US state regulation
Massachusetts
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Massachusetts - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 48/100 Above median
- Regulations tracked
- 6 Top quartile
- Enacted into law
- 6
- Categories regulated
- 2/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 6 enacted · 2/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
Massachusetts is a dense, high-tracker archive: 6 tracked rows and 48/100, with 6 enacted across 2 of 5 policy areas, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 48/100
- tracker (ceiling tercile)
- 6
- tracked rows (dense tercile)
- 6
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Massachusetts legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Massachusetts's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 6 Tracked rows in archive
- 6 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 48/100 Portal tracker score
- #8 Of 51 by volume
- #15 Of 51 by tracker score
- Connecticut Nearest volume peer 6 rows
- 2 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Massachusetts's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: Massachusetts is above the peer average for tracked volume and above the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Massachusetts enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 3 in 2018
Policy coverage
Massachusetts enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from Massachusetts's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Massachusetts regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Massachusetts's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Massachusetts's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
81/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- B 6 tracked
88th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- B 48/100
76th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- B 2 categories
76th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
Massachusetts Act to Establish Pay Equity (Salary History)
H 1603 Effective: 2018-07-01Massachusetts prohibits salary history inquiries — one of the first such laws in the US.
Massachusetts Minimum Fair Wage Law
M.G.L. c. 151 Effective: 2023-01-01Massachusetts minimum wage $15.00/hr. Tipped workers: $6.75/hr (service rate) with tips to $15.00.
Massachusetts Non-Competition Agreement Act
M.G.L. c. 149 sec. 24L Effective: 2018-10-01Massachusetts limits non-competes to employees with duties-aligned scope. Maximum 1 year (1.5 years for breach). Garden leave or equivalent required.
Massachusetts Pay Transparency Act
SB 2965 Effective: 2025-10-29Pay ranges for 25+ employees. Pay data reports for 100+.
Massachusetts PFML + Earned Sick Time
H 4400 / M.G.L. c. 175M Effective: 2021-01-01Massachusetts PFML: 12 weeks family leave, 20 weeks medical leave. Premiums shared. Sick: 40 hrs/year.
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Read with Massachusetts
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Massachusetts (FULL · MID · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
FULL MID QUIET WORKER-LED
Connecticut · FULL
Connecticut tracks 6 rows (more by 0 than Massachusetts); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Minnesota · FULL
Minnesota tracks 5 rows (fewer by 1 than Massachusetts); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Washington · DENSE
Washington tracks 7 rows (more by 1 than Massachusetts); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Texas · FULL
Texas tracks 5 rows (fewer by 1 than Massachusetts); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Colorado (CEILING score pole)
Colorado sits near Massachusetts on archive volume yet stamps CEILING while this page stamps MID.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
Massachusetts's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (5 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in Massachusetts
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Massachusetts state-rule registry · 2024 Massachusetts: 6 tracked · 6 enacted · tracker 48/100 (FULL/MID). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Massachusetts's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.