# Massachusetts H 4974: An Act Preparing Apprentices through Training, Hiring, and Skills in Massachusetts

Massachusetts H 4974, An Act Preparing Apprentices through Training, Hiring, and Skills in Massachusetts, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development; status second reading, last action 2026-01-28 (New draft substituted, see H4994) (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts H 4974
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act Preparing Apprentices through Training, Hiring, and Skills in Massachusetts
- Status: second reading
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2026-01-20
- Last action: 2026-01-28, New draft substituted, see H4994
- Sponsor: Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development
- Cosponsors: 34
- Subjects: Labor and Workforce Development, House Ways and Means, House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
- Touches household money: no
- Roll calls: 2 (30 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: Adam J. Scanlon (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Amy Mah Sangiolo (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Christopher J. Worrell (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Danillo A. Sena (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Estela A. Reyes (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: James B. Eldridge (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: James C. Arena-DeRosa (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: James K. Hawkins (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Jeffrey Rosario Turco (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Joseph W. McGonagle Jr. (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Judith A. Garcia (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Kenneth I. Gordon (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Kip A. Diggs (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Kristin E. Kassner (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Lindsay N. Sabadosa (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Lisa Field (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Marjorie C. Decker (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Michelle M. DuBois (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Natalie M. Blais (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Natalie M. Higgins (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Patricia A. Duffy (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Patrick Joseph Kearney (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Paul McMurtry (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Richard G. Wells Jr. (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Rita A. Mendes (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Rodney M. Elliott (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Samantha Montaño (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Steven Owens (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Tara T. Hong (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Thomas M. Stanley (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Thomas W. Moakley (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Vanna Howard (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: William F. MacGregor (Democratic), House

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-01-27 | committee | Committee Favorable with Amendment: H.4974 “An Act Preparing Apprentices through Training, Hiring, and Skills in Massachusetts” as amended | pass | 20 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-01-21 | committee | Committee Redraft: Favorable? | pass | 10 | 0 |   |

## Actions (8)

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

## Bill text

- As Filed: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4974.pdf)

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- 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 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the position of firefighter in the town of Dudley (signed)

## Sources
- [As Filed (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4974.pdf)

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