---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to ensure compliance with federal standards regarding the handling of federal tax information"
description: "An Act to ensure compliance with federal standards regarding the handling of federal tax information"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4812"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4812 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-25"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6153bb55-82f4-4acf-a202-3b38fc7c6bdd"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4812"
source_hash: "cedfe8e986d5709257cb012a6eca15f4ee728c795b0f35dd638813910072e6a4"
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 4812 (190th) — An Act to ensure compliance with federal standards regarding the handling of federal tax information

## 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/H4812.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-07-25** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2018-07-25** Pending new draft of H4441
- **2018-07-25** New draft of H4441
- **2018-07-25** Ordered to a third reading
- **2018-07-25** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-31** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 225 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/6153bb55-82f4-4acf-a202-3b38fc7c6bdd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).