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| Bill | An Act relative to the use of elephants, big cats, primates, giraffes and bears in traveling exhibits and shows | An Act relative to the use of elephants, big cats, primates, giraffes and bears in traveling exhibits and shows | us/states/ma | Massachusetts General Court | 193rd | H 4915 | Massachusetts H 4915 (193rd) |
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enacted | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2024-07-25 | 2024-08-08 | openstates | ocd-bill/cc3c9325-9ac1-401b-ac91-dc578cbe27ce | https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4915 | b2a02534c244be0adb8736dd24f4e56ce2f3daaaba43a310dcf04c205cbc9174 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Massachusetts H 4915 (193rd) — An Act relative to the use of elephants, big cats, primates, giraffes and bears in traveling exhibits and shows
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Sponsors
- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Aaron L. Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
- Adrianne Pusateri Ramos — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo L. D'Emilia — cosponsor (person)
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Carmine Lawrence Gentile — cosponsor (person)
- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel J. Ryan — cosponsor (person)
- David Allen Robertson — cosponsor (person)
- David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)
- David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf — cosponsor (person)
- David Paul Linsky — cosponsor (person)
- David T. Vieira — cosponsor (person)
- Denise C. Garlick — cosponsor (person)
- Estela A. Reyes — cosponsor (person)
- F. Jay Barrows — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- James Arciero — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- James C. Arena-DeRosa — cosponsor (person)
- James K. Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Jay D. Livingstone — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Balinsky Armini — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Ann Giannino — cosponsor (person)
- Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)
- John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
- Josh S. Cutler — cosponsor (person)
- Judith A. Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Donaghue — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin G. Honan — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Kristin E. Kassner — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus S. Vaughn — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret R. Scarsdale — cosponsor (person)
- Marjorie C. Decker — cosponsor (person)
- Mark J. Cusack — cosponsor (person)
- Mathew J. Muratore — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Kushmerek — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle M. DuBois — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia A. Duffy — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick Joseph Kearney — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)
- Paul A. Schmid III — cosponsor (person)
- Paul J. Donato — cosponsor (person)
- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)
- Rob Consalvo — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney M. Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth B. Balser — cosponsor (person)
- Samantha Montaño — cosponsor (person)
- Simon Cataldo — cosponsor (person)
- Smitty Pignatelli — cosponsor (person)
- Steven George Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Tackey Chan — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
- Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Tricia Farley-Bouvier — cosponsor (person)
- Vanna Howard — cosponsor (person)
- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Driscoll, Jr. — 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 H3245
- 2024-07-25 New draft of H3245
- 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 - 157 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 144 )
passage - 2024-07-29 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading
reading-1, reading-2 - 2024-07-31 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- 2024-07-31 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed
passage, reading-3 - 2024-07-31 Enacted
passage - 2024-07-31 Enacted and laid before the Governor
passage - 2024-08-08 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 168 of the Acts of 2024
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cc3c9325-9ac1-401b-ac91-dc578cbe27ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).