Massachusetts Senate Schedules July 9 Floor Debate on Social Media Children's Bill

BOSTON — July 2, 2026 — Massachusetts Senate sets July 9 floor date for children's social media bill in brief Wednesday session. Meeting for under 15 minutes, the chamber adopted an order sponsored by Senator Michael J. Rodrigues of Bristol and Plymouth directing the Committee on Ways and Means to report Senate No. 30 — the bill protecting children from addictive social media — with a recommended new draft, Senate No. 3164, and place it on the calendar for second reading July 9. Senator Patrick M. O'Connor of Plymouth and Norfolk moved most of the session's procedural business, including concurrence in House amendments to a Milford liquor license upgrade (House No. 4359) and a local culvert dam ownership bill (Senate No. 2967). The Senate also appointed a conference committee — Senators Joanne M. Comerford, Robyn K. Kennedy, and O'Connor — to resolve disagreements with the House on the child welfare protections bill (House No. 4646), and extended the Education Committee's reporting deadline to July 31 on both child care access and broader education legislation before adjourning in memory of Dorchester resident Do Quang M., a former South Vietnamese special agent who spent nine years in a re-education camp.