---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to animal welfare and reporting of animal cruelty, abuse or neglect"
description: "An Act relative to animal welfare and reporting of animal cruelty, abuse or neglect"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4911"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4911 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-25"
last_action: "2024-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/daafb319-40e8-48fe-9964-7b910b605945"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4911"
source_hash: "e9a87d671ffecac4aad309ccce28adbb643214bba4c535dd20a0f621320b792c"
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 4911 (193rd) — An Act relative to animal welfare and reporting of animal cruelty, abuse or neglect

## 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/H4911.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce J. Ayers — cosponsor (person)
- David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf — cosponsor (person)
- Edward R. Philips — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- James C. Arena-DeRosa — cosponsor (person)
- James K. Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Michael O. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle M. DuBois — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)
- Samantha Montaño — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Vanna Howard — cosponsor (person)
- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-07-25** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2024-07-25** Pending new draft of H198
- **2024-07-25** New draft of H198
- **2024-07-25** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-07-25** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-25** Read third `reading-3`
- **2024-07-25** Passed to be engrossed - 159 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 143 ) `passage`
- **2024-07-29** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-09-26** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-09-26** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-09-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-09-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-10-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 222 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/daafb319-40e8-48fe-9964-7b910b605945`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).