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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act relative to the 2026 state primary election date"
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description: "An Act relative to the 2026 state primary election date"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "194th"
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identifier: "H 4531"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4531 (194th)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: []
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2025-09-17"
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last_action: "2025-09-23"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d77c9303-29ab-4611-ae17-a22ed667559d"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4531"
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source_hash: "d0b5453786b7cfab2b9b80a3198dfe52b821f282e22949ba7ea2b3ee778f81b6"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
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---
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# Massachusetts H 4531 (194th) — An Act relative to the 2026 state primary election date
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4531.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-09-17** Reported by the committee on House Ways and Means
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- **2025-09-17** Reported on a part of H4429
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- **2025-09-17** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-09-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2025-09-17** Rules suspended
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- **2025-09-17** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-18** Read, rules suspended, read second `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-18** Amendment (Rausch) rejected `amendment-failure`
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- **2025-09-18** Ordered to a third reading
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- **2025-09-18** Read third (title change) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-18** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2025-09-18** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2025-09-18** Enacted `passage`
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- **2025-09-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2025-09-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 34 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d77c9303-29ab-4611-ae17-a22ed667559d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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