---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2017 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects"
description: "An Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2017 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3448"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3448 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-03-22"
last_action: "2017-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e21baeff-a975-4f9d-b3c7-aa9c00394bb3"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3448"
source_hash: "598e3695ba51e7984161096d0748ab9801b977de6b883549af6b6d83ec3ac786"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---

# Massachusetts H 3448 (190th) — An Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2017 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3448.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-03-22** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2017-03-22** Reported on a part of H72
- **2017-03-22** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-03-22** Rules suspended
- **2017-03-22** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-03-22** Amendment 4 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-22** Passed to be engrossed - 156 YEAS to 1 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 22) `passage`
- **2017-03-22** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-03-22** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-03-22** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-03-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-03-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-03-23** Laid before the Governor
- **2017-03-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e21baeff-a975-4f9d-b3c7-aa9c00394bb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).