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

Reported by House Committee on Ways and Means · 41 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H5491 · Bill

16 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2026-06-10	House	Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-06-10	House	Pending new draft of H2692
2026-06-10	House	New draft of H2692
2026-06-10	House	Ordered to a third reading
2026-06-10	House	Rules suspended
2026-06-10	House	Read third
2026-06-10	House	Passed to be engrossed - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 212)
2026-06-11	Senate	Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means
2026-08-10	Senate	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3251
2026-08-10	Senate	Rules suspended
2026-08-10	Senate	Read second
2026-08-10	Senate	Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3251
2026-08-10	Senate	Ordered to a third reading
2026-08-13	Senate	Taken out of the Orders of the Day
2026-08-13	Senate	Read third and passed to be engrossed
2026-08-17	House	Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading

When	Chamber	Roll call	Question	Tally
2026-06-10 15:23	House	No. 212	On passing to be engrossed	156–0

1 adopted

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

Ways and Means (S) · 2026-08-10 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.

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.