How to Submit Testimony Online or in Writing

Registering your position on a bill and sending a committee written testimony without going to Concord, and when to send it.

Checked against its sources October 17, 2026.

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At a Glance

The House and the Senate both take sign-ins online: you say whether you support or oppose a bill, and on the House’s form you can attach written testimony. To give a committee written testimony, email its members, or bring one printed copy for each member to the hearing. You can sign in once the hearing is scheduled, and in practice the forms close at midnight at the end of the day of the hearing. Send it early: a committee may vote as soon as its hearing ends.

  1. Find the hearing: which committee, and which day.
  2. Sign in online, House or Senate: for, against or neutral, once the hearing is scheduled.
  3. Written testimony: email the committee’s members, or bring a printed copy for each.
  4. Send it before the hearing. The committee may vote the same day.

Step by Step

  1. Find the hearing

    Open the bill’s page here: it lists each hearing with the committee, the day and the time. The Calendar shows the week’s hearings.

    Find a billThis week's hearings

  2. Sign in online

    Each chamber has its own online form on the General Court’s website, and each sign-in is for one bill at one committee’s hearing on one day. You can sign in once the hearing is scheduled, and not before: the Senate’s guidance says so of its form, and encourages you to sign in well ahead of the hearing. In practice the House’s opens the same way, and both close at midnight at the end of the day of the hearing.

    The House’s Sign-in Form and Online Testimony Submission asks, among other things, for:

    • your name, town and state;
    • who you are, such as a member of the public, an elected official, a lobbyist or state agency staff, and whom you represent, if anyone; and
    • whether you support the bill, oppose it, or are neutral.

    You may attach written testimony, or sign in without it. What you submit goes to the committee’s members.

    The Senate’s form asks you to choose the day, the committee and the bill; whether you are an elected official, a lobbyist, agency staff or a member of the public, and whom you represent, if anyone; whether you support the bill, oppose it or are neutral; and your name and contact information. Its confirmation page says how to send written testimony.

    A sign-in for or against is part of the record and is counted. For House hearings this site publishes only how many people signed in supporting, opposing and neutral, never names or written testimony.

    House sign-inSenate sign-in

  3. Write it so it is useful

    Start with the bill’s number, HB or SB and then the number, and say whether you support or oppose it. Then say why in a few specific sentences: what the bill would do to you, your family, your work or your town. If you write for an organization, say so.

  4. Send it before the hearing

    Committee members can read what is submitted online in the House’s portal, bill by bill, and are sent links to it at the end of each day their committee holds hearings. A committee can vote as soon as its hearing ends: Senate notices often say “executive session may follow”, and a House committee may meet in executive session straight after a noticed hearing. So send your testimony before the hearing, as soon as you can once it is scheduled.

  5. Email it, or bring it on paper

    The Senate’s guidance says to send written testimony to the committee through the “Email All Committee Members” link on the committee’s page on the General Court’s website. Every committee’s page here does the same: it lists the members and has a button that opens one email to all of them. Put the bill’s number in the subject line. It works for a House or a Senate committee, and for a bill whose hearing has passed but whose committee has not yet voted.

    In practice you can also bring written testimony to the hearing on paper: one printed copy for each member of the committee, which they will take and pass around. Paper copies are optional; an email reaches the same members.

    Committees

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