---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act extending COVID-19 Massachusetts emergency paid sick leave"
description: "An Act extending COVID-19 Massachusetts emergency paid sick leave"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4127"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4127 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-09-27"
last_action: "2021-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35f1fb04-ff7d-4338-ad8d-b9747f2dde1c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4127"
source_hash: "128b1fa1f9683c308a36a7a70b7677523493a77b06cccd23aec93d0a97fe9bdc"
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 4127 (192nd) — An Act extending COVID-19 Massachusetts emergency paid sick leave

## 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/H4127.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-27** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2021-09-27** Reported on a part of H4078
- **2021-09-27** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-09-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-09-27** Rules suspended
- **2021-09-27** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-09-27** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-09-27** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-09-27** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-09-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-09-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-09-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 55 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/35f1fb04-ff7d-4338-ad8d-b9747f2dde1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).