An Act to improve Massachusetts home care

Reported by House Committee on Ways and Means · 45 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H4706 · Bill

26 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-11-05	House	Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
2025-11-05	House	Pending new draft of H4306
2025-11-05	House	New draft of H4306
2025-11-05	House	Ordered to a third reading
2025-11-05	House	Rules suspended
2025-11-05	House	Read third
2025-11-05	House	Amendment 5 adopted, as changed - 154 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 106)
2025-11-05	House	Passed to be engrossed - 153 YEAS to 1 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 107)
2025-11-06	Senate	Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means
2026-07-09	Senate	Also based on S2645
2026-07-09	Senate	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3170
2026-07-09	Senate	Order relative to subject matter adopted
2026-07-09	Senate	Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, July 16, 2026
2026-07-16	Senate	Read second
2026-07-16	Senate	Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3170
2026-07-16	Senate	Reprinted, as amended, see S3183
2026-07-16	Senate	Ordered to a third reading
2026-07-16	Senate	Read third
2026-07-16	Senate	Passed to be engrossed
2026-07-23	House	Rules suspended
2026-07-23	House	House NON-concurred in the Senate amendment
2026-07-23	House	Committee of conference appointed - (Stanley-F. Moran-DeCoste)
2026-07-27	Senate	Rules suspended
2026-07-27	Senate	Senate insisted on its amendment
2026-07-27	Senate	Committee of conference appointed (Brownsberger-Jehlen-Fattman), in concurrence
2026-07-30	House	Reported by H5627

2 recorded votes

When	Chamber	Roll call	Question	Tally
2025-11-05 15:17	House	No. 106	On adoption of amendment #5, chg	154–0
2025-11-05 15:21	House	No. 107	On passing to be engrossed	153–1

9 amendments filed

7 withdrawn · 1 adopted, as changed

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	Staffing At-Home Health and Hospice Agencies	Paul J. Donato	Withdrawn
House 2	Supporting Seniors' Financial Stability	Kate Lipper-Garabedian	Withdrawn
House 3	Hospital to Home Partnership Program	Kate Lipper-Garabedian	Withdrawn
House 4	Establishing the Office of Older Adult Advocate	Steven Ultrino	Withdrawn
House 5	Caregiver Commission	Michael P. Kushmerek	Adopted, as Changed
House 6	Digital Access and Workforce Support	Tara T. Hong	Withdrawn
House 7	Removing barriers to care for seniors in the Commonwealth	Jack Patrick Lewis	Withdrawn
House 8	Language Access and Cultural Competency Standards	Tara T. Hong	Withdrawn

Showing 8 of 9. An amendment marked consolidated was folded into a consolidated amendment, which under House Rule 33F cannot be adopted except by a roll call.

1 committee vote

Ways and Means (S) · 2026-07-09 10:30 · Ought to pass with an amendment - New Text

favorable · 13

reserve right · 2

no action · 3

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

Committee actions

Action	Committee
Correctly Drawn	Bills in the Third Reading (H)
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (S)
Accompanied

Cosponsors

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.