---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds to be issued by the Commonwealth"
description: "An Act 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 5000"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5000 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-08-15"
last_action: "2024-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44acacdc-af4f-478f-bb61-1ff2d00c0881"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H5000"
source_hash: "6b9c0a631f01615c655ffe387dfc83fbebb15589ac30d2ce73daade49782912f"
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 5000 (193rd) — An Act 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/H5000.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Maura T. Healey — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-08-15** Read; and referred to the committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-16** Senate concurred
- **2024-09-10** Hearing scheduled for 09/11/2024 from 09:00 AM-01:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2024-09-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-09-19** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-09-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-09-19** Rules suspended
- **2024-09-19** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-09-19** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-09-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-09-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-09-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-09-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-10-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 218 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44acacdc-af4f-478f-bb61-1ff2d00c0881`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).