---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act financing long-term improvements to municipal roads and bridges"
description: "An Act financing long-term improvements to municipal roads and bridges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 5375"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5375 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-04-15"
last_action: "2026-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f25f58e1-10af-4d2e-9417-1d9d10dffe54"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5375"
source_hash: "78fe4c2dc1745304c0ca45ddef50b1af1339ac83b6ecefebb4469c70a051f9bb"
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 5375 (194th) — An Act financing long-term improvements to municipal roads and bridges

## 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/H5375.pdf)

## Votes

- H. 5375 On Enactment State Loan — **152–0** (pass) · lower
- H. 5375 On Engrossment — **155–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Maura T. Healey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-04-15** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2026-04-15** Pending new draft of H5279
- **2026-04-15** New draft of H5279
- **2026-04-15** Ordered to a third reading
- **2026-04-15** Rules suspended
- **2026-04-15** Read third `reading-3`
- **2026-04-15** Passed to be engrossed - 155 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 157 ) `passage`
- **2026-04-16** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2026-05-19** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-05-19** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2026-05-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-05-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-06-03** Enacted - 152 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 200 ) `passage`
- **2026-06-04** Enacted -see Roll Call #191 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2026-06-04** Laid before the Governor
- **2026-06-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 100 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f25f58e1-10af-4d2e-9417-1d9d10dffe54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).