# Massachusetts S 2540: An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects

Massachusetts S 2540, 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) Senate bill sponsored by no sponsor on record; status passed house, last action 2025-07-31 (Reported, in part, by S2575); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-S2540-194
- As of: 2026-11-01
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts S 2540
- 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: passed house
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-06-18
- Last action: 2025-07-31, Reported, in part, by S2575
- Sponsors: no sponsor on record
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: House Ways and Means, House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 1 (26 yes, 0 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-07-14 | committee | Committee Favorable with Amendment: S.2540 “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 | 1 |

## Actions (16)

- 2025-07-31: Reported, in part, by S2575 (Senate)
- 2025-07-14: Committee of conference appointed - (Michlewitz-Ferrante-Smola), in concurrence (House)
- 2025-07-14: House insisted on its amendment (House)
- 2025-07-14: Committee of conference (Rodrigues-Comerford-O'Connor) appointed (Senate)
- 2025-07-14: Senate NON-concurred in the House amendment (Senate)
- 2025-07-14: Rules suspended (Senate)
- 2025-07-14: Read third and passed to be engrossed (House)
- 2025-07-14: Rules suspended (House)
- 2025-07-14: Ordered to a third reading (House)
- 2025-07-14: Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) (House)
- 2025-07-14: Rules suspended (House)
- 2025-07-14: Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment pending (House)
- 2025-07-14: Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H4265, and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling (House)
- 2025-06-23: Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means (House)
- 2025-06-18: Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #53 (Yeas 38 to Nays 2) (Senate)
- 2025-06-18: Text of S2529, reprinted as amended (Senate)

## Bill text

- Passed to be engrossed, 2025-07-14: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2540.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 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)
- 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/S2540.pdf)

## Related
- [H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax aba…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4585-194)
- [H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police ch…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5435-194)
- [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 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H3909-194)
- [H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nichola…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5429-194)
- [H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the p…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5520-194)
- [Massachusetts bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/massachusetts/bills)
- [Massachusetts state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/massachusetts)
- [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills)

Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-S2540-194 (as of 2026-11-01).