Bill Commons

MA S 305

in committee

An Act promoting entrepreneurship through employee ownership

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

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 S 305 pass?

Not yet. MA S 305 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-03-19): Accompanied a study order (under JR10), see S3023

What is MA S 305 about?

By Mr. Mark, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 305) of Paul W. Mark and Julian Cyr for legislation to encourage businesses to give their employees a stake in the company, often through stock options or Employee Stock Ownership. Economic Development and Emerging Technologies.

Who sponsors MA S 305?

Paul W. Mark is the primary sponsor of MA S 305, joined by 6 cosponsors.

Description

By Mr. Mark, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 305) of Paul W. Mark and Julian Cyr for legislation to encourage businesses to give their employees a stake in the company, often through stock options or Employee Stock Ownership. Economic Development and Emerging Technologies.

Introduced
—
Latest action
2026-03-19 — Accompanied a study order (under JR10), see S3023
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Paul W. Markprimary
  • Julian Cyrcosponsor
  • Joanne M. Comerfordcosponsor
  • Carmine Lawrence Gentilecosponsor
  • Mike Connollycosponsor
  • Liz Mirandacosponsor
  • Nick Collinscosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-03-19

    Accompanied a study order (under JR10), see S3023

  2. 2026-01-15

    Reporting date extended to Friday March 6, 2026

  3. 2025-05-29

    Hearing scheduled for 06/05/2025 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2

  4. 2025-02-27

    House concurred

  5. 2025-02-27

    Referred to the committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

Official source

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S305

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=S 305. 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.