---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing affordable health insurance options to municipal retirees"
description: "An Act providing affordable health insurance options to municipal retirees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4313"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4313 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-03-19"
last_action: "2018-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f3ad54c-464a-4609-9055-e9853052b1e6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4313"
source_hash: "41b31c8bc4a788e2c7ceeeb203e351d5c8a74fd2cad71da245b3ac416b64f5a4"
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 4313 (190th) — An Act providing affordable health insurance options to municipal retirees

## 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/H4313.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-19** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Senate concurred
- **2018-03-19** Hearing scheduled for 03/20/2018 from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM in B-1
- **2018-03-21** Rules suspended
- **2018-03-21** Read; and bill referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-26** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-03-26** Rules suspended
- **2018-03-26** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-03-26** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-03-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-03-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-03-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 57 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/8f3ad54c-464a-4609-9055-e9853052b1e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).