republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/190th/h-1110.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing regional commissions on the status of women and girls"
description: "By Mrs. Poirier of North Attleborough, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1110) of Elizabeth A. Poirier and others for legislation to establish an eastern regional commission on the status of women and girls. Municipalities and Regional Government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 1110"
citation: "Massachusetts H 1110 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth A. Poirier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb87bc9c-18bf-4b64-b720-1cc6fc21825f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H1110"
source_hash: "63cf348db40ad4928d1095c9f00a2297c90f3b2ce4ae0e5bf4780085f5dcedae"
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 1110 (190th) — An Act establishing regional commissions on the status of women and girls

By Mrs. Poirier of North Attleborough, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1110) of Elizabeth A. Poirier and others for legislation to establish an eastern regional commission on the status of women and girls. Municipalities and Regional Government.

## 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/190/H1110.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Elizabeth A. Poirier — primary (person)
- Aaron Vega — cosponsor (person)
- Anne M. Gobi — cosponsor (person)
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
- Carolyn C. Dykema — cosponsor (person)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel J. Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- David K. Muradian, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- David Paul Linsky — cosponsor (person)
- David T. Vieira — cosponsor (person)
- Dylan Fernandes — cosponsor (person)
- Gailanne M. Cariddi — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- James J. Dwyer — cosponsor (person)
- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jay R. Kaufman — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer E. Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)
- Joan Meschino — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Lawn, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Juana B. Matias — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Hogan — cosponsor (person)
- Keiko M. Orrall — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth I. Gordon — cosponsor (person)
- Lori A. Ehrlich — cosponsor (person)
- Marc T. Lombardo — cosponsor (person)
- Mark J. Cusack — cosponsor (person)
- Mathew Muratore — cosponsor (person)
- Michael S. Day — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Paul A. Schmid, III — cosponsor (person)
- Paul Brodeur — cosponsor (person)
- Paul Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Richard J. Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth B. Balser — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah K. Peake — cosponsor (person)
- Solomon Goldstein-Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Ultrino — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Williams Gifford — cosponsor (person)
- Tricia Farley-Bouvier — cosponsor (person)
- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Senate concurred
- **2017-05-19** Hearing scheduled for 05/30/2017 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in B-1
- **2017-06-01** Accompanied by S1119
- **2017-06-01** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-10-25** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-10-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-10-25** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-25** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-25** Read third (title changed) and amended `reading-3`
- **2017-10-25** Passed to be engrossed - 152 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 274) `passage`
- **2017-11-02** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee recommended out to pas with an amendment
- **2018-01-25** Rules suspneded
- **2018-01-25** Read second, amended (as recommend by the committee on Ways and Means) and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-01-25** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #320 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2018-01-29** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** House concurred in the Senate amendments
- **2018-03-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-03-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 45 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb87bc9c-18bf-4b64-b720-1cc6fc21825f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).