An Act implementing the recommendations of the Walsh-Kennedy Commission Report

Filed by Daniel J. Ryan · 40 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H2692 · Bill · docket HD4040

10 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-02-27	House	Referred to the committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
2025-02-27	Senate	Senate concurred
2025-08-26	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 09/10/2025 from 1:00 PM-5:00 PM in A-2
2025-10-08	House	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-06-10	House	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill with the same title, see H5491
2026-06-10	House	Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
2026-06-10	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendment pending
2026-06-10	House	Rules suspended
2026-06-10	House	Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2026-06-10	House	New draft substituted, see H5491

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	An Act implementing the recommendations of the Walsh-Kennedy Commission Report	House Committee on Ways and Means	Adopted

Ways and Means (H) · 2026-06-09 10:45 · H.2692 “An Act implementing the recommendations of the Walsh-Kennedy Commission Report” as amended

Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.

House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.

Date	Committee	Where	Status
2025-09-10	Public Safety and Homeland Security (J)	A-2, 24 Beacon Street, Boston	Completed

Action	Committee
Favorable	Public Safety and Homeland Security (J)
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (H)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)

In the order filed.

Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.