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Massachusetts 194th

S 2726

An Act regarding free expression

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-11 08:11:04 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Massachusetts
Session
194th
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
Not supplied
Introduced / first action
2025-11-13 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

Senate, November 13, 2025 -- Text of the Senate Bill regarding free expression (being the text of Senate document 2696, printed as amended)

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Signed by the Governor, Chapter 189 of the Acts of 2026

    executive-signature

  2. Enacted and laid before the Governor

    passage

  3. Enacted - 156 YEAS to 1 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 254 )

    passage

  4. House concurred in the Senate further amendment

  5. Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading

    referral-committee

  6. Senate concurred in the House amendment with a further amendment, see S3241

  7. Rules suspended

  8. Passed to be engrossed - 153 YEAS to 3 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 211 )

    passage

  9. Amendment 8 adopted

    amendment-passage

  10. Amendment 6 adopted, as changed

    amendment-passage

  11. Amendment 4 rejected - 23 YEAS to 133 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 210 )

    amendment-failure

  12. Amendment 3 rejected - 2 YEAS to 154 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 209 )

    amendment-failure

  13. Read third

    reading-3

  14. Rules suspended

  15. Ordered to a third reading

  16. Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)

    amendment-passage, reading-2

  17. Rules suspended

  18. Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment pending

  19. Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H5489, and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

    committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  20. Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

    referral-committee

  21. Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #104 (Yeas 35 to Nays 3)

    passage

  22. Text of S2696, reprinted as amended

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