---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to improve the Commonwealth’s competitiveness, affordability, and equity"
description: "An Act to improve the Commonwealth’s competitiveness, affordability, and equity"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4104"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4104 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-09-27"
last_action: "2023-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20c2c243-4ad6-4e76-b873-277f23f7d81c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4104"
source_hash: "8c14c7250a28e9f8cc840c062cd5f6c01dbce8483c1767ffb57203f822835f4e"
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 4104 (193rd) — An Act to improve the Commonwealth’s competitiveness, affordability, and equity

## 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/H4104.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Competitiveness, Affordability and Equity — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-27** Reported from the committee of conference
- **2023-09-27** Reported on a part of H3770
- **2023-09-27** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting, the question being on acceptance
- **2023-09-27** Rules suspended
- **2023-09-27** Committee of conference report accepted - 155 YEAS to 1 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 33 )
- **2023-09-28** Rules suspended
- **2023-09-28** Committee of conference report accepted, in concurrence -see Roll Call #62 (Yeas 38 to Nays 1)
- **2023-09-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-09-28** Motion to suspend Senate Rule 49 negatived -see Roll Call #63 (Yeas 3 to Nays 33)
- **2023-09-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-10-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 50 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/20c2c243-4ad6-4e76-b873-277f23f7d81c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).