---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2020 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects"
description: "An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2020 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 4561"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4561 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-03-12"
last_action: "2020-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3bb1dbc9-e8bb-4fcc-b70b-fca3470f5edd"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4561"
source_hash: "22a59dc6611ee95eb048122dc1150e96f4fd779c6d4e992a555c5259a86b5bfc"
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 4561 (191st) — An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2020 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/H4561.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-12** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2020-03-12** Reported on a part of H4354
- **2020-03-12** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-03-12** Rules suspended
- **2020-03-12** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-03-12** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-03-12** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-03-12** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-03-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 37 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3bb1dbc9-e8bb-4fcc-b70b-fca3470f5edd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).