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---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the Affordable Homes Act"
description: "An Act relative to the Affordable Homes Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4977"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4977 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-08-01"
last_action: "2024-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a270a460-1a1c-4a56-93fe-c89445bc378e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4977"
source_hash: "f43266e30c672997b728a709b7a8fe8f49ec728378bf5ceb889aff7fa323c8e4"
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 4977 (193rd) — An Act relative to the Affordable Homes Act
## 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/193/H4977.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Affordable Homes Act — primary (organization)
- Maura T. Healey — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-08-01** Reported from the committee of conference
- **2024-08-01** Reported on H4726
- **2024-08-01** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-01** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting, the question being on acceptance
- **2024-08-01** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-01** Committee of conference report accepted
- **2024-08-01** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-01** Committee of conference report accepted, in concurrence
- **2024-08-01** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-08-01** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-08-01** Enacted - 128 YEAS to 24 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 199 ) `passage`
- **2024-08-01** Enacted -see Roll Call #249 (Yeas 37 to Nays 2) `passage`
- **2024-08-01** Laid before the Governor
- **2024-08-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 150 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a270a460-1a1c-4a56-93fe-c89445bc378e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).