---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds for transportation improvements to be issued by the Commonwealth"
description: "An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds for transportation improvements to be issued by the Commonwealth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3972"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3972 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-07-19"
last_action: "2021-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c4b5c05-4c9f-42e3-8b0b-80a65d203ed3"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3972"
source_hash: "e9febe243c3b5e771d3504207d1226112f1bd1921ecf3e8b257d2da97bacc83c"
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 3972 (192nd) — An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds for transportation improvements 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/192/H3972.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-07-19** Referred to the committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-21** Senate concurred
- **2021-07-28** Hearing scheduled for 08/02/2021 from 12:00 PM-02:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2021-08-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-09-02** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-09-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-09-02** Rules suspended
- **2021-09-02** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-09-09** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read a third time and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-13** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-09-13** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-09-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-09-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-09-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 49 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/6c4b5c05-4c9f-42e3-8b0b-80a65d203ed3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).