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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to additional unemployment benefits for the neediest recipients currently excluded from the Lost Wages Assistance program"
description: "Senate, October 26, 2020 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the Senate Bill relative to additional unemployment benefits for the neediest recipients currently excluded from the Lost Wages Assistance program (Senate, No. 2930),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2934)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2934"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2934 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Senate Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-10-26"
last_action: "2020-10-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95c890af-844a-4223-80d0-b30b20fd7857"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2934"
source_hash: "aa97a0c83b93fed19c5d3036557f2b879675a23b96567c12e7f6f2e14be3c0a9"
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 2934 (191st) — An Act relative to additional unemployment benefits for the neediest recipients currently excluded from the Lost Wages Assistance program
Senate, October 26, 2020 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means to whom was referred the Senate Bill relative to additional unemployment benefits for the neediest recipients currently excluded from the Lost Wages Assistance program (Senate, No. 2930),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2934).
## 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/191/S2934.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Eric P. Lesser — cosponsor (person)
- Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia D. Jehlen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-10-26** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
- **2020-10-26** Recommended new draft of S2930
- **2020-10-26** Rules suspended
- **2020-10-26** New draft of S2930
- **2020-10-26** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-10-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-10-26** Rules suspended
- **2020-10-26** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-10-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-10-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-10-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-10-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-10-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 197 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95c890af-844a-4223-80d0-b30b20fd7857`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).