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An Act promoting rule of law, oversight, trust, and equal constitutional treatment ("The PROTECT Act")

Reported by Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security · 95 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H5293 · Bill

9 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2026-03-23	House	Reported from the committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
2026-03-23	House	New draft of H5158
2026-03-23	House	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-03-25	House	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill, see H5305
2026-03-25	House	Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
2026-03-25	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
2026-03-25	House	Rules suspended
2026-03-25	House	Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2026-03-25	House	New draft substituted, see H5305

1 amendments filed

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	An Act promoting rule of law, oversight, trust and equal constitutional treatment	House Committee on Ways and Means	Adopted

2 committee votes

Public Safety and Homeland Security (J) · 2026-03-20 13:10 · Poll

favorable · 11

reserve right · 2

Ways and Means (H) · 2026-03-24 10:45 · H.5293 “An Act promoting rule of law, oversight, trust, and equal constitutional treatment (“The PROTECT Act”)” as amended

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

Committee actions

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

Cosponsors

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.