---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke"
description: "An Act relative to the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4036"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4036 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-11-15"
last_action: "2017-11-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d49c35c9-220d-488b-9ee4-94fdf8669aa5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4036"
source_hash: "2c1d339c5965694476cd1ad7ec71810bd218ae21918c6ffe447164b52390ccd3"
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 4036 (190th) — An Act relative to the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke

## 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/H4036.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2017-11-15** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2017-11-15** Report on a part of H3869
- **2017-11-15** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-11-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-11-15** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-15** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-11-15** Passed to be engrossed - 152 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 301) `passage`
- **2017-11-15** Read, rules suspend, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-11-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-11-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-11-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 136 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d49c35c9-220d-488b-9ee4-94fdf8669aa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).