Bill Commons

MA S 997

in committee

An Act creating an office of tenant protections

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 997 pass?

Not yet. MA S 997 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-12-04): Accompanied a study order, see S2766

What is MA S 997 about?

By Mr. Gomez, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 997) of Adam Gomez for legislation to create an office of tenant protections within the executive office of housing and livable communities. Housing.

Who sponsors MA S 997?

Adam Gómez is the primary sponsor of MA S 997.

Description

By Mr. Gomez, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 997) of Adam Gomez for legislation to create an office of tenant protections within the executive office of housing and livable communities. Housing.

Introduced
—
Latest action
2025-12-04 — Accompanied a study order, see S2766
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Adam Gómezprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-12-04

    Accompanied a study order, see S2766

  2. 2025-11-07

    Hearing scheduled for 11/19/2025 from 11:00 AM-05:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium

  3. 2025-02-27

    House concurred

  4. 2025-02-27

    Referred to the committee on Housing

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

Official source

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S997

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 997. 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.