---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to preserve the competitiveness of group auto insurance plans."
description: "An Act to preserve the competitiveness of group auto insurance plans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4081"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4081 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Financial Services"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-12-18"
last_action: "2017-12-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/199ea87f-95df-4fd1-a640-4d8012bcaa3f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4081"
source_hash: "13fb06df7ac6b898a4b132531854b936438e77c7c37dfba9f8138d934a2203e0"
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 4081 (190th) — An Act to preserve the competitiveness of group auto insurance plans.

## 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/H4081.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Financial Services — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-18** Reported from the committee on Financial Services
- **2017-12-18** New draft of H2170
- **2017-12-18** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-12-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-12-26** Rules suspended
- **2017-12-26** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third, rules suspended and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-12-28** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-12-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-12-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-12-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-12-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-12-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 168 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/199ea87f-95df-4fd1-a640-4d8012bcaa3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).