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Bill	An Act to further define standards of employee safety	Senate bill No. 2167, as amended by the Senate, as changed by the Senate committee on Bills in the Third Reading, and as passed to be engrossed by the Senate on October 4, 2017.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	H 3952	Massachusetts H 3952 (190th)	bill		enacted		1	29	0	2017-10-11	2018-03-09	openstates	ocd-bill/57e244c5-61c2-4088-8455-36d1b9da240c	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3952	c1324f9cf92b9c8257746ac71643d0ecb5c41501535bbd54f2a007a2ea87db8e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3952 (190th) — An Act to further define standards of employee safety

Senate bill No. 2167, as amended by the Senate, as changed by the Senate committee on Bills in the Third Reading, and as passed to be engrossed by the Senate on October 4, 2017.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• NONE — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-10-11 S2167, published as amended
• 2017-10-11 Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2017-10-25 Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-10-25 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment (H3974) pending
• 2017-10-25 Rules suspended
• 2017-10-25 Read second, amended by substitution of a new text (H3974) and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2017-10-25 Rules suspended
• 2017-10-25 Read third reading-3
• 2017-10-25 Amendment 2 adopted amendment-passage
• 2017-10-25 Amendment 8 adopted, as changed amendment-passage
• 2017-10-25 Passed to be engrossed - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 273) passage
• 2017-10-26 Motion to reconsider prevailed
• 2017-10-26 Motion to reconsider Amendment 2 (see H3974) prevailed
• 2017-10-26 Amendment 2 pending amendment-deferral
• 2017-10-26 Further amendment adopted amendment-passage
• 2017-10-26 Amendment 2 adopted, as amended amendment-passage
• 2017-10-26 Passed to be engrossed passage
• 2018-01-18 Received from the Senate (see S2167 for Senate actions) with the endorsement that said branch had (on 1/16/18) suspended the rules and concurred in the House amendment with a further amendment substituting a new text, see S2250
• 2018-01-18 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2018-02-20 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2018-02-20 Put upon its final passage
• 2018-02-20 Rules suspended
• 2018-02-20 Amendment adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-02-22 Rules suspended
• 2018-02-22 Senate concurred in the further House amendment
• 2018-02-22 Enacted passage
• 2018-03-01 Enacted -see Roll Call #327 (Yeas 36 to Nays 0) passage
• 2018-03-01 Laid before the Governor
• 2018-03-09 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 44 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57e244c5-61c2-4088-8455-36d1b9da240c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).