---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the use of elephants, big cats, primates, giraffes and bears in traveling exhibits and shows"
description: "An Act relative to the use of elephants, big cats, primates, giraffes and bears in traveling exhibits and shows"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4915"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4915 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-25"
last_action: "2024-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc3c9325-9ac1-401b-ac91-dc578cbe27ce"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4915"
source_hash: "b2a02534c244be0adb8736dd24f4e56ce2f3daaaba43a310dcf04c205cbc9174"
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 4915 (193rd) — An Act relative to the use of elephants, big cats, primates, giraffes and bears in traveling exhibits and shows

## 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/H4915.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Aaron L. Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
- Adrianne Pusateri Ramos — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo L. D'Emilia — cosponsor (person)
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Carmine Lawrence Gentile — cosponsor (person)
- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel J. Ryan — cosponsor (person)
- David Allen Robertson — cosponsor (person)
- David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)
- David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf — cosponsor (person)
- David Paul Linsky — cosponsor (person)
- David T. Vieira — cosponsor (person)
- Denise C. Garlick — cosponsor (person)
- Estela A. Reyes — cosponsor (person)
- F. Jay Barrows — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- James Arciero — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- James C. Arena-DeRosa — cosponsor (person)
- James K. Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Jay D. Livingstone — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Balinsky Armini — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Ann Giannino — cosponsor (person)
- Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)
- John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
- Josh S. Cutler — cosponsor (person)
- Judith A. Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Donaghue — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin G. Honan — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Kristin E. Kassner — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus S. Vaughn — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret R. Scarsdale — cosponsor (person)
- Marjorie C. Decker — cosponsor (person)
- Mark J. Cusack — cosponsor (person)
- Mathew J. Muratore — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Kushmerek — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle M. DuBois — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia A. Duffy — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Joseph Kearney — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)
- Paul A. Schmid III — cosponsor (person)
- Paul J. Donato — cosponsor (person)
- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)
- Rob Consalvo — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney M. Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth B. Balser — cosponsor (person)
- Samantha Montaño — cosponsor (person)
- Simon Cataldo — cosponsor (person)
- Smitty Pignatelli — cosponsor (person)
- Steven George Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Tackey Chan — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
- Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Tricia Farley-Bouvier — cosponsor (person)
- Vanna Howard — cosponsor (person)
- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Driscoll, Jr. — 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 H3245
- **2024-07-25** New draft of H3245
- **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 - 157 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 144 ) `passage`
- **2024-07-29** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-07-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-07-31** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-08-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 168 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/cc3c9325-9ac1-401b-ac91-dc578cbe27ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).