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An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects.

Reported by House Committee on Ways and Means  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

H4601  ·  Bill

13 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2025-10-14HouseReported by the committee on House Ways and Means
2025-10-14HouseReported on a part of H4429
2025-10-14HouseCommittee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2025-10-15HouseCommittee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
2025-10-15HouseRules suspended
2025-10-15HouseRead second and ordered to a third reading
2025-10-15HouseRules suspended
2025-10-15HouseRead third
2025-10-15HouseAmendment 70 adopted, as changed - 147 YEAS to 8 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 89)
2025-10-15HouseAmendment 53 rejected
2025-10-15HouseConsolidated amendment A adopted - 144 YEAS to 11 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 90)
2025-10-15HouseConsolidated amendment B adopted - 151 YEAS to 4 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 91)
2025-10-15HousePublished as amended, see H4615

4 recorded votes

WhenChamberRoll callQuestionTally
2025-10-15 15:20HouseNo. 89On adoption of amendment #70, chg147–8
2025-10-15 16:07HouseNo. 90On adoption of consolidated amendment A144–11
2025-10-15 17:37HouseNo. 91On adoption of consolidated amendment B151–4
2025-10-15 17:41HouseNo. 92On passing to be engrossed141–14

76 amendments filed

71 consolidated  ·  2 adopted  ·  1 rejected  ·  1 withdrawn  ·  1 adopted, as changed

No.TitleMoved byOutcome
House AConsolidated Amendment AAdopted
House BConsolidated Amendment BAdopted
House 53HomeBASE ProgramKenneth P. SweezeyRejected
House 57Definition of insurance policy negotiationDavid BieleWithdrawn
House 70Massachusetts Hospital Assessment Structure and Health Safety Net FinancingJohn J. Lawn, Jr.Adopted, as Changed

Showing 5 of 76. An amendment marked consolidated was folded into a consolidated amendment, which under House Rule 33F cannot be adopted except by a roll call.

1 committee vote

Ways and Means (H)  ·  2025-10-14 10:45  ·  H.4429 “An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects

favorable · 26

reserve right · 7

no action · 3

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

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
In PartWays and Means (H)
Place in ODSteering, Policy and Scheduling (H)
Correctly DrawnBills in the Third Reading (H)

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.