---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act financing long-term improvements to municipal roads and bridges"
description: "An Act financing long-term improvements to municipal roads and bridges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4307"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4307 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-07-23"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3a968d4-6039-40c1-ba3d-896d6ac7bd22"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4307"
source_hash: "862fcfc08ae65aad9ed899721a2cf69445eb59571e38ade0c63bf98ae4dc2814"
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 4307 (194th) — An Act financing long-term improvements to municipal roads and bridges

## 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/H4307.pdf)

## Votes

- H. 4307 On passing to be enacted — **156–0** (pass) · lower
- H. 4307 On passing to be engrossed — **156–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-23** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2025-07-23** Pending new draft of H4257
- **2025-07-23** New draft of H4257
- **2025-07-23** Ordered to a third reading
- **2025-07-23** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-23** Read third `reading-3`
- **2025-07-23** Passed to be engrossed - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 66 ) `passage`
- **2025-07-28** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-07-31** Read third (title changed) `reading-3`
- **2025-07-31** Amendment #1 (Keenan) rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2025-07-31** Amendment #2 (Finegold) rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2025-07-31** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2025-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-07-31** Enacted - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 69 ) `passage`
- **2025-07-31** Enacted -see Roll Call #67 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2025-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2025-08-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 17 of the Acts 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/f3a968d4-6039-40c1-ba3d-896d6ac7bd22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).