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Bill An Act providing for virtual notarization to address challenges related to COVID-19 Senate, April 21, 2020 Text of the Senate Bill providing for virtual notarization to address challenges related to COVID-19 (being the text of Senate, No. 2542, printed as amended) us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 191st S 2645 Massachusetts S 2645 (191st)
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Massachusetts S 2645 (191st) — An Act providing for virtual notarization to address challenges related to COVID-19

Senate, April 21, 2020 Text of the Senate Bill providing for virtual notarization to address challenges related to COVID-19 (being the text of Senate, No. 2542, printed as amended)

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 — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-04-21 Text of S2642, printed as amended
  • 2020-04-21 Passed to be engrossed passage
  • 2020-04-21 Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means referral-committee
  • 2020-04-23 Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text contained in House document numbered 4668 committee-passage-favorable
  • 2020-04-23 Rules suspended
  • 2020-04-23 Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2020-04-23 Rules suspended
  • 2020-04-23 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2020-04-23 Rules suspended
  • 2020-04-23 Senate concurred in the House amendment
  • 2020-04-23 Emergency preamble adopted
  • 2020-04-23 Emergency preamble adopted
  • 2020-04-23 Enacted passage
  • 2020-04-23 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2020-04-23 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 71 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/288bdb2a-eea8-47d9-87ee-bb7931ec4061. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).