An Act establishing the Massachusetts data privacy act

Filed by · 9 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

S2619 · Bill

19 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-09-25	Senate	S2608, reprinted as amended
2025-09-25	Senate	Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #71 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0)
2025-09-29	House	Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-06-04	House	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H5472, and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2026-06-04	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment pending
2026-06-04	House	Rules suspended
2026-06-04	House	Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2026-06-04	House	Ordered to a third reading
2026-06-04	House	Rules suspended
2026-06-04	House	Read third
2026-06-04	House	Consolidated amendment A adopted - 146 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 207)
2026-06-04	House	Text of H5472 amended, published as H5479
2026-06-04	House	Passed to be engrossed - 146 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 208)
2026-06-11	Senate	Rules suspended
2026-06-11	Senate	Senate NON-concurred in the House amendment
2026-06-11	Senate	Committee of conference appointed (Creem-Finegold-O'Connor)
2026-06-17	House	Rules suspended
2026-06-17	House	House insisted on its amendment
2026-06-17	House	Committee of conference appointed - (M. Moran-Farley-Bouvier-Vieira), in concurrence

3 recorded votes

When	Chamber	Roll call	Question	Tally
2025-09-25	Senate	No. 71	Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #71 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0)	40–0
2026-06-04 18:15	House	No. 207	On adoption of Consolidated Amendment A	146–0
2026-06-04 18:25	House	No. 208	On passing to be engrossed, as amended	146–0

44 amendments filed

39 consolidated · 3 withdrawn · 1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House A	Consolidated A		Adopted
House 9	Facial Recognition Technology	Orlando Ramos	Withdrawn
House 14	Protecting Philosophical Beliefs	Samantha Montaño	Withdrawn
House 25	Advocating for a Minor's Privacy	Samantha Montaño	Withdrawn

Showing 4 of 44. An amendment marked consolidated was folded into a consolidated amendment, which under House Rule 33F cannot be adopted except by a roll call.

1 committee vote

Ways and Means (H) · 2026-06-03 10:45 · S.2619 “An Act establishing the Massachusetts data privacy 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
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.