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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act designating veterans suicide awareness and remembrance day"
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description: "By Representative Meschino of Hull, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3388) of Joan Meschino and others for the issuance of an annual proclamation by the Governor to designate September 22 as military service members and veterans suicide awareness and remembrance day. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "194th"
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identifier: "H 3388"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 3388 (194th)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Joan Meschino"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2025-02-27"
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last_action: "2025-11-19"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42e2597a-a0e3-4fab-a823-ca01dee220e7"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3388"
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source_hash: "8c7cded304c963f31b95d1edbd3e7c7120883dff0ccf0384abe314b1ea187192"
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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 3388 (194th) — An Act designating veterans suicide awareness and remembrance day
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By Representative Meschino of Hull, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3388) of Joan Meschino and others for the issuance of an annual proclamation by the Governor to designate September 22 as military service members and veterans suicide awareness and remembrance day. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
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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/194/H3388.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Joan Meschino — primary (person)
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- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
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- Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
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- David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)
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- Homar Gómez — cosponsor (person)
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- Justin Thurber — cosponsor (person)
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- Patrick Joseph Kearney — cosponsor (person)
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- Richard G. Wells, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Steven J. Ouellette — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-27** Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-27** Senate concurred
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- **2025-05-30** Hearing scheduled for 06/04/2025 from 11:00 AM-05:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium
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- **2025-08-18** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2025-08-28** Rules suspended
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- **2025-08-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2025-09-18** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-22** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
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- **2025-10-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
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- **2025-10-30** Accompanied by S2189
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- **2025-10-30** Rules suspended
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- **2025-10-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2025-11-06** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-11-10** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2025-11-10** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2025-11-12** Enacted `passage`
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- **2025-11-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2025-11-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 66 of the Acts of 2025 `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/42e2597a-a0e3-4fab-a823-ca01dee220e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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