---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act criminalizing sexual assault by fraud of a medical professional"
description: "An Act criminalizing sexual assault by fraud of a medical professional"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4350"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4350 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-02-12"
last_action: "2024-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ba933a8-7f63-4de2-8381-c9cd80984357"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4350"
source_hash: "cede17f56827ab256cc3d92d554f6de5b58c93ddad48fa393791036e4e738292"
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 4350 (193rd) — An Act criminalizing sexual assault by fraud of a medical professional

## 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/H4350.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on the Judiciary — primary (organization)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Hogan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-12** Reported from the committee on The Judiciary
- **2024-02-12** New draft of S1122 and H1550
- **2024-02-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-03-11** Rules suspended
- **2024-03-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-06-27** Rules suspended
- **2024-06-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-06-27** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-29** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2905 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-29** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-29** Read second `reading-2`
- **2024-07-29** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2905 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-07-29** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-07-29** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-30** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-30** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-08-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 167 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ba933a8-7f63-4de2-8381-c9cd80984357`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).