---
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: "190th"
identifier: "H 4668"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4668 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-06-27"
last_action: "2018-08-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de61fc8d-ede8-4e37-bb99-f7f67e2e1a6b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4668"
source_hash: "13540109bc8709aa5458aea4fb1c34c0d401c657675f6d43f1705cf7ee912c0b"
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 4668 (190th) — 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/190/H4668.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-27** Referred to the committee on House Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-05** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-11** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-07-11** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-12** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-12** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-12** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-23** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-25** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-25** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-25** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-07-25** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-25** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-07-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 161 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de61fc8d-ede8-4e37-bb99-f7f67e2e1a6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).