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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act automatically registering eligible voters and enhancing safeguards against fraud"
description: "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)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4834"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4834 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Voter Registration and Fraud"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-26"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35c95fa6-f5ab-4280-91ab-b29299ceb76a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4834"
source_hash: "8b301e51fb9928daa8d6146ef39a386257094a8ad1be3bda8205d07d4f3f81a7"
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 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4834.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35c95fa6-f5ab-4280-91ab-b29299ceb76a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).