An Act honoring Blue Star Families

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

Became Chapter 143 of the Acts of 2026.

S2903 · Bill

25 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2026-01-08	Senate	Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
2026-01-08	Senate	Reported on a part of S1719
2026-01-08	Senate	Committee recommended ought to pass
2026-01-08	Senate	Also based on S2449
2026-01-08	Senate	Order relative to subject matter adopted
2026-01-08	Senate	Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 15, 2026
2026-01-15	Senate	Read second and ordered to a third reading
2026-01-15	Senate	Read third
2026-01-15	Senate	Passed to be engrossed -- see Roll Call #128 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0)
2026-01-22	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 H5439, 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. 198)
2026-07-13	Senate	Rules suspended
2026-07-13	Senate	Senate concurred in the House amendment with a further amendment
2026-07-13	House	Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading
2026-07-13	House	House concurred in the Senate further amendment
2026-07-13	House	Enacted
2026-07-13	Senate	Enacted and laid before the Governor
2026-07-15	Executive	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 143 of the Acts of 2026

2 recorded votes

When	Chamber	Roll call	Question	Tally
2026-01-15	Senate	No. 128	Passed to be engrossed -- see Roll Call #128 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0)	38–0
2026-05-20 15:54	House	No. 198	On passing to be engrossed as amended	156–0

4 amendments filed

2 adopted · 2 withdrawn

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	An Act honoring Blue Star Families.	House Committee on Ways and Means	Adopted
House 2	Inclusion of Firefighters	Susannah M. Whipps	Withdrawn
House 3	Autism and neurodivergent registration plates	Homar Gómez	Withdrawn
Senate 1	Eligibility	Bruce E. Tarr	Adopted

2 committee votes

Ways and Means (S) · 2026-01-08 16:45 · Ought to pass – by substitution of a New Draft

favorable · 17

no action · 1

Michael D. Brady

Ways and Means (H) · 2026-05-19 10:45 · S.2903 “An Act honoring Blue Star Families” 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
In Part	Ways and Means (S)
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (H)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)
Correctly Drawn	Bills in the Third Reading (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.