---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2018 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects."
description: "An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2018 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4946"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4946 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-10-29"
last_action: "2018-10-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db402791-16fe-4842-877e-1480889ac1b1"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4946"
source_hash: "fa403b5d91c6c164b3449b3bf10c9b3667b0c0ef8487e25bd92466a4f0abb4bf"
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 4946 (190th) — An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2018 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/190/H4946.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-10-29** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2018-10-29** Reported on a part of H4231
- **2018-10-29** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-10-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-10-29** Rules suspended
- **2018-10-29** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-10-29** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-10-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-10-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-10-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-10-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-10-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 277 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/db402791-16fe-4842-877e-1480889ac1b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).