# Massachusetts S 2561: An Act to promote student learning and mental health

Massachusetts S 2561, An Act to promote student learning and mental health, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) Senate bill sponsored by Senate Committee on Ways and Means; status passed senate, last action 2025-07-31 (Reprinted, as amended, see S2581) (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts S 2561
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act to promote student learning and mental health
- Status: passed senate
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-07-24
- Last action: 2025-07-31, Reprinted, as amended, see S2581
- Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means
- Cosponsors: 17
- Subjects: Senate Ways and Means
- Touches household money: no
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means
- Cosponsor: Andrea Joy Campbell
- Cosponsor: Barry R. Finegold (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Brendan P. Crighton (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Carmine Lawrence Gentile (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Donald R. Berthiaume Jr. (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: James C. Arena-DeRosa (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Joanne M. Comerford (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: John C. Velis (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: John F. Keenan (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: John J. Cronin (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Julian Cyr (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Lindsay N. Sabadosa (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Mark C. Montigny (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Mike Connolly (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Nick Collins (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Patrick M. O'Connor (Republican), Senate
- Cosponsor: Paul R. Feeney (Democratic), Senate

## Actions (16)

- 2025-07-31: Reprinted, as amended, see S2581 (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Read third (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Ordered to a third reading (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Substituted, as amended, for S2549 (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Amendment #17 (Rodrigues) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Amendment #19 (Fattman) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Amendment #18 (Fattman) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Amendment #15 (Tarr) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Amendment #11 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Amendment #5 (Velis) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Amendment #3 (Dooner) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Amendment #2 (Kennedy) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-07-24: Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, July 31, 2025 (Senate)
- 2025-07-24: Order relative to subject matter adopted (Senate)
- 2025-07-24: Recommended new draft for S2549 (Senate)
- 2025-07-24: Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Filed: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2561.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
- [As Filed (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2561.pdf)

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