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type title description jurisdiction legislature session identifier citation classification subjects status primary_sponsors version_count action_count vote_count first_action last_action source source_identifier source_url source_hash vintage source_snapshot retrieved_at confidence tags
Bill An Act further providing for early voting by mail An Act further providing for early voting by mail us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 192nd H 73 Massachusetts H 73 (192nd)
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Massachusetts H 73 (192nd) — An Act further providing for early voting by mail

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

  • House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
  • Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
  • Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Angelo L. D'Emilia — cosponsor (person)
  • Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
  • Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
  • Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)
  • David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)
  • David K. Muradian, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Donald H. Wong — cosponsor (person)
  • F. Jay Barrows — cosponsor (person)
  • Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
  • Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
  • John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
  • Jonathan D. Zlotnik — cosponsor (person)
  • Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
  • Kenneth I. Gordon — cosponsor (person)
  • Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
  • Lenny Mirra — cosponsor (person)
  • Linda Dean Campbell — cosponsor (person)
  • Mathew J. Muratore — cosponsor (person)
  • Michelle L. Ciccolo — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul A. Schmid, III — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul K. Frost — cosponsor (person)
  • Richard M. Haggerty — cosponsor (person)
  • Sarah K. Peake — cosponsor (person)
  • Steven G. Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
  • Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)
  • Susan Williams Gifford — cosponsor (person)
  • Timothy R. Whelan — cosponsor (person)
  • Todd M. Smola — cosponsor (person)
  • Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
  • William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-03-01 Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
  • 2021-03-01 Pending new draft of H71
  • 2021-03-01 New draft of H71
  • 2021-03-01 Ordered to a third reading
  • 2021-03-01 Rules suspended
  • 2021-03-01 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2021-03-04 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means referral-committee
  • 2021-03-04 Hearing scheduled from 03/4/2021 @ 4:00 PM until 03/08/2021 @ 10:00 AM in Written Testimony Only
  • 2021-03-11 Committee recommended ought to pass with amendment committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-03-11 Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2021-03-11 Read third reading-3
  • 2021-03-11 Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #18 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0) passage
  • 2021-03-11 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
  • 2021-03-11 House concurred in the Senate amendment
  • 2021-03-11 Emergency preamble adopted
  • 2021-03-11 Emergency preamble adopted
  • 2021-03-11 Enacted passage
  • 2021-03-11 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2021-03-16 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2021 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d61d7289-128d-4571-839a-bdc6b5add82e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).