---
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: "192nd"
identifier: "H 72"
citation: "Massachusetts H 72 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-01"
last_action: "2021-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de3fb460-02cb-40d8-8cd2-0c54851c465a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H72"
source_hash: "7fc31897207eb9a3cb5e39c72a0b6630e56da2a3b1dd7652e2088d7e5ccc29ce"
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 72 (192nd) — 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/192/H72.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.

- **2021-03-01** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2021-03-01** New draft of H56
- **2021-03-01** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-03-04** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-03-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-03-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-03-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-03-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-03-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 4 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/de3fb460-02cb-40d8-8cd2-0c54851c465a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).