---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the creation of a women's rights history trail"
description: "An Act relative to the creation of a women's rights history trail"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4555"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4555 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-03-17"
last_action: "2022-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ebc999b-e798-4a7e-862a-92c6501ccb27"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4555"
source_hash: "99a32edfef5d80c7016698b8017dc57d06b16fecf6649a4012cd37ce7725cc37"
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 4555 (192nd) — An Act relative to the creation of a women's rights history trail

## 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/H4555.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
- Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
- Alyson M. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Bud L. Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
- Carolyn C. Dykema — cosponsor (person)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel R. Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Danielle W. Gregoire — cosponsor (person)
- Danillo A. Sena — cosponsor (person)
- David Allen Robertson — cosponsor (person)
- Diana DiZoglio — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- James M. Kelcourse — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Ann Giannino — cosponsor (person)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin G. Honan — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Liz Miranda — cosponsor (person)
- Marcos A. Devers — cosponsor (person)
- Maria Duaime Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Mary S. Keefe — cosponsor (person)
- Mathew J. Muratore — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Soter — cosponsor (person)
- Michael S. Day — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle L. Ciccolo — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Nika C. Elugardo — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia A. Duffy — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia A. Haddad — cosponsor (person)
- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
- Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)
- Richard M. Haggerty — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah K. Peake — cosponsor (person)
- Steven G. Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Williams Gifford — cosponsor (person)
- Tami L. Gouveia — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy R. Whelan — cosponsor (person)
- Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Tricia Farley-Bouvier — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-17** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2022-03-17** Pending new draft of H3379
- **2022-03-17** New draft of H3379
- **2022-03-17** Ordered to a third reading, rules suspended and read third `reading-3`
- **2022-03-17** Passed to be engrossed - 154 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 158 ) `passage`
- **2022-03-24** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-31** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2802 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-31** Order relative to subject matter adopted
- **2022-03-31** Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, April 7, 2022
- **2022-04-07** Read second `reading-2`
- **2022-04-07** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2802 `amendment-passage`
- **2022-04-07** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-04-07** Read third `reading-3`
- **2022-04-07** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #142 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** Rules suspended
- **2022-05-19** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2022-05-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-05-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-05-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 76 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ebc999b-e798-4a7e-862a-92c6501ccb27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).