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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act authorizing waiver of the one week waiting period for unemployment benefits"
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description: "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)"
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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: "S 2599"
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citation: "Massachusetts S 2599 (191st)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Senate Committee on Ways and Means"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 11
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2020-03-18"
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last_action: "2020-03-18"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca5b3fd5-e8f0-4512-b2ed-fd73386359fd"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2599"
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source_hash: "60d2a08bd574f3eb76242d40bf4e612e02261bc005a9afc1059dd37c24ce9ba3"
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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 S 2599 (191st) — An Act authorizing waiver of the one week waiting period for unemployment benefits
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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)
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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/S2599.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Senate 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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- **2020-03-18** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
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- **2020-03-18** Reported on a part of S2598
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- **2020-03-18** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-03-18** Rules suspended
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- **2020-03-18** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
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- **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`
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- **2020-03-18** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2020-03-18** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2020-03-18** Enacted `passage`
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- **2020-03-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 40 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/ca5b3fd5-e8f0-4512-b2ed-fd73386359fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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