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Bill	An Act to rename the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, MassAbility, to reflect the self-determination and limitless possibilities of people with disabilities	An Act to rename the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, MassAbility, to reflect the self-determination and limitless possibilities of people with disabilities	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4528	Massachusetts H 4528 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	20	0	2024-04-03	2024-09-12	openstates	ocd-bill/a840a375-42e9-4aa7-93f8-9f5f073fecb4	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4528	a892129ae43c909ccc9c18e77b29a8d305eae7e9ad3be15c803c983adceb7f69	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4528 (193rd) — An Act to rename the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, MassAbility, to reflect the self-determination and limitless possibilities of people with disabilities

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 (organization)
• Maura T. Healey — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-04-03 Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
• 2024-04-03 Pending new draft of H4161
• 2024-04-03 New draft of H4161
• 2024-04-03 Ordered to a third reading
• 2024-04-03 Rules suspended
• 2024-04-03 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-04 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2024-08-29 Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2941 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-29 Rules suspended
• 2024-08-29 Read second reading-2
• 2024-08-29 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2941 amendment-passage
• 2024-08-29 Ordered to a third reading
• 2024-08-29 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-09-03 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-09-05 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-09-05 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2024-09-05 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2024-09-05 Enacted passage
• 2024-09-05 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-09-12 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 205 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a840a375-42e9-4aa7-93f8-9f5f073fecb4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).