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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act protecting research animals"
description: "By Ms. Dykema of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 901) of Carolyn C. Dykema and others relative to the adoption of certain research animals. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 901"
citation: "Massachusetts H 901 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carolyn C. Dykema"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2022-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d05ed1d5-80bc-4c0d-94b8-cb3e9ebedae4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H901"
source_hash: "f0fa717521cd030ae5fce93117f658b15d2aebfa4b8e9435ee6680ceef38d797"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---
# Massachusetts H 901 (192nd) — An Act protecting research animals
By Ms. Dykema of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 901) of Carolyn C. Dykema and others relative to the adoption of certain research animals. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H901.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Carolyn C. Dykema — primary (person)
- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
- Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)
- Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel M. Donahue — cosponsor (person)
- Danillo A. Sena — cosponsor (person)
- David Allen Robertson — cosponsor (person)
- David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth A. Malia — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- James Arciero — cosponsor (person)
- James K. Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Roy — cosponsor (person)
- John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
- Jon Santiago — cosponsor (person)
- Josh S. Cutler — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Lori A. Ehrlich — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle M. DuBois — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia A. Duffy — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia A. Haddad — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)
- Paul A. Schmid, III — cosponsor (person)
- Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Capano — cosponsor (person)
- Richard M. Haggerty — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)
- Steven C. Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Steven G. Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Ultrino — cosponsor (person)
- Tami L. Gouveia — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
- Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)
- Vanna Howard — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Senate concurred
- **2021-11-09** Hearing scheduled for 11/17/2021 from 02:00 PM-05:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-02-09** Accompanied by S613 and H890
- **2022-02-09** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-02-10** Rules suspended
- **2022-02-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-05-09** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-05-12** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2992
- **2022-07-11** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-11** Read second `reading-2`
- **2022-07-11** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2992 `amendment-passage`
- **2022-07-11** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-07-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-12** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-26** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-26** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2022-07-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-07-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 149 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d05ed1d5-80bc-4c0d-94b8-cb3e9ebedae4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).