---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds to be issued by the Commonwealth"
description: "A message from Her Excellency the Governor (under the provisions of Section 3 of Article LXII of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to providing for the terms of certain bonds to be issued by the Commonwealth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4057"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4057 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-08-14"
last_action: "2023-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e788953e-7646-4f86-9e99-2699d8766eda"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4057"
source_hash: "605ba26a37569607f67bc4d0e60d41d2e7a99d9924e2852aa06cee00d8059520"
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 4057 (193rd) — An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds to be issued by the Commonwealth

A message from Her Excellency the Governor (under the provisions of Section 3 of Article LXII of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to providing for the terms of certain bonds 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/H4057.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Maura T. Healey — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-08-14** Referred to the committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets `referral-committee`
- **2023-08-17** Senate concurred
- **2023-08-21** Hearing scheduled for 08/23/2023 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2023-08-28** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-09-07** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-09-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-09-07** Rules suspended
- **2023-09-07** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-09-07** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-09-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-09-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2023-09-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-09-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-09-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 40 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/e788953e-7646-4f86-9e99-2699d8766eda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).