---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to Alzheimer’s and related dementias in the Commonwealth"
description: "An Act relative to Alzheimer’s and related dementias in the Commonwealth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4116"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4116 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Elder Affairs"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 30
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/298677dd-c9fe-403a-8896-dc6ca91b3a92"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4116"
source_hash: "e7fb67da9afe2bcafb6d6e005bb7bbc2e3143f259cfd81be9cab6c349f45f362"
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 4116 (190th) — An Act relative to Alzheimer’s and related dementias in the Commonwealth

## 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/H4116.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Elder Affairs — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Reported from the committee on Elder Affairs
- **2018-01-16** New draft of S341, S1224, S1239, S1264, H335, H1200, H1223 and H2884
- **2018-01-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-16** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-29** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-01-29** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-31** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-31** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-01-31** Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-01-31** Passed to be engrossed - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 310) `passage`
- **2018-02-01** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-17** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2612 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-17** Referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, July 19, 2018
- **2018-07-19** Read second `reading-2`
- **2018-07-19** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2612 `amendment-passage`
- **2018-07-19** Ordered to a third reading
- **2018-07-19** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-19** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-07-19** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #455 (Yeas 37 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2018-07-23** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-25** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-25** House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment, see H4817
- **2018-07-26** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-26** Senate concurred in the further House amendment
- **2018-07-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-07-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 220 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/298677dd-c9fe-403a-8896-dc6ca91b3a92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).