republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/194th/h-4531.md

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Bill	An Act relative to the 2026 state primary election date	An Act relative to the 2026 state primary election date	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 4531	Massachusetts H 4531 (194th)	bill		enacted		1	15	0	2025-09-17	2025-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/d77c9303-29ab-4611-ae17-a22ed667559d	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4531	d0b5453786b7cfab2b9b80a3198dfe52b821f282e22949ba7ea2b3ee778f81b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4531 (194th) — An Act relative to the 2026 state primary election date

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)

Timeline

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

• 2025-09-17 Reported by the committee on House Ways and Means
• 2025-09-17 Reported on a part of H4429
• 2025-09-17 Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-09-17 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2025-09-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-09-17 Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2025-09-18 Read, rules suspended, read second reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-18 Amendment (Rausch) rejected amendment-failure
• 2025-09-18 Ordered to a third reading
• 2025-09-18 Read third (title change) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-09-18 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2025-09-18 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2025-09-18 Enacted passage
• 2025-09-18 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2025-09-23 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 34 of the Acts of 2025 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d77c9303-29ab-4611-ae17-a22ed667559d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).