---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to disability pensions and critical incident stress management for violent crimes"
description: "An Act relative to disability pensions and critical incident stress management for violent crimes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4746"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4746 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-06-12"
last_action: "2024-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28881fbb-bfbf-4cb4-b75d-5fec35e626f9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4746"
source_hash: "e3f6519c862bccb7867cb444f151c1149620469f544dc85baaf6f3577828b91f"
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 4746 (193rd) — An Act relative to disability pensions and critical incident stress management for violent crimes

## 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/H4746.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Alan Silvia — cosponsor (person)
- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
- James C. Arena-DeRosa — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey Rosario Turco — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Ann Giannino — cosponsor (person)
- Lydia Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus S. Vaughn — cosponsor (person)
- Mathew J. Muratore — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Soter — cosponsor (person)
- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
- Steven George Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-12** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2024-06-12** Pending new draft of H4626
- **2024-06-12** New draft of H4626
- **2024-06-12** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-06-12** Rules suspended
- **2024-06-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-06-17** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-22** Accompanied by S1680
- **2024-07-22** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2887 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-22** Order relative to subject matter adopted
- **2024-07-22** Placed in the Orders of the Day for Wednesday, July 24, 2024
- **2024-07-24** Read second `reading-2`
- **2024-07-24** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2887 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-07-24** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-07-24** Read third `reading-3`
- **2024-07-24** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #216 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2024-07-25** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-25** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-25** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-07-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-07-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 149 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28881fbb-bfbf-4cb4-b75d-5fec35e626f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).