---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to creditable service for Abby Levin, a member of the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement System"
description: "An Act relative to creditable service for Abby Levin, a member of the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement System"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4168"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4168 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-11-08"
last_action: "2023-12-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/064105f2-81c1-4636-9d0f-626d9c0392dd"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4168"
source_hash: "eb72d436bcb0cfc67e9792f07071f3620c12dd8ed84e500b85812c520cca44a6"
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 4168 (193rd) — An Act relative to creditable service for Abby Levin, a member of the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement System

## 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/H4168.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Kenneth I. Gordon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-08** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2023-11-08** Pending new draft of H3888
- **2023-11-08** New draft of H3888
- **2023-11-08** Ordered to a third reading
- **2023-11-08** Rules suspended
- **2023-11-08** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-11-09** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-29** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-11-29** Rules suspended
- **2023-11-29** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-12-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-12-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-12-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-12-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-12-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 83 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/064105f2-81c1-4636-9d0f-626d9c0392dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).