---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2026 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill"
description: "Message from Her Excellency the Governor submitting requests for making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2026 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4237"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4237 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-06-26"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/343bb1dc-3052-4a5c-9443-fbdfb9d8d8db"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4237"
source_hash: "62e210fbf70e4ff965404699087ec04703d63c6e81d57b7791f20fce4cbc87d4"
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 4237 (194th) — An Act making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2026 before final action on the General Appropriation Bill

Message from Her Excellency the Governor submitting requests for making certain appropriations for fiscal year 2026 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/194/H4237.pdf)

## Votes

- H. 4237 On passing to be enacted — **144–1** (pass) · lower
- H. 4237 On passing to be engrossed — **143–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maura T. Healey — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-26** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-30** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-06-30** Rules suspended
- **2025-06-30** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended and read third `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-06-30** Passed to be engrossed - 143 YEAS to 1 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 59 ) `passage`
- **2025-06-30** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-06-30** Enacted - 144 YEAS to 1 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 60 ) `passage`
- **2025-06-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-07-01** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 8 of the Ats of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/343bb1dc-3052-4a5c-9443-fbdfb9d8d8db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).