republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/191st/s-2599.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing waiver of the one week waiting period for unemployment benefits	Senate, March 18, 2020 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation to authorize the waiver of the one-week waiting period for unemployment benefits (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2598), - reported, in part, a "Bill authorizing waiver of the one week waiting period for unemployment benefits" (Senate, No. 2599)	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	191st	S 2599	Massachusetts S 2599 (191st)	bill		enacted	Senate Committee on Ways and Means	1	11	0	2020-03-18	2020-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/ca5b3fd5-e8f0-4512-b2ed-fd73386359fd	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2599	60d2a08bd574f3eb76242d40bf4e612e02261bc005a9afc1059dd37c24ce9ba3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2599 (191st) — An Act authorizing waiver of the one week waiting period for unemployment benefits

Senate, March 18, 2020 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation to authorize the waiver of the one-week waiting period for unemployment benefits (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2598), - reported, in part, a "Bill authorizing waiver of the one week waiting period for unemployment benefits" (Senate, No. 2599)

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2020-03-18 Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
• 2020-03-18 Reported on a part of S2598
• 2020-03-18 Bill reported favorably by committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-18 Rules suspended
• 2020-03-18 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2020-03-18 Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-1, reading-2, reading-3
• 2020-03-18 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2020-03-18 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2020-03-18 Enacted passage
• 2020-03-18 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 40 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca5b3fd5-e8f0-4512-b2ed-fd73386359fd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).