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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker"
+description: "An Act relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
+legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
+session: "194th"
+identifier: "H 4645"
+citation: "Massachusetts H 4645 (194th)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-10-22"
+last_action: "2025-12-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66956d38-e70e-441f-a81f-4125a35ef3fa"
+source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4645"
+source_hash: "53a0ec5a1ba3678209577a58be7697d12b9560fba26735b1a8fe579d917039a8"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
+---
+
+# Massachusetts H 4645 (194th) — An Act relative to assault and battery upon a transit worker
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4645.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- H. 4645 On passing to be engrossed — **160–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading — primary (organization)
+- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
+- Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
+- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher J. Worrell — cosponsor (person)
+- David Biele — cosponsor (person)
+- David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)
+- David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf — cosponsor (person)
+- James M. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
+- Jay D. Livingstone — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Ann Giannino — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. Marsi — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph W. McGonagle, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael D. Brady — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul J. Donato — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard G. Wells, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney M. Elliott — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean Reid — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven George Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Ultrino — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas P. Walsh — cosponsor (person)
+- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-10-22** Substituted for H1877
+- **2025-10-22** Passed to be engrossed - 160 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 93 ) `passage`
+- **2025-10-23** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-11-06** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2697 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-11-06** Also based on S2531
+- **2025-11-06** Order relative to subject matter adopted
+- **2025-11-06** Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, November 13, 2025
+- **2025-11-13** Read second `reading-2`
+- **2025-11-13** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2697 `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-11-13** Ordered to a third reading
+- **2025-11-13** Read third `reading-3`
+- **2025-11-13** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #98 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0) `passage`
+- **2025-11-17** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
+- **2025-11-24** House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment
+- **2025-11-24** Rules suspended
+- **2025-11-24** Senate concurred in the House further amendment
+- **2025-11-24** Enacted `passage`
+- **2025-11-24** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
+- **2025-12-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 79 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66956d38-e70e-441f-a81f-4125a35ef3fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
+