What changed in Massachusetts
Insurance law does not sit still, but most guides are written once and left alone. Repealed programs and retired forms keep circulating for years. This is what actually changed inMassachusetts, when, and where to verify it.
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July 1, 2025
Minimum coverageMinimum liability limits raised from 20/40/5 to 25/50/30
Acts of 2024, chapter 275 raised the compulsory bodily injury limits from $20,000/$40,000 to $25,000/$50,000 and the property damage limit from $5,000 to $30,000, for policies issued or renewed on or after July 1, 2025. Uninsured motorist coverage follows the bodily injury limits, so it rose too. Guides that still quote 20/40/5 for Massachusetts are out of date.
Massachusetts General Court — Acts of 2024, Chapter 275
What this list does and does not cover
Recorded here: changes to the rules this site tracks for Massachusetts — liability minimums, SR-22 and proof-of-insurance requirements, penalties for driving uninsured, the fault system, what a lapse costs, new-resident deadlines and crash reporting. Each entry names the session law or statute that made the change and the date it took effect, not the date it was signed.
Not recorded: rate filings, individual insurer decisions, court rulings that do not change the text of the law, and changes to rules outside those seven subjects. A short list does not mean a quiet legislature — it means little moved in the parts of Massachusetts law a driver has to comply with.
A change that has passed but has not yet taken effect is not shown as current anywhere on this site. It sits on the Massachusetts pages as a dated pending value and replaces the current figure on the morning it comes into force. You can see every pending change across the country at the top of the national change feed, and the sources behind the Massachusetts figures on its statute index.