---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects"
description: "An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 5348"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5348 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2026-04-06"
last_action: "2026-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8263973f-5313-40aa-b1ed-f86ccd55c5e9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5348"
source_hash: "a186452edde2c0bcd5b60d0a01ef8c88956588c337e086235748c77fde92e260"
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 5348 (194th) — An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects

## 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/H5348.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-04-06** Reported by the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2026-04-06** Reported on a part of H5050
- **2026-04-06** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Ordersof the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-04-06** Rules suspended
- **2026-04-06** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2026-04-06** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2026-04-06** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-04-06** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-04-06** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-04-06** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-04-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8263973f-5313-40aa-b1ed-f86ccd55c5e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).