republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/191st/s-2608.md

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Bill	An Act granting authority to postpone 2020 municipal elections in the commonwealth and increase voting options in response to the declaration of emergency to respond to COVID-19	Senate, March 23, 2020 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the House Bill relative to host community agreements (House, No. 4398),-- reported, in part, a "Bill granting authority to postpone 2020 municipal elections in the commonwealth and increase voting options in response to the declaration of emergency to respond to COVID-19" (Senate, No. 2608).	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	191st	S 2608	Massachusetts S 2608 (191st)	bill		enacted	Senate Committee on Ways and Means	1	11	0	2020-03-23	2020-03-23	openstates	ocd-bill/d794cb9d-4100-431a-8ecd-bc2bc9506795	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2608	748a8ed731331234cac0368197e018cd0be7b129f0ef2c3dd59a91145223a32a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2608 (191st) — An Act granting authority to postpone 2020 municipal elections in the commonwealth and increase voting options in response to the declaration of emergency to respond to COVID-19

Senate, March 23, 2020 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the House Bill relative to host community agreements (House, No. 4398),-- reported, in part, a "Bill granting authority to postpone 2020 municipal elections in the commonwealth and increase voting options in response to the declaration of emergency to respond to COVID-19" (Senate, No. 2608).

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.

• 2020-03-23 Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
• 2020-03-23 Reported on a part of H4398
• 2020-03-23 Bill reported favorably by committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-23 Rules suspended
• 2020-03-23 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2020-03-23 Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-1, reading-2, reading-3
• 2020-03-23 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2020-03-23 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2020-03-23 Enacted passage
• 2020-03-23 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2020-03-23 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 45 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d794cb9d-4100-431a-8ecd-bc2bc9506795. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).