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type title description jurisdiction legislature session identifier citation classification subjects status primary_sponsors version_count action_count vote_count first_action last_action source source_identifier source_url source_hash vintage source_snapshot retrieved_at confidence tags
Bill An Act relative to animal welfare and reporting of animal cruelty, abuse or neglect An Act relative to animal welfare and reporting of animal cruelty, abuse or neglect us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 193rd H 4911 Massachusetts H 4911 (193rd)
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Massachusetts H 4911 (193rd) — An Act relative to animal welfare and reporting of animal cruelty, abuse or neglect

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 (organization)
  • Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Bruce J. Ayers — cosponsor (person)
  • David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf — cosponsor (person)
  • Edward R. Philips — cosponsor (person)
  • Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
  • James C. Arena-DeRosa — cosponsor (person)
  • James K. Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
  • John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
  • Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
  • Michael O. Moore — cosponsor (person)
  • Michelle M. DuBois — cosponsor (person)
  • Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
  • Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
  • Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)
  • Samantha Montaño — cosponsor (person)
  • Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
  • Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
  • Vanna Howard — cosponsor (person)
  • William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-07-25 Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
  • 2024-07-25 Pending new draft of H198
  • 2024-07-25 New draft of H198
  • 2024-07-25 Ordered to a third reading
  • 2024-07-25 Rules suspended
  • 2024-07-25 Read third reading-3
  • 2024-07-25 Passed to be engrossed - 159 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 143 ) passage
  • 2024-07-29 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
  • 2024-09-26 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2024-09-26 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2024-09-30 Enacted passage
  • 2024-09-30 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2024-10-09 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 222 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/daafb319-40e8-48fe-9964-7b910b605945. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).