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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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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.

  1. 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).