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An Act empowering disadvantaged state contractors” provides up-front down payments and bridge loans to socially or economically disadvantaged microbusinesses and small businesses that secure state contracts through CDFIs and non-traditional lenders

Filed by Bud L. Williams  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

H315  ·  Bill  ·  docket HD3223

5 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2025-02-27HouseReferred to the committee on Community Development and Small Businesses
2025-02-27SenateSenate concurred
2025-06-23JointHearing scheduled for 06/26/2025 from 10:00 AM-02:00 PM in A-1
2025-06-25JointHearing rescheduled to 06/26/2025 from 10:00 AM-02:00 PM in B-1
2025-10-09HouseBill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

1 of these was struck from the record by the clerk and shown ruled through, because a struck line is part of what the record says happened.

1 committee vote

Community Development and Small Businesses (J)  ·  2025-09-24 16:10  ·  Poll

favorable · 10

adverse · 1

Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.

Public hearing

House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.

DateCommitteeWhereStatus
2025-06-26Community Development and Small Businesses (J)B-1, 24 Beacon Street, BostonCompleted

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
FavorableCommunity Development and Small Businesses (J)

Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.