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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the reduction of certain toxic chemicals in firefighter personal protective equipment"
description: "Senate, July 29, 2024 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill relative to the reduction of certain toxic chemicals in firefighter personal protective equipment (Senate, No. 1502),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2902)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2902"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2902 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-29"
last_action: "2024-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c67fc11-2e71-4074-9f2f-569529a24a78"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2902"
source_hash: "c7398496cb89fe5df09d815aab76bfe377cab27cee8acf826c344e9ba7c72641"
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 2902 (193rd) — An Act relative to the reduction of certain toxic chemicals in firefighter personal protective equipment
Senate, July 29, 2024 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill relative to the reduction of certain toxic chemicals in firefighter personal protective equipment (Senate, No. 1502),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2902).
## 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/193/S2902.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Andres X. Vargas — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- David T. Vieira — cosponsor (person)
- Francisco E. Paulino — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)
- John C. Velis — cosponsor (person)
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
- Marc R. Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
- Mathew J. Muratore — cosponsor (person)
- Michael D. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Michael O. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Paul R. Feeney — cosponsor (person)
- Sal N. DiDomenico — cosponsor (person)
- Steven George Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)
- Vanna Howard — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-07-29** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
- **2024-07-29** Recommended new draft for S1502
- **2024-07-29** Substituted as a new draft for S1502
- **2024-07-29** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-07-29** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-30** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-01** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H4975 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-01** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-01** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-01** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-01** Read second `reading-2`
- **2024-08-01** Amendment (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2024-08-01** Ordered to the third reading
- **2024-08-01** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-01** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-01** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-01** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2024-08-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-08-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-08-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 182 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c67fc11-2e71-4074-9f2f-569529a24a78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).