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| Bill | An Act granting equal access to original birth certificates to all persons born in Massachusetts | By Representatives Garballey of Arlington and Hogan of Stow, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2294) of Sean Garballey, Kate Hogan and others relative to access to original birth certificates to persons born in the Commonwealth. Public Health. | us/states/ma | Massachusetts General Court | 192nd | H 2294 | Massachusetts H 2294 (192nd) |
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enacted | 1 | 17 | 0 | 2021-03-29 | 2022-08-05 | openstates | ocd-bill/5aa65e52-d248-4024-a575-85563b132c37 | https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H2294 | 28e784971809e379460fde98ca1fc8b5edef4980faa7efce1261aac11c227065 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Massachusetts H 2294 (192nd) — An Act granting equal access to original birth certificates to all persons born in Massachusetts
By Representatives Garballey of Arlington and Hogan of Stow, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2294) of Sean Garballey, Kate Hogan and others relative to access to original birth certificates to persons born in the Commonwealth. Public Health.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Sponsors
- Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Anne M. Gobi — cosponsor (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel J. Ryan — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel R. Carey — cosponsor (person)
- David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- James J. O'Day — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Roy — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Ann Giannino — cosponsor (person)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Hogan — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Kip A. Diggs — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Maria Duaime Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Mary S. Keefe — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle L. Ciccolo — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Capano — cosponsor (person)
- Sal N. DiDomenico — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Ultrino — cosponsor (person)
- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
- Todd M. Smola — cosponsor (person)
- Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-03-29 Referred to the committee on Public Health
referral-committee - 2021-03-29 Senate concurred
- 2021-04-28 Hearing scheduled for 05/10/2021 from 10:00 AM-02:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- 2021-09-27 Accompanied by S1440
- 2021-09-27 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee - 2021-10-25 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- 2021-10-25 Rules suspended
- 2021-10-25 Read second and ordered to a third reading
reading-2 - 2021-11-04 Read third and passed to be engrossed
reading-3 - 2022-01-10 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules
referral-committee - 2022-07-29 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- 2022-07-29 Rules suspended
- 2022-07-29 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third
reading-2, reading-3 - 2022-07-29 Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #229 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0)
passage - 2022-07-29 Enacted
passage - 2022-07-29 Enacted and laid before the Governor
passage - 2022-08-05 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 158 of the Acts of 2022
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5aa65e52-d248-4024-a575-85563b132c37. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).