An Act Preparing Apprentices through Training, Hiring, and Skills in Massachusetts

Reported by Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development · 34 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H4974 · Bill

8 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2026-01-20	House	Reported from the committee on Labor and Workforce Development
2026-01-20	House	New draft of H2085, H2121, H2126 and H3375
2026-01-20	House	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-01-27	House	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill, see H4994
2026-01-27	House	Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
2026-01-27	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
2026-01-28	House	Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2026-01-28	House	New draft substituted, see H4994

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	An Act relative to preparing apprentices in the commonwealth	House Committee on Ways and Means	Adopted

Ways and Means (H) · 2026-01-27 10:45 · H.4974 “An Act Preparing Apprentices through Training, Hiring, and Skills in Massachusetts” 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	Labor and Workforce Development (J)
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (H)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (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.