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Bill	An Act relative to minimum wage, paid family medical leave and the sales tax holiday	An Act relative to minimum wage, paid family medical leave and the sales tax holiday	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	H 4640	Massachusetts H 4640 (190th)	bill		enacted	House Committee on Ways and Means	1	31	0	2018-06-20	2018-06-28	openstates	ocd-bill/2f35a08d-b90a-4a20-953b-60426236ab32	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4640	f74f4656c33c1be0f8354fccd70dfa759d73b9310b58de6039667182ffd1d2ad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4640 (190th) — An Act relative to minimum wage, paid family medical leave and the sales tax holiday

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2018-06-20 Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
• 2018-06-20 New draft of S1004, H1042, H1544, H1595, H2172 and H2365
• 2018-06-20 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-06-20 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2018-06-20 Rules suspended
• 2018-06-20 Read second reading-2
• 2018-06-20 Ordered to a third reading - 114 YEAS to 37 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 377)
• 2018-06-20 Rules suspended
• 2018-06-20 Read third reading-3
• 2018-06-20 Amendment 1 pending amendment-deferral
• 2018-06-20 Laid aside on a point of order
• 2018-06-20 Decision of Chair stands - 116 YEAS to 34 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 378)
• 2018-06-20 Amendment 2 pending amendment-deferral
• 2018-06-20 Laid aside on a point of order
• 2018-06-20 Decision of Chair stands - 115 YEAS to 35 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 379)
• 2018-06-20 Amendment 3 rejected - 35 YEAS to 116 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 380) amendment-failure
• 2018-06-20 Amendment 4 rejected amendment-failure
• 2018-06-20 Amendment 5 adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-06-20 Passed to be engrossed - 126 YEAS to 25 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 381) passage
• 2018-06-20 Motion to reconsider negatived
• 2018-06-20 Read
• 2018-06-20 Rules suspended
• 2018-06-20 Read second reading-2
• 2018-06-20 Amendment #1 (Jehlen) rejected amendment-failure
• 2018-06-20 Ordered to a third reading
• 2018-06-20 Read third reading-3
• 2018-06-20 Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #426 (Yeas 30 to Nays 0) passage
• 2018-06-20 Enacted - 119 YEAS to 34 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 382) passage
• 2018-06-20 Enacted passage
• 2018-06-21 Laid before the Governor
• 2018-06-28 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 121 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2f35a08d-b90a-4a20-953b-60426236ab32. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).