---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2019 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill"
description: "Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation relative to making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2019 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4650"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4650 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-06-21"
last_action: "2018-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0a0d046-5691-40e9-a5f5-ad76a0fa3969"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4650"
source_hash: "e111c734163eee83c747c03d3b2978e052476c77086b00043e6e80b70936e665"
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 4650 (190th) — An Act making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2019 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill

Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation relative to making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2019 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill.

## 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/H4650.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-21** Referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-25** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-06-25** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-25** Read second, ordered to the third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-06-25** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-06-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-06-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-06-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 122 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/d0a0d046-5691-40e9-a5f5-ad76a0fa3969`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).