# Massachusetts H 5280: An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects

Massachusetts H 5280, An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 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 no sponsor on record; status passed senate, last action 2026-06-03 (Reported, in part, by H5470); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts H 5280
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects
- Status: passed senate
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2026-03-18
- Last action: 2026-06-03, Reported, in part, by H5470
- Sponsors: no sponsor on record
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: Senate Ways and Means
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 2 (166 yes, 3 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- (none)

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-02 | committee | Committee Favorable with Amendment: Ought to pass with an amendment - New Text | pass | 16 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-03-18 | House | Passed to be engrossed | pass | 150 | 3 |   |

## Actions (19)

- 2026-06-03: Reported, in part, by H5470 (House)
- 2026-04-16: Committee of conference appointed (Rodrigues-Comerford-O'connor), in concurrence (Senate)
- 2026-04-16: Senate insisted on its amendment (Senate)
- 2026-04-16: Rules suspended (Senate)
- 2026-04-16: Committee of conference appointed - (Michlewitz-Diggs-Sweezey) (House)
- 2026-04-16: House NON-concurred in the Senate amendment (House)
- 2026-04-16: Rules suspended (House)
- 2026-04-09: Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #148 (Yeas 35 to Nays 4) (Senate)
- 2026-04-09: Read third (Senate)
- 2026-04-09: Ordered to a third reading (Senate)
- 2026-04-09: Reprinted, as amended, see S3054 (Senate)
- 2026-04-09: Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3041 (Senate)
- 2026-04-09: Read second (Senate)
- 2026-04-02: Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, April 9, 2026 (Senate)
- 2026-04-02: Order relative to subject matter adopted (Senate)
- 2026-04-02: Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3041 (Senate)
- 2026-03-23: Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means (Senate)
- 2026-03-18: Passed to be engrossed - 150 YEAS to 3 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 145) (House)
- 2026-03-18: H5264, published as amended (House)

## Bill text

- Passed to be engrossed, 2026-04-09: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5280.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 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the position of firefighter in the town of Dudley (signed)

## Sources
- [Passed to be engrossed (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5280.pdf)

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- [H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5515-194)
- [H 4755: An Act amending the means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in the t…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4755-194)
- [H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H3909-194)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5280-194 (as of 2026-11-01).