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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act providing for unlimited free phone calls to incarcerated individuals"
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description: "Sections 50, 85 and 111 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2024 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for certain permanent improvements (see House, No. 4040), which had been returned by Her Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message see Attachment E of House, No. 4055). August 9, 2023."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "193rd"
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identifier: "H 4052"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4052 (193rd)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: []
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2023-08-10"
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last_action: "2023-11-15"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/980e7a85-fc7f-46f6-a6b8-78590d8fb7a0"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4052"
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source_hash: "772ff14a319a95d6dead4a017ece01f53c826a85c94ac14675e22a68f0b3d0f4"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
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---
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# Massachusetts H 4052 (193rd) — An Act providing for unlimited free phone calls to incarcerated individuals
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Sections 50, 85 and 111 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2024 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for certain permanent improvements (see House, No. 4040), which had been returned by Her Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message see Attachment E of House, No. 4055). August 9, 2023.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4052.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- NONE — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-08-10** Enacted as sections 50, 85 and 111 of the General Appropriation Bill, see H4040 `passage`
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- **2023-08-10** Governor returned to the House with recommendation of amendment
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- **2023-08-10** For message, see H4055, Attachment E
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- **2023-08-10** Referred to the committee on House Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
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- **2023-09-27** Bills in the Third Reading special report accepted
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- **2023-09-27** Governor's amendment considered (in the form approved by the committee on Bills in the Third Reading)
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- **2023-09-27** Governor's amendment rejected `amendment-failure`
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- **2023-09-27** Amendment adopted `amendment-passage`
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- **2023-10-05** Rules suspended
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- **2023-10-05** Governor's amendment rejected `amendment-failure`
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- **2023-10-05** Senate concurred in the House amendment
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- **2023-10-11** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2023-10-12** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2023-11-08** Re-enacted - 132 YEAS to 26 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 63)
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- **2023-11-09** Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor
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- **2023-11-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 64 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/980e7a85-fc7f-46f6-a6b8-78590d8fb7a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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