republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/191st/s-2934.md

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Bill	An Act relative to additional unemployment benefits for the neediest recipients currently excluded from the Lost Wages Assistance program	Senate, October 26, 2020 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the Senate Bill relative to additional unemployment benefits for the neediest recipients currently excluded from the Lost Wages Assistance program (Senate, No. 2930),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2934).	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	191st	S 2934	Massachusetts S 2934 (191st)	bill		enacted	Senate Committee on Ways and Means	1	13	0	2020-10-26	2020-10-26	openstates	ocd-bill/95c890af-844a-4223-80d0-b30b20fd7857	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2934	aa97a0c83b93fed19c5d3036557f2b879675a23b96567c12e7f6f2e14be3c0a9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2934 (191st) — An Act relative to additional unemployment benefits for the neediest recipients currently excluded from the Lost Wages Assistance program

Senate, October 26, 2020 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the Senate Bill relative to additional unemployment benefits for the neediest recipients currently excluded from the Lost Wages Assistance program (Senate, No. 2930),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2934).

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)
• Eric P. Lesser — cosponsor (person)
• Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development — cosponsor (person)
• Patricia D. Jehlen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-10-26 Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
• 2020-10-26 Recommended new draft of S2930
• 2020-10-26 Rules suspended
• 2020-10-26 New draft of S2930
• 2020-10-26 Ordered to a third reading
• 2020-10-26 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2020-10-26 Rules suspended
• 2020-10-26 Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2020-10-26 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2020-10-26 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2020-10-26 Enacted passage
• 2020-10-26 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2020-10-26 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 197 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/95c890af-844a-4223-80d0-b30b20fd7857. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).