---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to simulcasting and racing."
description: "An Act relative to simulcasting and racing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4003"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4003 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-07-29"
last_action: "2019-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62645351-18e9-4818-b31b-a33210fac861"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4003"
source_hash: "1db647a36f1767e9a235715e7a22ccf4ae006ae003cb15cf74d2fd0dad7fb6cc"
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 4003 (191st) — An Act relative to simulcasting and racing.

## 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/191/H4003.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-29** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2019-07-29** Reported on a part of H74
- **2019-07-29** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-07-29** Rules suspended
- **2019-07-29** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-07-30** Read, rules suspended, read second `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-07-30** Amended (Rodrigues) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2305 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-07-30** Ordered to a third reading
- **2019-07-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-07-30** House NON-concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2019-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2019-07-30** Senate insisted on its amendment
- **2019-07-31** House NON-concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2019-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2019-07-31** Senate again insisted on its amendment
- **2019-07-31** House receded from its action
- **2019-07-31** Further amendment adopted, see H4023 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2019-07-31** Senate concurred in the further House amendment
- **2019-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-08-01** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-08-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-08-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-08-01** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 47 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62645351-18e9-4818-b31b-a33210fac861`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).