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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing continued investment in the life sciences industry in the Commonwealth"
description: "An Act providing continued investment in the life sciences industry in the Commonwealth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4501"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4501 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-05-16"
last_action: "2018-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/618a544c-f8c3-42e3-bfa2-6aceab1002e0"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4501"
source_hash: "8e3b7d81014fcc6d4cf67de5d1c3a590f08dbd189b1f6ec873474b8dd6b32915"
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 4501 (190th) — An Act providing continued investment in the life sciences industry in the Commonwealth
## 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/H4501.pdf)
## Sponsors
- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-05-16** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2018-05-16** Pending new draft of H4432
- **2018-05-16** New draft of H4432
- **2018-05-16** Ordered to a third reading
- **2018-05-16** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-16** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-05-16** Amendment 4 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-05-16** Amendment 14 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-05-16** Passed to be engrossed - 149 YEAS to 3 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 349) `passage`
- **2018-05-24** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-29** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2531 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-31** Read second `reading-2`
- **2018-05-31** For Senate action, see S2531
- **2018-05-31** Amendment by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2531, amended
- **2018-05-31** Ordered to a third reading
- **2018-05-31** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-05-31** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #412 (Yeas 33 to Nays 4) `passage`
- **2018-06-06** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-06** House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of House document 4572
- **2018-06-06** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-06** Senate concurred in the further House amendment
- **2018-06-06** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-06-06** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-06-06** Enacted - 145 YEAS to 3 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 368) `passage`
- **2018-06-07** Enacted -see Roll Call #415 (Yeas 33 to Nays 5) `passage`
- **2018-06-07** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-06-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 112 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/618a544c-f8c3-42e3-bfa2-6aceab1002e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).