---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2021 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill"
description: "An Act making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2021 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4905"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4905 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-07-28"
last_action: "2020-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ee17c62-c260-46b7-87e2-f959dbbcc65f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4905"
source_hash: "ff9a8bd96c88db1a86bde2d82f8b17a4d77ac1f06efa02e7d990716f977d654e"
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 4905 (191st) — An Act making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2021 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill

## 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/191/H4905.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.

- **2020-07-28** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2020-07-28** New draft of H4869
- **2020-07-28** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-07-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-07-28** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-28** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-07-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-07-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-07-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-07-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-08-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 131 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`
- **2020-08-04** Governor returned to the House with amendments to certain sections

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ee17c62-c260-46b7-87e2-f959dbbcc65f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).