---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to Yarmouth tourism funding change"
description: "By Representative Flanagan of Dennis and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3796) of Christopher Richard Flanagan, Julian Cyr and others (by vote of the town) relative to authorizing the town of Yarmouth to establish a tourism revenue preservation fund. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3796"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3796 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-04-20"
last_action: "2023-10-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/486f5173-887e-4508-b835-faac0b12b4f8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3796"
source_hash: "cd3b9eda350a20e7c6b9d4ba896e11d620f9521dba1b7f079a5727d2e8904f77"
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 3796 (193rd) — An Act relative to Yarmouth tourism funding change

By Representative Flanagan of Dennis and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3796) of Christopher Richard Flanagan, Julian Cyr and others (by vote of the town) relative to authorizing the town of Yarmouth to establish a tourism revenue preservation fund. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/H3796.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Richard Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
- Kip A. Diggs — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-20** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-20** Senate concurred
- **2023-06-20** Hearing scheduled for 06/22/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2023-07-03** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2023-07-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-09-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-14** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2023-10-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-10-16** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-10-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-10-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-10-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 59 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/486f5173-887e-4508-b835-faac0b12b4f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).