---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to simulcasting and racing."
description: "An Act relative to simulcasting and racing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4809"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4809 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-25"
last_action: "2018-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3eba6cfd-bd6c-4ee8-9c6c-0ab5bc71093b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4809"
source_hash: "ed7cc89b82d6760e77f4318d38636e70669d2f633ab972f587b8f136f8bf1451"
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 4809 (190th) — An Act relative to simulcasting and racing.

## 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/190/H4809.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-07-25** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2018-07-25** Pending new draft of H1978
- **2018-07-25** New draft of H1978
- **2018-07-25** Ordered to a third reading
- **2018-07-25** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-31** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-08-02** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-08-02** Eancted
- **2018-08-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 159 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3eba6cfd-bd6c-4ee8-9c6c-0ab5bc71093b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).