---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds to provide for a program of housing, community development, economic opportunities, support for local governments, increased innovation and job creation to be issued by the Commonwealth"
description: "An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds to provide for a program of housing, community development, economic opportunities, support for local governments, increased innovation and job creation to be issued by the Commonwealth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3862"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3862 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-05-18"
last_action: "2023-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/607428a8-b362-4e3d-8739-1978c0f116f9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3862"
source_hash: "65776feb7b13a1df0320eefd455e818fae5f4a66acfd2a0bd3ef6e9302c6548c"
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 3862 (193rd) — An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds to provide for a program of housing, community development, economic opportunities, support for local governments, increased innovation and job creation 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/193/H3862.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Maura T. Healey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-18** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2023-05-18** Pending new draft of H3737
- **2023-05-18** New draft of H3737
- **2023-05-18** Ordered to a third reading
- **2023-05-18** Rules suspended
- **2023-05-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-30** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-08** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-08** Rules suspended
- **2023-06-08** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-06-12** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-06-12** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-06-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-06-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-06-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 13 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/607428a8-b362-4e3d-8739-1978c0f116f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).