---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to facilitate the delay of the income tax filing deadline"
description: "An Act to facilitate the delay of the income tax filing deadline"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4677"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4677 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-05-04"
last_action: "2020-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6c452a2-de7c-4469-af49-91eed1655d77"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4677"
source_hash: "236bb614dc66b103fdb3693326c093ca17a9efbefcbbbbf81393fdcdcdeb3748"
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 4677 (191st) — An Act to facilitate the delay of the income tax filing deadline

## 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/H4677.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Charles D. Baker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-05-04** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2020-05-04** New draft of H4593
- **2020-05-04** Rules suspended
- **2020-05-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-05-06** Read third `reading-3`
- **2020-05-06** Passed to be engrossed - 157 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 166) `passage`
- **2020-05-07** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-05-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-05-11** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-05-13** Enacted - 157 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 170) `passage`
- **2020-05-14** Enacted - see Roll Call #187 [38 YEAS - 0 NAYS] `passage`
- **2020-05-14** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-05-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 78 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6c452a2-de7c-4469-af49-91eed1655d77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).