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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act to ensure legal parentage equality"
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description: "The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches with reference to the Senate amendment of the House Bill to ensure legal parentage equality (House, No. 4750), reports recommending passage of the accompanying bill (House, No. 4970)."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "193rd"
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identifier: "H 4970"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4970 (193rd)"
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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: 11
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2024-08-01"
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last_action: "2024-08-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06d47ea5-e04c-4f87-8671-1c80a6aecb7d"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4970"
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source_hash: "fb0ddaa6cbdf539a3cdd49bd779743856490af223f291d85b1d5bf1ced79024b"
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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 4970 (193rd) — An Act to ensure legal parentage equality
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The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches with reference to the Senate amendment of the House Bill to ensure legal parentage equality (House, No. 4750), reports recommending passage of the accompanying bill (House, No. 4970).
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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/193/H4970.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Legal Parentage Equality — primary (organization)
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- Aaron L. Saunders — cosponsor (person)
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- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
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- Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
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- Adrianne Pusateri Ramos — cosponsor (person)
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- Alice Hanlon Peisch — cosponsor (person)
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- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
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- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
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- Carmine Lawrence Gentile — cosponsor (person)
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- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
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- Danielle W. Gregoire — cosponsor (person)
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- David Allen Robertson — cosponsor (person)
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- David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf — cosponsor (person)
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- David Paul Linsky — cosponsor (person)
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- Dawne Shand — cosponsor (person)
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- Edward R. Philips — cosponsor (person)
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- Erika Uyterhoeven — cosponsor (person)
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- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
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- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
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- James C. Arena-DeRosa — cosponsor (person)
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- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
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- Jay D. Livingstone — cosponsor (person)
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- Jeffrey N. Roy — cosponsor (person)
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- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
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- John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
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- John Francis Moran — cosponsor (person)
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- John H. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
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- Jon Santiago — cosponsor (person)
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- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
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- Kate Donaghue — cosponsor (person)
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- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
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- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
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- Kevin G. Honan — cosponsor (person)
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- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
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- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
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- Margaret R. Scarsdale — cosponsor (person)
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- Marjorie C. Decker — cosponsor (person)
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- Mary S. Keefe — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael P. Kushmerek — cosponsor (person)
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- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
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- Mindy Domb — cosponsor (person)
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- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)
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- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
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- Patricia A. Duffy — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
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- Paul R. Feeney — cosponsor (person)
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- Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)
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- Rob Consalvo — cosponsor (person)
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- Rodney M. Elliott — cosponsor (person)
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- Ruth B. Balser — cosponsor (person)
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- Sally P. Kerans — cosponsor (person)
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- Samantha Montaño — cosponsor (person)
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- Sarah K. Peake — cosponsor (person)
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- Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)
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- Steven Owens — cosponsor (person)
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- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)
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- Tackey Chan — cosponsor (person)
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- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
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- Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)
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- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
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- Tricia Farley-Bouvier — cosponsor (person)
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- William F. MacGregor — cosponsor (person)
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- William J. Driscoll, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-08-01** Reported from the committee of conference
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- **2024-08-01** Reported on H4750
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- **2024-08-01** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
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- **2024-08-01** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting, the question being on acceptance
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- **2024-08-01** Rules suspended
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- **2024-08-01** Committee of conference report accepted
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- **2024-08-01** Rules suspended
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- **2024-08-01** Committee of conference report accepted, in concurrence
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- **2024-08-01** Enacted `passage`
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- **2024-08-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2024-08-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 166 of the Acts of 2024 `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/06d47ea5-e04c-4f87-8671-1c80a6aecb7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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