---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects"
description: "An Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4530"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4530 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-09-17"
last_action: "2025-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/691a1698-32d1-47e2-8802-4ee7df2f59a8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4530"
source_hash: "4929443efd3da54d1ef25d7eb004a8d39c7a71db1418d03038191453a606f9ef"
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 4530 (194th) — An Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects

## 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/194/H4530.pdf)

## Votes

- H. 4530 On passing to be engrossed — **148–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-17** Reported by the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2025-09-17** Reported on a part of H4003
- **2025-09-17** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-09-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-09-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-09-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-17** Read third `reading-3`
- **2025-09-17** Passed to be engrossed - 148 YEAS to 1 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 73 ) `passage`
- **2025-09-18** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-18** Read third `reading-3`
- **2025-09-18** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #70 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2025-09-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-09-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-09-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-09-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-09-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 33 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/691a1698-32d1-47e2-8802-4ee7df2f59a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).