---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act extending simulcasting and horse racing authorization"
description: "An Act extending simulcasting and horse racing authorization"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3976"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3976 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-07-21"
last_action: "2021-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab39e388-d3bd-48b0-a2e5-42768a2b6ad9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3976"
source_hash: "5848f787c667cc5d07dc0009893a592fa7c447b4f33331acb58ecd93fd5870c9"
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 3976 (192nd) — An Act extending simulcasting and horse racing authorization

## 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/H3976.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — cosponsor (person)
- Tackey Chan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-07-21** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2021-07-21** Pending new draft of H3912
- **2021-07-21** New draft of H3912
- **2021-07-21** Ordered to a third reading
- **2021-07-21** Rules suspended
- **2021-07-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-07-22** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-07-26** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-07-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-07-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-07-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-07-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-07-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-07-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 27 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/ab39e388-d3bd-48b0-a2e5-42768a2b6ad9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).