---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act financing improvements to municipal roads and bridges"
description: "A message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation relative to financing improvements to municipal roads and bridges (House, No. 69). January 22, 2019."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 69"
citation: "Massachusetts H 69 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9108069-e835-467a-b249-8c156c4b460a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H69"
source_hash: "9e4b80975dadd76fd351c9ece940cafa9048858c238ac2f8131b7094d87a80d4"
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 69 (191st) — An Act financing improvements to municipal roads and bridges

A message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation relative to financing improvements to municipal roads and bridges (House, No. 69). January 22, 2019.

## 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/H69.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-22** Referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Senate concurred
- **2019-02-28** Hearing scheduled for 03/05/2019 from 10:00 AM-11:00 AM in A-1
- **2019-04-10** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-18** Hearing scheduled for 05/01/2019 from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM in A-1
- **2019-05-06** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-05-08** Rules suspended
- **2019-05-08** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-05-08** Passed to be engrossed - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 57) `passage`
- **2019-05-13** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-20** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-20** Rules suspended
- **2019-05-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-21** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-05-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-05-23** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-05-23** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-05-29** Enacted - 152 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 60) `passage`
- **2019-06-06** Enacted -see Roll Call #63 (40 Yeas to 0 Nays) `passage`
- **2019-06-06** Laid before the Governor
- **2019-06-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 16 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9108069-e835-467a-b249-8c156c4b460a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).