---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2019 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects"
description: "An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2019 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3638"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3638 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2019-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14c67dcc-c434-4bb0-b156-1dd73ea59335"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3638"
source_hash: "7bd1c0f400f90c93cb09b0492f4106e510c50e06b170099933e13c0c6127c521"
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 3638 (191st) — An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2019 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/191/H3638.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-27** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2019-03-27** Reported on a part of H74
- **2019-03-27** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-03-27** Rules suspended
- **2019-03-27** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-03-27** Passed to be engrossed - 140 YEAS to 14 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 34) `passage`
- **2019-03-28** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-03-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-03-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-03-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-03-28** Enacted - see Roll Call #20 [YEAS 33 to NAYS 5] `passage`
- **2019-03-28** Laid before the Governor
- **2019-03-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 6 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14c67dcc-c434-4bb0-b156-1dd73ea59335`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).