# Massachusetts H 4681: An Act protecting labor and abolishing barriers to organizing rights

Massachusetts H 4681, An Act protecting labor and abolishing barriers to organizing rights, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development; status in committee, last action 2025-11-03 (Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts H 4681
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act protecting labor and abolishing barriers to organizing rights
- Status: in committee
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-11-03
- Last action: 2025-11-03, Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
- Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development
- Cosponsors: 33
- Subjects: Labor and Workforce Development, House Ways and Means
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 1 (9 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development
- Cosponsor: Adrianne Pusateri Ramos (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Bridget Plouffe (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Bud L. Williams (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Carmine Lawrence Gentile (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Chynah Tyler (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Danillo A. Sena (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Dennis C. Gallagher (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Erika Uyterhoeven (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Estela A. Reyes (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Hadley Luddy (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: James B. Eldridge (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: James C. Arena-DeRosa (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: James J. O'Day (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Kristin E. Kassner (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Lindsay N. Sabadosa (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Lisa Field (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Margaret R. Scarsdale (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Marjorie C. Decker (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Mark D. Sylvia (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Michael D. Brady (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Michelle L. Badger (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Natalie M. Higgins (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Nick Collins (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Patricia A. Duffy (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Paul McMurtry (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Ryan M. Hamilton (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Samantha Montaño (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Steven Owens (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Steven Ultrino (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Thomas M. Stanley (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Tricia Farley-Bouvier (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: William F. MacGregor (Democratic), House

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-10-27 | committee | Committee Redraft: Do you agree with the Chair's recommendation that the redrafted language of H2086 should be given a favorable report? | pass | 9 | 0 | 1 |

## Actions (3)

- 2025-11-03: Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means (House)
- 2025-11-03: New draft of H2086 (House)
- 2025-11-03: Reported from the committee on Labor and Workforce Development (House)

## Bill text

- As Filed: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4681.pdf)

## Related bills

- H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax abatements (signed)
- H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police chief Neal Hovey (passed senate)
- H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G.L. chapter 59, section 5, clauses seventeenth D and forty-first C in the town o… (passed house)
- H 4755: An Act amending the means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in the town of Sudbury (signed)
- H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust to acquire year-round housing occupancy restrictions (signed)
- H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nicholas Spinale (second reading)

## Sources
- [As Filed (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4681.pdf)

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