---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act clarifying the application of judicial retirement law"
description: "An Act clarifying the application of judicial retirement law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4082"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4082 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-09-07"
last_action: "2023-10-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/560d1d72-7737-4fec-8a4a-cdc038473558"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4082"
source_hash: "74777a3bbf384d06d9a52f0816c6c964e281aa670f65b2595823bc8d28857fb2"
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 4082 (193rd) — An Act clarifying the application of judicial retirement law

## 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/193/H4082.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Joint Committee on Public Service — cosponsor (person)
- Tackey Chan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-07** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2023-09-07** Pending new draft of H3978
- **2023-09-07** New draft of H3978
- **2023-09-07** Ordered to a third reading
- **2023-09-07** Rules suspended
- **2023-09-07** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-07** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-10-02** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-10-02** Rules suspended
- **2023-10-02** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-10-04** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2023-10-04** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2023-10-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-10-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-10-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-10-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-10-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 57 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/560d1d72-7737-4fec-8a4a-cdc038473558`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).