---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2018 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects"
description: "An Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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 4160"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4160 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-02-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66136cdc-bad4-4eda-ad0c-f9da76b80169"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4160"
source_hash: "8c76a9ae2480edd8169a38cb1a0bcd03741cc940bfab8d10fbf381f7f33a5b72"
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 4160 (190th) — An Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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/H4160.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2018-01-31** New draft of H4158
- **2018-01-31** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-01-31** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-31** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-31** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-01-31** Amendment 1 adopted, as changed - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 308) `amendment-passage`
- **2018-01-31** Passed to be engrossed - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 309) `passage`
- **2018-02-01** Read, rules suspended, read second `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** New text substituted (Spilka), see S2280
- **2018-02-01** Ordered to a third reading
- **2018-02-01** Read third `reading-3`
- **2018-02-01** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #323 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2018-02-05** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Senate amendments divided
- **2018-02-15** House NON-concurred with the Senate amendment striking the emergency preamble
- **2018-02-15** House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment, see H4242
- **2018-02-15** Rules suspended
- **2018-02-15** Senate receded from its amendment striking the emergency preamble
- **2018-02-15** Senate concurred in the further House amendment
- **2018-02-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-02-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-02-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-02-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-02-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 24 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/66136cdc-bad4-4eda-ad0c-f9da76b80169`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).