---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act extending simulcasting and horse racing authorization"
description: "An Act extending simulcasting and horse racing authorization"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4817"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4817 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-06-29"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e079735-3bd7-4f9b-942c-9bfdc09045fb"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4817"
source_hash: "e149a5a974f6e2c59ba833d71734e1f7c36cfbcb382d5afa674f2f83cc20efe4"
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 4817 (191st) — An Act extending simulcasting and horse racing authorization

## 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/191/H4817.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-29** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2020-06-29** Reported on a part of H4354
- **2020-06-29** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-06-29** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-06-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-06-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-06-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-06-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 106 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e079735-3bd7-4f9b-942c-9bfdc09045fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).