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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act further providing for early voting by mail"
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description: "An Act further providing for early voting by mail"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "192nd"
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identifier: "H 73"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 73 (192nd)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2021-03-01"
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last_action: "2021-03-16"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d61d7289-128d-4571-839a-bdc6b5add82e"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H73"
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source_hash: "6ef6517af3cfa219ec30456121124ee942e39f960ca7d215b1575fa961f9e3aa"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
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---
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# Massachusetts H 73 (192nd) — An Act further providing for early voting by mail
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H73.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
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- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
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- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Angelo L. D'Emilia — cosponsor (person)
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- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
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- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
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- Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)
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- David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)
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- David K. Muradian, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Donald H. Wong — cosponsor (person)
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- F. Jay Barrows — cosponsor (person)
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- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
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- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
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- John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
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- Jonathan D. Zlotnik — cosponsor (person)
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- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
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- Kenneth I. Gordon — cosponsor (person)
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- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
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- Lenny Mirra — cosponsor (person)
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- Linda Dean Campbell — cosponsor (person)
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- Mathew J. Muratore — cosponsor (person)
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- Michelle L. Ciccolo — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul A. Schmid, III — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul K. Frost — cosponsor (person)
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- Richard M. Haggerty — cosponsor (person)
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- Sarah K. Peake — cosponsor (person)
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- Steven G. Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
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- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)
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- Susan Williams Gifford — cosponsor (person)
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- Timothy R. Whelan — cosponsor (person)
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- Todd M. Smola — cosponsor (person)
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- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
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- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-03-01** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
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- **2021-03-01** Pending new draft of H71
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- **2021-03-01** New draft of H71
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- **2021-03-01** Ordered to a third reading
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- **2021-03-01** Rules suspended
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- **2021-03-01** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
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- **2021-03-04** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
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- **2021-03-04** Hearing scheduled from 03/4/2021 @ 4:00 PM until 03/08/2021 @ 10:00 AM in Written Testimony Only
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- **2021-03-11** Committee recommended ought to pass with amendment `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-03-11** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2021-03-11** Read third `reading-3`
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- **2021-03-11** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #18 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0) `passage`
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- **2021-03-11** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
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- **2021-03-11** House concurred in the Senate amendment
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- **2021-03-11** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2021-03-11** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2021-03-11** Enacted `passage`
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- **2021-03-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2021-03-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d61d7289-128d-4571-839a-bdc6b5add82e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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