---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to transferring federal funds to the federal COVID-19 response fund"
description: "An Act relative to transferring federal funds to the federal COVID-19 response fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3827"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3827 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 32
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-06-01"
last_action: "2021-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fab8085-c642-43c0-86f5-7f00a6397727"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3827"
source_hash: "a08f351c517ebe86d07ba68a1752523a6cf5fb16c28298d2ee7ad693c7716242"
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 3827 (192nd) — An Act relative to transferring federal funds to the federal COVID-19 response fund

## 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/192/H3827.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-01** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2021-06-01** Reported on a part of H3773
- **2021-06-01** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-01** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-06-01** Rules suspended
- **2021-06-01** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-06-07** Read, rules suspended `reading-1`
- **2021-06-07** Read second `reading-2`
- **2021-06-07** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2466 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-07** Ordered to a third reading
- **2021-06-07** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-06-07** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-07** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2021-06-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-06-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-06-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-06-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-06-21** Governor returned to the House an amendment
- **2021-06-21** For message, see H3902
- **2021-06-21** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-22** Governors amendment considered (in the form approved by the committee on Bills in the Third Reading)
- **2021-06-22** Governor's amendment rejected - 30 YEAS to 130 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 48 ) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-06-22** Amendment adopted - 160 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 49 ) `amendment-passage`
- **2021-06-24** Rules suspended
- **2021-06-24** Governor's amendment rejected -see Roll Call #49 (Yeas 3 to Nays 36) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-06-24** Senate concurred in the House amendment, with a further amendment
- **2021-06-24** House concurred in the Senate further amendment
- **2021-06-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-06-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-06-24** Re-enacted
- **2021-06-24** Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor
- **2021-06-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 22 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9fab8085-c642-43c0-86f5-7f00a6397727`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).