Bill Commons

MA H 2177

in committee

An Act to provide economic security for fishing industry participants

Massachusetts · 2025-2026 Regular Session (194th General Court) · lower

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did MA H 2177 pass?

Not yet. MA H 2177 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-01-29): Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

What is MA H 2177 about?

By Representatives Sweezey of Duxbury and Kearney of Scituate, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2177) of Kenneth P. Sweezey, Patrick Joseph Kearney and others for legislation to authorize the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development to analyze the economic disruption and harm to the financial stability of those engaged in commercial fishing in the Commonwealth. Labor and Workforce Development.

Description

By Representatives Sweezey of Duxbury and Kearney of Scituate, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2177) of Kenneth P. Sweezey, Patrick Joseph Kearney and others for legislation to authorize the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development to analyze the economic disruption and harm to the financial stability of those engaged in commercial fishing in the Commonwealth. Labor and Workforce Development.

Introduced
—
Latest action
2026-01-29 — Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Kenneth P. Sweezeycosponsor
  • Patrick Joseph Kearneycosponsor
  • Antonio F. D. Cabralcosponsor
  • Mark D. Sylviacosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-01-29

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

    committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee

  2. 2025-10-08

    Hearing rescheduled to 10/08/2025 from 10:00 AM-12:15 PM in B-1 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time

  3. 2025-09-25

    Hearing scheduled for 10/08/2025 from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM in B-1

  4. 2025-02-27

    Senate concurred

  5. 2025-02-27

    Referred to the committee on Labor and Workforce Development

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

Official source

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2177

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:22:56.590024Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=MA&identifier=H 2177. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.