---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing Congressional districts"
description: "An Act establishing Congressional districts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4256"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4256 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Special Joint Committee on Redistricting"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-11-16"
last_action: "2021-11-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5afef000-6c3c-4bb9-ac64-7b92dc287985"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4256"
source_hash: "d87084a38f431da0999e859be3bd6ac745fc50f0cd3880bca036f38e3e7521b1"
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 4256 (192nd) — An Act establishing Congressional districts

## 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/H4256.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Special Joint Committee on Redistricting — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-16** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-11-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-11-16** Rules suspended
- **2021-11-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-11-17** Rules suspended
- **2021-11-17** Read third `reading-3`
- **2021-11-17** Amendment 1 rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2021-11-17** Amendment 2 rejected - 29 YEAS to 130 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 118 ) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-11-17** Passed to be engrossed - 151 YEAS to 8 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 119 ) `passage`
- **2021-11-17** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-11-17** Read third `reading-3`
- **2021-11-17** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #111 (Yeas 26 to Nays 13) `passage`
- **2021-11-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-11-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-11-17** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-11-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-11-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 93 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/5afef000-6c3c-4bb9-ac64-7b92dc287985`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).