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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the cremation of certain unclaimed bodies"
description: "Section 38 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2019 (see House, No. 4800), which had been returned by His Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message, see Attachment D of House, No. 4833). July 27, 2018."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4822"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4822 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-26"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24cb0ad7-0636-4182-a610-46cb99a48140"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4822"
source_hash: "ef15688a71e2ea7cfa05a57f7b79e56d9879e5cbbba4f4b3c0b3bef285129e84"
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 4822 (190th) — An Act relative to the cremation of certain unclaimed bodies
Section 38 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2019 (see House, No. 4800), which had been returned by His Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message, see Attachment D of House, No. 4833). July 27, 2018.
## 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/H4822.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-07-26** Enacted as section 38 of the General Appropriation Bill, see H4800 `passage`
- **2018-07-26** Governor returned to the House with recommendation of amendment
- **2018-07-26** For message, see H4833, Attachment D
- **2018-07-27** Referred to the committee on House Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-31** Bills in the Third Reading special report accepted
- **2018-07-31** Governors amendment adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-31** Governors amendment adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-31** Re-enacted
- **2018-07-31** Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 203 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/24cb0ad7-0636-4182-a610-46cb99a48140`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).