---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to increase kennel safety, aka Ollie's Law"
description: "An Act to increase kennel safety, aka Ollie's Law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4919"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4919 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-25"
last_action: "2024-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88dafec6-a1d8-4186-b28e-1e7a4fb9d2e1"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4919"
source_hash: "61ef851636c90b81bbb55cb8decdd4ff4b7686b9901da8668d79d5de5290d601"
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 4919 (193rd) — An Act to increase kennel safety, aka Ollie's 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/H4919.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
- Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
- Adrianne Pusateri Ramos — cosponsor (person)
- Andres X. Vargas — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce J. Ayers — cosponsor (person)
- Carmine Lawrence Gentile — cosponsor (person)
- Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Richard Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Danielle W. Gregoire — cosponsor (person)
- Danillo A. Sena — cosponsor (person)
- Denise C. Garlick — cosponsor (person)
- F. Jay Barrows — cosponsor (person)
- Gerard J. Cassidy — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)
- James C. Arena-DeRosa — cosponsor (person)
- James K. Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Balinsky Armini — cosponsor (person)
- John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph W. McGonagle, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Josh S. Cutler — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Donaghue — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Kristin E. Kassner — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret R. Scarsdale — cosponsor (person)
- Marjorie C. Decker — cosponsor (person)
- Mark C. Montigny — 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)
- Patricia A. Haddad — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)
- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)
- Richard M. Haggerty — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney M. Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth B. Balser — cosponsor (person)
- Sal N. DiDomenico — cosponsor (person)
- Samantha Montaño — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)
- Simon Cataldo — cosponsor (person)
- Steven George Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas P. Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Vanna Howard — cosponsor (person)
- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)
- William F. MacGregor — 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 H4564
- **2024-07-25** New draft of H4564
- **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. 146 ) `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 `reading-3`
- **2024-07-31** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2929 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-07-31** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call # 228 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-09-12** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-09-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-09-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-09-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 213 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/88dafec6-a1d8-4186-b28e-1e7a4fb9d2e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).