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Bill	An Act to establish Noah Fernandes mitochondrial disease awareness day	By Representative Cabral of New Bedford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Antonio F. D. Cabral for the annual issuance by the Governor of a proclamation setting apart the Friday of the third full week of September as Noah Fernandes Mitochondrial Disease awareness day. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4240	Massachusetts H 4240 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Antonio F. D. Cabral	1	21	0	2024-01-04	2024-05-31	openstates	ocd-bill/a5839117-ff25-40a3-82c5-3cc71ef8fa87	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4240	6602a02c250d69a62fb2aed82df85f86730350f147062d73a3d89ac6f5312c24	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4240 (193rd) — An Act to establish Noah Fernandes mitochondrial disease awareness day

By Representative Cabral of New Bedford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Antonio F. D. Cabral for the annual issuance by the Governor of a proclamation setting apart the Friday of the third full week of September as Noah Fernandes Mitochondrial Disease awareness day. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Antonio F. D. Cabral — primary (person)
• Christopher Hendricks — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)
• Norman J. Orrall — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04 Referred to the committee on House Rules referral-committee
• 2024-01-04 Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight referral-committee
• 2024-01-08 Senate concurred
• 2024-01-26 Hearing scheduled for 02/01/2024 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
• 2024-02-05 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-02-22 Rules suspended
• 2024-02-22 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-11 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules referral-committee
• 2024-04-25 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-05-13 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-05-13 Read second reading-2
• 2024-05-13 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2782 amendment-passage
• 2024-05-13 Ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-15 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-05-22 Rules suspended
• 2024-05-22 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-05-22 Enacted passage
• 2024-05-23 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-05-31 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 109 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5839117-ff25-40a3-82c5-3cc71ef8fa87. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).