---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to minimum wage, paid family medical leave and the sales tax holiday"
description: "An Act relative to minimum wage, paid family medical leave and the sales tax holiday"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4640"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4640 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 31
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-06-20"
last_action: "2018-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f35a08d-b90a-4a20-953b-60426236ab32"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4640"
source_hash: "f74f4656c33c1be0f8354fccd70dfa759d73b9310b58de6039667182ffd1d2ad"
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 4640 (190th) — An Act relative to minimum wage, paid family medical leave and the sales tax holiday

## 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/H4640.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-20** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2018-06-20** New draft of S1004, H1042, H1544, H1595, H2172 and H2365
- **2018-06-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-06-20** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-20** Read second `reading-2`
- **2018-06-20** Ordered to a third reading - 114 YEAS to 37 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 377)
- **2018-06-20** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-20** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-06-20** Amendment 1 pending `amendment-deferral`
- **2018-06-20** Laid aside on a point of order
- **2018-06-20** Decision of Chair stands - 116 YEAS to 34 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 378)
- **2018-06-20** Amendment 2 pending `amendment-deferral`
- **2018-06-20** Laid aside on a point of order
- **2018-06-20** Decision of Chair stands - 115 YEAS to 35 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 379)
- **2018-06-20** Amendment 3 rejected - 35 YEAS to 116 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 380) `amendment-failure`
- **2018-06-20** Amendment 4 rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2018-06-20** Amendment 5 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-20** Passed to be engrossed - 126 YEAS to 25 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 381) `passage`
- **2018-06-20** Motion to reconsider negatived
- **2018-06-20** Read
- **2018-06-20** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-20** Read second `reading-2`
- **2018-06-20** Amendment #1 (Jehlen) rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2018-06-20** Ordered to a third reading
- **2018-06-20** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-06-20** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #426 (Yeas 30 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2018-06-20** Enacted - 119 YEAS to 34 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 382) `passage`
- **2018-06-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-06-21** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-06-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 121 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/2f35a08d-b90a-4a20-953b-60426236ab32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).