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| Bill | An Act to ensure legal parentage equality | The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches with reference to the Senate amendment of the House Bill to ensure legal parentage equality (House, No. 4750), reports recommending passage of the accompanying bill (House, No. 4970). | us/states/ma | Massachusetts General Court | 193rd | H 4970 | Massachusetts H 4970 (193rd) |
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enacted | 1 | 11 | 0 | 2024-08-01 | 2024-08-08 | openstates | ocd-bill/06d47ea5-e04c-4f87-8671-1c80a6aecb7d | https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4970 | fb0ddaa6cbdf539a3cdd49bd779743856490af223f291d85b1d5bf1ced79024b | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Massachusetts H 4970 (193rd) — An Act to ensure legal parentage equality
The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches with reference to the Senate amendment of the House Bill to ensure legal parentage equality (House, No. 4750), reports recommending passage of the accompanying bill (House, No. 4970).
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Sponsors
- Legal Parentage Equality — primary (organization)
- Aaron L. Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
- Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
- Adrianne Pusateri Ramos — cosponsor (person)
- Alice Hanlon Peisch — cosponsor (person)
- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Carmine Lawrence Gentile — cosponsor (person)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Danielle W. Gregoire — cosponsor (person)
- David Allen Robertson — cosponsor (person)
- David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf — cosponsor (person)
- David Paul Linsky — cosponsor (person)
- Dawne Shand — cosponsor (person)
- Edward R. Philips — cosponsor (person)
- Erika Uyterhoeven — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- James C. Arena-DeRosa — cosponsor (person)
- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jay D. Livingstone — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Roy — cosponsor (person)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
- John Francis Moran — cosponsor (person)
- John H. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Jon Santiago — cosponsor (person)
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Donaghue — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin G. Honan — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret R. Scarsdale — cosponsor (person)
- Marjorie C. Decker — cosponsor (person)
- Mary S. Keefe — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Kushmerek — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
- Mindy Domb — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia A. Duffy — cosponsor (person)
- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
- Paul R. Feeney — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)
- Rob Consalvo — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney M. Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth B. Balser — cosponsor (person)
- Sally P. Kerans — cosponsor (person)
- Samantha Montaño — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah K. Peake — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)
- Tackey Chan — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
- Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Tricia Farley-Bouvier — cosponsor (person)
- William F. MacGregor — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Driscoll, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2024-08-01 Reported from the committee of conference
- 2024-08-01 Reported on H4750
- 2024-08-01 Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
referral-committee - 2024-08-01 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting, the question being on acceptance
- 2024-08-01 Rules suspended
- 2024-08-01 Committee of conference report accepted
- 2024-08-01 Rules suspended
- 2024-08-01 Committee of conference report accepted, in concurrence
- 2024-08-01 Enacted
passage - 2024-08-01 Enacted and laid before the Governor
passage - 2024-08-08 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 166 of the Acts of 2024
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/06d47ea5-e04c-4f87-8671-1c80a6aecb7d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).