---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating May as Asian American Pacific Islander month"
description: "By Mr. Chan of Quincy, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3360) of Tackey Chan and others for the annual issuance of a proclamation by the Governor setting apart the month of May as Asian American Pacific Islander month. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3360"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3360 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tackey Chan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2018-02-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbc09dce-767b-4393-8d59-8930720aa052"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3360"
source_hash: "345c7315041e60aa0908b673ae57d5165eadf7141296ba4ccaac183110be623c"
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 3360 (190th) — An Act designating May as Asian American Pacific Islander month

By Mr. Chan of Quincy, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3360) of Tackey Chan and others for the annual issuance of a proclamation by the Governor setting apart the month of May as Asian American Pacific Islander month. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.

## 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/190/H3360.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Tackey Chan — primary (person)
- Ann-Margaret Ferrante — cosponsor (person)
- Barbara A. L'Italien — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce J. Ayers — cosponsor (person)
- Byron Rushing — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel Cahill — cosponsor (person)
- Donald H. Wong — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph W. McGonagle, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Keiko M. Orrall — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin G. Honan — cosponsor (person)
- Paul A. Schmid, III — cosponsor (person)
- Paul R. Heroux — cosponsor (person)
- Rady Mom — cosponsor (person)
- Robert M. Koczera — cosponsor (person)
- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-23** Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Senate concurred
- **2017-04-06** Hearing scheduled for 04/11/2017 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2017-05-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-05-18** Rules suspended
- **2017-05-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-11-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-11-20** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-01-25** Rules supended
- **2018-01-25** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-01-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-01-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-02-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 19 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbc09dce-767b-4393-8d59-8930720aa052`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).