An Act enhancing child welfare protections

Filed by · 5 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H4646 · Bill

20 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-10-22	House	H4644, published as amended
2025-10-22	House	Passed to be engrossed - 159 YEAS to 1 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 96)
2025-10-27	Senate	Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means
2026-06-04	Senate	Also based on S2659
2026-06-04	Senate	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3111
2026-06-04	Senate	Order relative to subject matter adopted
2026-06-04	Senate	Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, June 11, 2026
2026-06-11	Senate	Read second
2026-06-11	Senate	Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3111
2026-06-11	Senate	Reprinted, as amended, see S3121
2026-06-11	Senate	Ordered to a third reading
2026-06-11	Senate	Read third
2026-06-11	Senate	Passed to be engrossed -- see Roll Call #192 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0)
2026-07-01	House	Rules suspended
2026-07-01	House	House NON-concurred in the Senate amendment
2026-07-01	House	Committee of conference appointed - (Livingstone-Garcia-Sullivan-Almeida)
2026-07-02	Senate	Rules suspended
2026-07-02	Senate	Senate insisted on its amendment
2026-07-02	Senate	Committee of conference appointed (Comerford-Kennedy-O'Connor), in concurrence
2026-07-30	House	Reported by H5629

When	Chamber	Roll call	Question	Tally
2026-06-11	Senate	No. 192	Passed to be engrossed -- see Roll Call #192 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0)	39–0

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
Senate 1	An Act enhancing child welfare protections		Adopted

Ways and Means (S) · 2026-06-04 11:30 · Ought to pass with an amendment - New Text

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

Action	Committee
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (S)
Accompanied

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.