# Massachusetts H 4249: An Act relative to vital statistics

Massachusetts H 4249, An Act relative to vital statistics, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by NONE; status signed, last action 2025-11-20 (Signed by the Governor, Chapter 68 of the Acts of 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts H 4249
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act relative to vital statistics
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-07-04
- Last action: 2025-11-20, Signed by the Governor, Chapter 68 of the Acts of 2025
- Sponsor: NONE
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: House Bills in the Third Reading
- Touches household money: yes
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 2

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Stronger privacy in vital records: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, a birth to unmarried parents does not list the other parent unless parentage is legally acknowledged or decided. Death records no longer include a Social Security number. These rules reduce identity theft risk and protect family privacy.
- Standard data for births, marriages, deaths: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, local clerks must record standard facts for births, marriages, and deaths in their city or town. For births, they record the baby’s date and place of birth, name, sex, residence, and each parent’s birth name, birthplace, and birth date. For marriages, they record the wedding…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: NONE

## Actions (13)

- 2025-11-20: Signed by the Governor, Chapter 68 of the Acts of 2025
- 2025-11-13: Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor (Senate)
- 2025-11-12: Re-enacted (House)
- 2025-11-10: Emergency preamble adopted (Senate)
- 2025-11-10: Emergency preamble adopted (House)
- 2025-11-06: Governor's amendment adopted (Senate)
- 2025-11-06: Rules suspended (Senate)
- 2025-10-08: Governor's amendment considered (in the form approved by the committee on Bills in the Third Reading) (House)
- 2025-10-08: Bills in the Third Reading special report accepted (House)
- 2025-07-10: Referred to the committee on House Bills in the Third Reading (House)
- 2025-07-04: For message, see H4250, Attachment C (House)
- 2025-07-04: Governor returned to the House with recommendation of amendment (House)
- 2025-07-04: Enacted as section 29 of the General Appropriation Bill, see H4240 (House)

## Bill text

- Chapter 68 of the Acts of 2025, 2025-11-20: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4249.pdf)

## Related bills

- H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax abatements (signed)
- H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police chief Neal Hovey (passed senate)
- H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G.L. chapter 59, section 5, clauses seventeenth D and forty-first C in the town o… (passed house)
- H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust to acquire year-round housing occupancy restrictions (signed)
- H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nicholas Spinale (second reading)
- H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the position of firefighter in the town of Dudley (signed)

## Sources
- [Chapter 68 of the Acts of 2025 (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4249.pdf)

## Related
- [H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax aba…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4585-194)
- [H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police ch…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5435-194)
- [H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5515-194)
- [H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H3909-194)
- [H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nichola…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5429-194)
- [H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the p…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5520-194)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4249-194 (as of 2026-11-01).