).