---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act honoring, empowering, and recognizing our servicemembers and veterans"
description: "An Act honoring, empowering, and recognizing our servicemembers and veterans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4976"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4976 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-08-01"
last_action: "2024-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/275795e6-a893-4071-b63e-3c3172004ed2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4976"
source_hash: "02c041c3249fc6161f721f492d5cdbe658e97a171cdfd6f27e8c4c21d5286371"
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 4976 (193rd) — An Act honoring, empowering, and recognizing our servicemembers and veterans

## 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/H4976.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Servicemen and Veterans — primary (organization)
- Maura T. Healey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-08-01** Reported from the committee of conference
- **2024-08-01** Reported on H4671
- **2024-08-01** Includes signed errata sheet
- **2024-08-01** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-01** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting, the question being on acceptance
- **2024-08-01** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-01** Committee of conference report accepted
- **2024-08-01** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-01** Committee of conference report accepted, in concurrence
- **2024-08-01** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-08-01** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-08-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-08-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-08-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 178 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/275795e6-a893-4071-b63e-3c3172004ed2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).