---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing the terms of certain bonds to be issued by the Commonwealth"
description: "Message from [BACKING TEXT]."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4147"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4147 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-01-23"
last_action: "2018-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f34e8cc-dff3-4166-ac1d-19d463d5549e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4147"
source_hash: "c1e8454a54ce55dbe3fc38d5faa187d389e458f3a882fb080b512ba1144dad8b"
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 4147 (190th) — An Act providing the terms of certain bonds to be issued by the Commonwealth

Message from [BACKING TEXT].

## 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/H4147.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-23** Referred to the committee on House Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-08** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-02-08** Rules suspended
- **2018-02-08** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-02-08** Read, rules suspended. read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-02-12** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-02-12** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-02-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-02-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-02-13** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 22 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f34e8cc-dff3-4166-ac1d-19d463d5549e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).