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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing accidental death benefits for the surviving spouse of a former firefighter of the City of Boston"
description: "By Mr. Collins, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2574) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Nick Collins and Daniel J. Hunt for legislation to provide accidental death benefits for the surviving spouse of Mathew M. Troy, a former firefighter of the City of Boston. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 2574"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2574 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-01"
last_action: "2026-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ef35e9a-73d2-4d2f-86c2-a9483c518131"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2574"
source_hash: "00fed2e0575b54b1017df69c07ca489e287ba84b94379edfc158936a3e795e75"
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 S 2574 (194th) — An Act providing accidental death benefits for the surviving spouse of a former firefighter of the City of Boston
By Mr. Collins, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2574) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Nick Collins and Daniel J. Hunt for legislation to provide accidental death benefits for the surviving spouse of Mathew M. Troy, a former firefighter of the City of Boston. Public Service.
## 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/S2574.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Daniel J. Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Collins — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-05-01** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-12** Rules suspended
- **2025-06-12** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-30** House concurred
- **2025-09-03** Hearing scheduled for 09/10/2025 from 1:00 PM-4:00 PM in A-1
- **2025-09-10** Hearing rescheduled to 09/10/2025 from 01:00 PM-01:30 PM in A-1 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
- **2025-11-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-02-02** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-02-02** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-05** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-03-05** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-05** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-06-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-06-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-06-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-06-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 109 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ef35e9a-73d2-4d2f-86c2-a9483c518131`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).