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An Act updating the Move Over Law

Filed by  ·  1 cosponsor  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

S2653  ·  Bill

11 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2025-10-16SenateText of S2642, reprinted as amended
2025-10-16SenatePassed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #74 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0)
2025-10-20HouseRead; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-07-30HouseCommittee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H5622, and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2026-07-31HouseCommittee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment pending
2026-07-31HouseRules suspended
2026-07-31HouseRead second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2026-07-31HouseOrdered to a third reading
2026-07-31HouseRules suspended
2026-07-31HouseRead third
2026-07-31HousePassed to be engrossed - 157 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 258)

1 recorded vote

WhenChamberRoll callQuestionTally
2025-10-16SenateNo. 74Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #74 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0)39–0

1 amendments filed

1 adopted

No.TitleMoved byOutcome
House 1An Act updating the Move Over LawHouse Committee on Ways and MeansAdopted

1 committee vote

Ways and Means (H)  ·  2026-07-30 10:45  ·  S.2653 “An Act relative to the move over law” as amended

favorable · 29

no action · 5

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

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
Favorable with AmendmentWays and Means (H)
Place in ODSteering, Policy and Scheduling (H)
Correctly DrawnBills 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.