---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making certain appropriations for Fiscal Year 2022 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill"
description: "An Act making certain appropriations for Fiscal Year 2022 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3905"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3905 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-06-22"
last_action: "2021-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7e205c4-8fed-4d35-8aa9-703709be890a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3905"
source_hash: "ab4ab198bde10b58c7c02ef035a4062c52400bb72fcfde13af691decc6f68dc2"
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 3905 (192nd) — An Act making certain appropriations for Fiscal Year 2022 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/192/H3905.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-22** Referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-28** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-06-28** Rules suspended
- **2021-06-28** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-06-28** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-06-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-06-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-06-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 23 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7e205c4-8fed-4d35-8aa9-703709be890a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).