An Act facilitating better interactions between police officers and persons with autism spectrum disorder

Filed by · 19 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

Became Chapter 112 of the Acts of 2026.

S2565 · Bill

16 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-07-24	Senate	Text of S2558, reprinted as amended
2025-07-24	Senate	Passed to be engrossed -- see Roll Call #65 (Yeas 39 to Yeas 0)
2025-07-28	House	Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-05-20	House	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H5438, and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2026-05-20	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment pending
2026-05-20	House	Rules suspended
2026-05-20	House	Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2026-05-20	House	Ordered to a third reading
2026-05-20	House	Rules suspended
2026-05-20	House	Read third
2026-05-20	House	Passed to be engrossed - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 197)
2026-06-11	Senate	Rules suspended
2026-06-11	Senate	Senate concurred in the House amendment
2026-06-15	House	Enacted
2026-06-15	Senate	Enacted and laid before the Governor
2026-06-25	Executive	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 112 of the Acts of 2026

2 recorded votes

When	Chamber	Roll call	Question	Tally
2025-07-24	Senate	No. 65	Passed to be engrossed -- see Roll Call #65 (Yeas 39 to Yeas 0)	39–0
2026-05-20 15:20	House	No. 197	On passing to be engrossed as amended	156–0

2 amendments filed

1 adopted · 1 withdrawn

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	An Act facilitating better interactions between police officers and persons with autism spectrum disorder.	House Committee on Ways and Means	Adopted
House 2	Expanding those served by a blue-envelope	Joseph D. McKenna	Withdrawn

1 committee vote

Ways and Means (H) · 2026-05-19 10:45 · S.2565 “An Act facilitating better interactions between police officers and persons with autism spectrum disorder” 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
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (H)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)
Correctly Drawn	Bills in the Third Reading (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.