---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to extend live horse racing and simulcasting in the Commonwealth"
description: "An Act to extend live horse racing and simulcasting in the Commonwealth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5047"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5047 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-20"
last_action: "2022-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfba4d10-e3af-4129-b11b-d2f50824625f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5047"
source_hash: "f665eb5fad29d1b6ecd8ec1ed26677dc4896aeab23b48b877c4e9534bb72e3ed"
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 5047 (192nd) — An Act to extend live horse racing and simulcasting in the Commonwealth

## 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/H5047.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2022-07-20** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2022-07-20** Pending new draft of H4817
- **2022-07-20** New draft of H4817
- **2022-07-20** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-07-20** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-20** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-28** Read, rules suspended, read second `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-07-28** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3070 `amendment-passage`
- **2022-07-28** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-07-28** Read third `reading-3`
- **2022-07-28** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-07-29** Refererrd to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading
- **2022-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-31** House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment, see House document numbered 5157
- **2022-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-31** Senate concurred in the House further amendment with a still further amendment
- **2022-08-01** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-01** Rules suspended
- **2022-08-01** House concurred in the still further Senate amendment
- **2022-08-01** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-08-01** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-08-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-08-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 128 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/bfba4d10-e3af-4129-b11b-d2f50824625f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).