republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4919.md

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

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 to increase kennel safety, aka Ollie's Law	An Act to increase kennel safety, aka Ollie's Law	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4919	Massachusetts H 4919 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	17	0	2024-07-25	2024-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/88dafec6-a1d8-4186-b28e-1e7a4fb9d2e1	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4919	61ef851636c90b81bbb55cb8decdd4ff4b7686b9901da8668d79d5de5290d601	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4919 (193rd) — An Act to increase kennel safety, aka Ollie's Law

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)
• Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
• Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
• Adrianne Pusateri Ramos — cosponsor (person)
• Andres X. Vargas — cosponsor (person)
• Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
• Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce J. Ayers — cosponsor (person)
• Carmine Lawrence Gentile — cosponsor (person)
• Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher Richard Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
• Danielle W. Gregoire — cosponsor (person)
• Danillo A. Sena — cosponsor (person)
• Denise C. Garlick — cosponsor (person)
• F. Jay Barrows — cosponsor (person)
• Gerard J. Cassidy — cosponsor (person)
• Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
• Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)
• James C. Arena-DeRosa — cosponsor (person)
• James K. Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer Balinsky Armini — cosponsor (person)
• John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph W. McGonagle, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Josh S. Cutler — cosponsor (person)
• Kate Donaghue — cosponsor (person)
• Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
• Kristin E. Kassner — cosponsor (person)
• Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret R. Scarsdale — cosponsor (person)
• Marjorie C. Decker — cosponsor (person)
• Mark C. Montigny — 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)
• Patricia A. Haddad — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)
• Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
• Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)
• Richard M. Haggerty — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney M. Elliott — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth B. Balser — cosponsor (person)
• Sal N. DiDomenico — cosponsor (person)
• Samantha Montaño — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)
• Simon Cataldo — cosponsor (person)
• Steven George Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Owens — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas P. Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)
• Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
• Vanna Howard — cosponsor (person)
• William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)
• William F. MacGregor — 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 H4564
• 2024-07-25 New draft of H4564
• 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. 146 ) 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 reading-3
• 2024-07-31 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2929 amendment-passage
• 2024-07-31 Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call # 228 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) passage
• 2024-07-31 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-09-12 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-09-12 Enacted passage
• 2024-09-12 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-09-20 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 213 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/88dafec6-a1d8-4186-b28e-1e7a4fb9d2e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).