---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for immediate capital improvement needs of the Commonwealth"
description: "An Act providing for immediate capital improvement needs of the Commonwealth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4015"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4015 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-11-08"
last_action: "2017-11-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/463d6182-f9a8-44bf-ac85-a20378475ef5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4015"
source_hash: "5dac875a8401cd8d4fdea365d7a167185352d7f56344cacfcade983b35fea2e5"
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 4015 (190th) — An Act providing for immediate capital improvement needs of the Commonwealth

## 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/H4015.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2017-11-08** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2017-11-08** Reported on a part of H3968
- **2017-11-08** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-11-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-11-08** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-08** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-11-08** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-08** Read third `reading-3`
- **2017-11-08** Amendment 1 adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-11-08** Passed to be engrossed - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 280) `passage`
- **2017-11-09** Read, rules suspended, read second, amended, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-11-09** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-15** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-15** House NON-concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2017-11-15** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-15** Senate receded from its amendment
- **2017-11-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-11-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-11-15** Passed to be enacted - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 302)
- **2017-11-15** Enacted -see Roll Call #313 (Yeas 33 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2017-11-15** Laid before the Governor
- **2017-11-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 133 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/463d6182-f9a8-44bf-ac85-a20378475ef5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).