---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds to be issued by the commonwealth."
description: "An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds to be issued by the commonwealth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4890"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4890 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-08-16"
last_action: "2018-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1fad36e-af83-425d-bc99-6d5f930e780b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4890"
source_hash: "a6fbeb7964fcdd5cbdb97987c07af1be10dd53467ce5e0ab9eec10e0f45aee8d"
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 4890 (190th) — An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds to be issued by 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/H4890.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-08-16** Referred to the committee on House Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-23** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-09-20** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-09-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-09-20** Rules suspended
- **2018-09-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-09-24** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-10-01** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-10-01** Rules suspended
- **2018-10-01** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-10-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-10-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-10-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-10-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-10-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 260 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/a1fad36e-af83-425d-bc99-6d5f930e780b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).