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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to further define standards of employee safety"
description: "Senate bill No. 2167, as amended by the Senate, as changed by the Senate committee on Bills in the Third Reading, and as passed to be engrossed by the Senate on October 4, 2017."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3952"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3952 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-10-11"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57e244c5-61c2-4088-8455-36d1b9da240c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3952"
source_hash: "c1324f9cf92b9c8257746ac71643d0ecb5c41501535bbd54f2a007a2ea87db8e"
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 3952 (190th) — An Act to further define standards of employee safety
Senate bill No. 2167, as amended by the Senate, as changed by the Senate committee on Bills in the Third Reading, and as passed to be engrossed by the Senate on October 4, 2017.
## 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/H3952.pdf)
## Sponsors
- NONE — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-10-11** S2167, published as amended
- **2017-10-11** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-25** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment 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 with the amendment (H3974) pending
- **2017-10-25** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-25** Read second, amended by substitution of a new text (H3974) and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-25** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-25** Read third `reading-3`
- **2017-10-25** Amendment 2 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-10-25** Amendment 8 adopted, as changed `amendment-passage`
- **2017-10-25** Passed to be engrossed - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 273) `passage`
- **2017-10-26** Motion to reconsider prevailed
- **2017-10-26** Motion to reconsider Amendment 2 (see H3974) prevailed
- **2017-10-26** Amendment 2 pending `amendment-deferral`
- **2017-10-26** Further amendment adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-10-26** Amendment 2 adopted, as amended `amendment-passage`
- **2017-10-26** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2018-01-18** Received from the Senate (see S2167 for Senate actions) with the endorsement that said branch had (on 1/16/18) suspended the rules and concurred in the House amendment with a further amendment substituting a new text, see S2250
- **2018-01-18** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2018-02-20** Put upon its final passage
- **2018-02-20** Rules suspended
- **2018-02-20** Amendment adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Rules suspended
- **2018-02-22** Senate concurred in the further House amendment
- **2018-02-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-03-01** Enacted -see Roll Call #327 (Yeas 36 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2018-03-01** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-03-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 44 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/57e244c5-61c2-4088-8455-36d1b9da240c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).