---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act financing improvements to municipal roads and bridges"
description: "An Act financing improvements to municipal roads and bridges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4803"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4803 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-06-22"
last_action: "2020-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/035ab614-defd-4099-9baf-1d253cb26549"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4803"
source_hash: "21a071b85fc743110d6dd9b67b5ce4c541da72e5c6c578e2852c50b19c05be4c"
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 4803 (191st) — An Act financing improvements to municipal roads and bridges

## 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/191/H4803.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Charles D. Baker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-06-22** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2020-06-22** Reported on the residue of H4326
- **2020-06-22** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-06-22** Rules suspended
- **2020-06-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-06-25** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-29** Referred to the committee on House Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-29** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2020-06-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-06-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-06-30** Enacted - 159 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 192) `passage`
- **2020-07-02** Enacted -see Roll Call #210 (Yeas 39 - Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-07-02** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-07-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 114 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/035ab614-defd-4099-9baf-1d253cb26549`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).