---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act requiring candidates for mayor and council in Framingham to adhere to and report in accordance with Section 19 of Chapter 55"
description: "Message from [BACKING TEXT]."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4046"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4046 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-11-27"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17eb8473-6785-4f3b-a9c5-795e1e22231a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4046"
source_hash: "3b8a77133ec9102c60fc061eb4b65a31a362bdccf4e4be49662c83a7e4b75bc9"
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 4046 (190th) — An Act requiring candidates for mayor and council in Framingham to adhere to and report in accordance with Section 19 of Chapter 55

Message from [BACKING TEXT].

## 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/H4046.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-11-27** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-30** Senate concurred
- **2017-12-28** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-12-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-12-28** Rules suspended
- **2017-12-28** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-12-28** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-02-20** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-02-22** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** House concurred in the Senate amendments
- **2018-03-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-03-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 46 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/17eb8473-6785-4f3b-a9c5-795e1e22231a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).