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---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to vital statistics"
description: "Section 29 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 (see House, No. 4240), which had been returned by Her Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message, see Attachment C of House, No. 4250). July 4, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4249"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4249 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-07-04"
last_action: "2025-11-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9fef09c-65fa-4708-a936-333651c437d6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4249"
source_hash: "fc04fd23428da77640dc5d7ca28f6be9fd4e2568c9fa89557ca68d51413c3945"
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 4249 (194th) — An Act relative to vital statistics
Section 29 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 (see House, No. 4240), which had been returned by Her Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message, see Attachment C of House, No. 4250). July 4, 2025.
## 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/194/H4249.pdf)
## Sponsors
- NONE — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-07-04** Enacted as section 29 of the General Appropriation Bill, see H4240 `passage`
- **2025-07-04** Governor returned to the House with recommendation of amendment
- **2025-07-04** For message, see H4250, Attachment C
- **2025-07-10** Referred to the committee on House Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-08** Bills in the Third Reading special report accepted
- **2025-10-08** Governor's amendment considered (in the form approved by the committee on Bills in the Third Reading)
- **2025-11-06** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-06** Governor's amendment adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-11-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-11-12** Re-enacted
- **2025-11-13** Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor
- **2025-11-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 68 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9fef09c-65fa-4708-a936-333651c437d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).