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---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to affordable car rentals"
description: "Senate, September 18, 2025 -- Text of the Senate Bill relative to affordable car rentals (Senate, No. 2616) (being the text of Senate document numbered 2603, printed as amended)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 2616"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2616 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-09-18"
last_action: "2025-11-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff5f7be9-0b62-4883-b0a4-e18eb76fdcf2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2616"
source_hash: "cb2796143a140fdbcc1f07739a2b4eec41d787f3287f58ae36feee8f118143a2"
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 2616 (194th) — An Act relative to affordable car rentals
Senate, September 18, 2025 -- Text of the Senate Bill relative to affordable car rentals (Senate, No. 2616) (being the text of Senate document numbered 2603, printed as amended)
## 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/S2616.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-09-18** S2603, printed as amended
- **2025-09-18** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #69 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2025-09-22** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-05** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H4705, and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-11-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment pending
- **2025-11-05** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-05** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) `reading-2`
- **2025-11-05** Ordered to a third reading
- **2025-11-05** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-13** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-13** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2025-11-17** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-11-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-11-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 78 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/ff5f7be9-0b62-4883-b0a4-e18eb76fdcf2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).