---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act further regulating the Massachusetts Port Authority community advisory committee"
description: "An Act further regulating the Massachusetts Port Authority community advisory committee"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4088"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4088 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joan Meschino"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-12-21"
last_action: "2018-02-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/accc49a5-eeed-4fe1-ac67-7431899fd1ee"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4088"
source_hash: "64b31c3862d6245a211d605a44cf761ac900355f5115a06c155469d71aab6963"
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 4088 (190th) — An Act further regulating the Massachusetts Port Authority community advisory committee

## 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/190/H4088.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joan Meschino — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-21** Substituted for H3803
- **2017-12-21** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2017-12-26** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-01-25** Rules supended
- **2018-01-25** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-01-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-01-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-02-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 18 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/accc49a5-eeed-4fe1-ac67-7431899fd1ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).