---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act financing improvements to municipal roads and bridges"
description: "An Act financing improvements to municipal roads and bridges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4638"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4638 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-03-30"
last_action: "2022-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14521f41-bb13-4f6e-b142-dfa570123462"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4638"
source_hash: "8a916cb80a621cdf1a24af3538befc6188ecd53cfc1eb6bcda2fd78893c638f9"
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 4638 (192nd) — An Act financing 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/192/H4638.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.

- **2022-03-30** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2022-03-30** Pending new draft of H4358
- **2022-03-30** New draft of H4358
- **2022-03-30** Ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third `reading-3`
- **2022-03-30** Amendment 1 rejected - 28 YEAS to 128 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 161 ) `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-30** Passed to be engrossed - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 162 ) `passage`
- **2022-03-31** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-06** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-06** Order relative to subject matter adopted
- **2022-06-06** Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, June 9, 2022
- **2022-06-09** Read second `reading-2`
- **2022-06-09** Amendment #1 (Tarr) rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2022-06-09** Amendment #2 (Tarr) rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2022-06-09** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-06-09** Read third `reading-3`
- **2022-06-09** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-06-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-06-16** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-06-16** Enacted - 155 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 198 ) `passage`
- **2022-06-16** Enacted -see Roll Call #189 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2022-06-16** Laid before the Governor
- **2022-06-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 89 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14521f41-bb13-4f6e-b142-dfa570123462`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).