An Act modernizing the commonwealth's cannabis laws

Reported by Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy · 14 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H4160 · Bill

9 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-05-29	House	Reported from the committee on Cannabis Policy
2025-05-29	House	New draft of H143, H146, H148, H149, H155, H156, H158, H160, H162, H163, H168, H169, H170, H171, H173, H174, H179, H182, H183, H192 and H194
2025-05-29	House	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2025-06-04	House	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill with the same title, see H4187
2025-06-04	House	Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
2025-06-04	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendment pending
2025-06-04	House	Rules suspended
2025-06-04	House	Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2025-06-04	House	New draft substituted, see H4187

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	An Act modernizing the commonwealth’s cannabis laws	House Committee on Ways and Means	Adopted

Ways and Means (H) · 2025-06-03 10:45 · H.4160 “An Act modernizing the commonwealth’s cannabis laws” as amended

Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.

Action	Committee
Redraft	Cannabis Policy (J)
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (H)

In the order filed.

Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.