---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act implementing the joint recommendations of the Massachusetts criminal justice review"
description: "An Act implementing the joint recommendations of the Massachusetts criminal justice review"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4012"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4012 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-11-06"
last_action: "2018-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af5deca3-d0cc-4d9d-b2b3-5ef06a44e8d7"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4012"
source_hash: "86cc8362141887e6e488fdce20f5c61e45247368503a959f8d8c4b355a02cbee"
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 4012 (190th) — An Act implementing the joint recommendations of the Massachusetts criminal justice review

## 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/H4012.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-11-06** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2017-11-06** Pending new draft of H3935
- **2017-11-08** New draft of H3935
- **2017-11-08** Ordered to a third reading
- **2017-11-13** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-13** Read third `reading-3`
- **2017-11-13** Passed to be engrossed - 154 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 283) `passage`
- **2017-11-14** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-04** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2391 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-04** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-04** Read second `reading-2`
- **2018-04-04** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2391 `amendment-passage`
- **2018-04-04** Ordered to a third reading
- **2018-04-04** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-04-04** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #347 (Yeas 37 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-04** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2018-04-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-04-13** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 72 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/af5deca3-d0cc-4d9d-b2b3-5ef06a44e8d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).