Became Chapter 79 of the Acts of 2026.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-04 | Senate | Referred to the committee on Election Laws |
| 2025-12-08 | House | House concurred |
| 2025-12-10 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 12/12/2025 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only |
| 2025-12-10 | Joint | Hearing rescheduled to 12/15/2025 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only. Hearing date changed |
| 2026-01-15 | Senate | Bill reported favorably by committee |
| 2026-01-15 | Senate | Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2026-03-19 | Senate | Taken out of the Orders of the Day |
| 2026-03-19 | Senate | Read third and passed to be engrossed |
| 2026-03-23 | House | Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling |
| 2026-04-09 | House | Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting |
| 2026-04-09 | House | Rules suspended |
| 2026-04-09 | House | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2026-04-30 | House | Read third and passed to be engrossed |
| 2026-05-04 | House | Enacted |
| 2026-05-04 | Senate | Enacted and laid before the Governor |
| 2026-05-13 | Executive | Signed by the Governor, Chapter 79 of the Acts of 2026 |
Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.
| Date | Committee | Where | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-15 | Election Laws (J) | Written Testimony Only, 24 Beacon Street, Boston | Completed |
| Action | Committee |
|---|---|
| Favorable | Election Laws (J) |
| Correctly Drawn | Bills in the Third Reading (S) |
| Place in OD | Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H) |
| Correctly Drawn | Bills in the Third Reading (H) |
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.