---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2017 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects"
description: "An Act making appropriations for the 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 3718"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3718 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-05-24"
last_action: "2017-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c872d818-fc2b-4085-b5b4-9089ce8ad87f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3718"
source_hash: "184611aa66df495ccaf88286767d117268e2d815feafbe64b0b8f41b7ae12ba8"
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 3718 (190th) — An Act making appropriations for the 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/H3718.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2017-05-24** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2017-05-24** Reported on a part of H72
- **2017-05-24** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-05-24** Rules suspended
- **2017-05-24** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-05-24** Passed to be engrossed - 153 YEAS to 1 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 61) `passage`
- **2017-05-25** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-01** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-01** Rules suspended
- **2017-06-01** Read second, amendment (as recommended by the committee on Senate Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-06-01** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-01** House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment
- **2017-06-08** Rules suspended
- **2017-06-08** Senate concurred in the further House amendment
- **2017-06-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-06-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-06-08** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-06-08** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-06-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 20 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/c872d818-fc2b-4085-b5b4-9089ce8ad87f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).