# Massachusetts H 62: An Act relative to extending certain COVID-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency

Massachusetts H 62, An Act relative to extending certain COVID-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by House Committee on Ways and Means; status signed, last action 2025-03-28 (Signed by the Governor, Chapter 2 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 62
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act relative to extending certain COVID-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-03-17
- Last action: 2025-03-28, Signed by the Governor, Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2025
- Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: House Ways and Means, House Steering, Policy and Scheduling, Bills in the Third Reading
- Touches household money: yes
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 1

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- COVID-19 flexibilities stay through June 2027: benefit, low. This emergency law keeps existing COVID-19 measures in place longer. It moves two expiration dates from March 31, 2025 to June 30, 2027. The extensions cover measures first passed in 2021 and 2022. People, providers, and programs using these temporary rules can keep doing so until June 30, 2027. Th…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

## Actions (18)

- 2025-03-28: Signed by the Governor, Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2025
- 2025-03-20: Enacted and laid before the Governor (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Enacted (House)
- 2025-03-20: Emergency preamble adopted (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Emergency preamble adopted (House)
- 2025-03-20: House concurred in the Senate amendment (House)
- 2025-03-20: Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading (House)
- 2025-03-20: Passed to be engrossed (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Amended (Rodrigues) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2506 (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Read third (title changed) (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Taken out of the Orders of the Day (Senate)
- 2025-03-17: Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading (Senate)
- 2025-03-17: Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed (House)
- 2025-03-17: Rules suspended (House)
- 2025-03-17: Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting (House)
- 2025-03-17: Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling (House)
- 2025-03-17: Reported on a part of H55 (House)
- 2025-03-17: Reported by the committee on House Ways and Means (House)

## Bill text

- Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2025, 2025-03-28: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H62.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 2 of the Acts of 2025 (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H62.pdf)

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- [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-H62-194 (as of 2026-11-01).