---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to establishing representative districts in the General Court"
description: "An Act relative to establishing representative districts in the General Court"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4217"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4217 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-10-21"
last_action: "2021-11-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ade382b2-2eea-4a7a-b512-64a7aee67bb6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4217"
source_hash: "f4a89ac86f69ee7d82ab78dc9020c23e998ff3c66b8e65bc0120152c8b1add79"
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 4217 (192nd) — An Act relative to establishing representative districts in the General Court

## 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/H4217.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Special Joint Committee on Redistricting — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-21** H4210, published as amended
- **2021-10-21** Passed to be engrossed - 158 YEAS to 1 NAYS (See YEA and NAY, No. 108) `passage`
- **2021-10-27** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-10-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-10-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-10-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-10-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-11-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 83 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/ade382b2-2eea-4a7a-b512-64a7aee67bb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).