# Massachusetts H 4601: An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects.

Massachusetts H 4601, An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects., is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by House Committee on Ways and Means; status third reading, last action 2025-10-15 (Published as amended, see H4615); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts H 4601
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects.
- Status: third reading
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-10-14
- Last action: 2025-10-15, Published as amended, see H4615
- Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: House Ways and Means, House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 4 (468 yes, 23 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-10-15 | House | Amendment 70 adopted, as changed | pass | 147 | 8 |   |
| 2025-10-15 | House | Consolidated amendment A adopted | pass | 144 | 11 |   |
| 2025-10-15 | House | Consolidated amendment B adopted | pass | 151 | 4 |   |
| 2025-10-14 | committee | Committee In Part: 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 | pass | 26 | 0 | 7 |

## Actions (13)

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

## Bill text

- As Filed: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4601.pdf)

## Related bills

- H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax abatements (signed)
- H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police chief Neal Hovey (passed senate)
- H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G.L. chapter 59, section 5, clauses seventeenth D and forty-first C in the town o… (passed house)
- H 4755: An Act amending the means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in the town of Sudbury (signed)
- H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust to acquire year-round housing occupancy restrictions (signed)
- H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nicholas Spinale (second reading)

## Sources
- [As Filed (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4601.pdf)

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- [H 4755: An Act amending the means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in the t…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4755-194)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4601-194 (as of 2026-11-01).