---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the municipal police training fund"
description: "An Act relative to the municipal police training fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4516"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4516 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-05-21"
last_action: "2018-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96303a8d-8809-494e-9ed7-1b151d56a28d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4516"
source_hash: "b6cf9763bb3f43968144c920dec5699c31f67d8ec98ab19bec37f5fa027c4d81"
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 4516 (190th) — An Act relative to the municipal police training fund

## 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/H4516.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-21** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2018-05-21** Reported on a part of H4231
- **2018-05-21** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-05-21** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-05-23** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-23** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-05-23** Passed to be engrossed - 149 YEAS to 4 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 351) `passage`
- **2018-05-29** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-18** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-18** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-18** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-07-18** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #446 (Yeas 36 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2018-07-18** Enacted - 144 YEAS to 4 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 412) `passage`
- **2018-07-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-07-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 153 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/96303a8d-8809-494e-9ed7-1b151d56a28d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).