---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2024 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill"
description: "An Act making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2024 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4022"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4022 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-07-27"
last_action: "2023-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd41ddab-6448-4236-b615-594eb98a35fc"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4022"
source_hash: "cc8697e600bdbdbb46c54c04323f2563af255660e17a71c0d02319fa011f186e"
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 4022 (193rd) — An Act making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2024 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/193/H4022.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Maura T. Healey — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-07-27** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-27** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-07-27** Rules suspended
- **2023-07-27** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-07-27** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-07-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-07-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-07-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 24 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/cd41ddab-6448-4236-b615-594eb98a35fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).