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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act modernizing the commonwealths cannabis laws"
description: "The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches with reference to the Senate amendment of the House Bill modernizing the Commonwealths cannabis laws (House, No. 4206), reports, recommending passage of the accompanying bill (House, No. 5350)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 5350"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5350 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2026-04-06"
last_action: "2026-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6363db45-5fee-428d-9e72-7a9411ac6175"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5350"
source_hash: "fa0ea3e1f98351c146329b82abf57a295fe96e8f7bf926a6813f62991dbc2157"
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 5350 (194th) — An Act modernizing the commonwealths cannabis laws
The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches with reference to the Senate amendment of the House Bill modernizing the Commonwealths cannabis laws (House, No. 4206), reports, recommending passage of the accompanying bill (House, No. 5350).
## 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/194/H5350.pdf)
## Votes
- H. 5350 On acceptance of the conference report — **1550** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Cannabis Laws — primary (organization)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Chynah Tyler — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel Cahill — cosponsor (person)
- David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Dawne Shand — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)
- John C. Velis — cosponsor (person)
- Manny Cruz — cosponsor (person)
- Mark J. Cusack — cosponsor (person)
- Meghan K. Kilcoyne — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Soter — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Kushmerek — cosponsor (person)
- Samantha Montaño — cosponsor (person)
- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-04-06** Reported from the committee of conference
- **2026-04-06** Reported on H4206
- **2026-04-06** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting, the question being on acceptance
- **2026-04-08** Rules suspended
- **2026-04-08** Committee of conference report accepted - 155 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 151 )
- **2026-04-09** Committee of conference report accepted, in concurrence
- **2026-04-09** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-04-09** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-04-09** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-04-09** Enacted -see Roll Call #146 (Yeas 33 to Nays 6) `passage`
- **2026-04-09** Laid before the Governor
- **2026-04-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 65 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6363db45-5fee-428d-9e72-7a9411ac6175`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).