republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/190th/h-4834.md

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Bill	An Act automatically registering eligible voters and enhancing safeguards against fraud	The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches with reference to the Senate amendments of the House Bill automatically registering eligible voters and enhancing safeguards against fraud (House, No. 4671), reports recommending passage of the accompanying bill (House, No. 4834).	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	H 4834	Massachusetts H 4834 (190th)	bill		enacted	Voter Registration and Fraud	1	13	0	2018-07-26	2018-08-09	openstates	ocd-bill/35c95fa6-f5ab-4280-91ab-b29299ceb76a	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4834	8b301e51fb9928daa8d6146ef39a386257094a8ad1be3bda8205d07d4f3f81a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4834 (190th) — An Act automatically registering eligible voters and enhancing safeguards against fraud

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches with reference to the Senate amendments of the House Bill automatically registering eligible voters and enhancing safeguards against fraud (House, No. 4671), reports recommending passage of the accompanying bill (House, No. 4834).

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Voter Registration and Fraud — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-07-26 Reported from the committee of conference
• 2018-07-26 Reported on H4671
• 2018-07-26 Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee
• 2018-07-26 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting, the question being on acceptance
• 2018-07-27 Rules suspended
• 2018-07-27 Committee of conference report accepted - 134 YEAS to 16 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 424)
• 2018-07-30 Rules suspended
• 2018-07-30 Committee of conference report accepted, in concurrence -see Roll Call #486 (Yeas 36 to Nays 0)
• 2018-07-30 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2018-07-30 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2018-07-30 Enacted passage
• 2018-07-30 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2018-08-09 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 205 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/35c95fa6-f5ab-4280-91ab-b29299ceb76a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).