---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act reorganizing certain licensing agencies of the executive department"
description: "Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation relative to reorganizing certain licensing agencies of the executive department."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3774"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3774 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-05-20"
last_action: "2021-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdb1ee82-b31a-4fed-be29-a43528249057"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3774"
source_hash: "42e00a25c039ace4636f9851ac43645c8966d8b4f05c49dc874f2bd34cbb0859"
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 3774 (192nd) — An Act reorganizing certain licensing agencies of the executive department

Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation relative to reorganizing certain licensing agencies of the executive department.

## 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/192/H3774.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-20** Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-27** Senate concurred
- **2021-05-28** Hearing scheduled for 06/07/2021 from 11:00 AM-02:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-06-17** Committee recommended ought to be approved (for Majority Report see S2476)
- **2021-06-17** Placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session, the question being "Shall this reorganization plan be approved?"
- **2021-06-21** Committee recommended ought to be approved
- **2021-06-21** Placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting, the question being on acceptance
- **2021-06-24** Postponed to the next session
- **2021-07-01** Postponed to the next session
- **2021-07-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-07-15** Reorganization plan approved
- **2021-07-19** Laid aside as moot
- **2021-08-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 39 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdb1ee82-b31a-4fed-be29-a43528249057`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).