# Massachusetts S 3: An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions, and certain activities of the commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund, and serial bond requirements, and for certain permanent improvements

Massachusetts S 3, An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions, and certain activities of the commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund, and serial bond requirements, and for certain permanent improvements, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) Senate bill sponsored by Senate Committee on Ways and Means; status failed, last action 2025-05-22 (See H4001) (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts S 3
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions, and certain activities of the commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund, and serial bond requirements, and for certain permanent improvements
- Status: failed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-05-05
- Last action: 2025-05-22, See H4001
- Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: Senate Ways and Means
- Touches household money: no
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

## Actions (178)

- 2025-05-22: See H4001 (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Substituted as a next text for H4001 (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Reprinted as amended, see S2525 (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Ways and Means amendment adopted, as amended (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #761 (Rodrigues) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #817 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #800 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #793 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #718 (Tarr) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #613 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #605 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #603 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #601 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #401 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #397 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #396 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #393 (Tarr) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #378 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #278 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #261 (Tarr) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #258 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #257 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #250 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #665 (Lewis) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #277 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #756 (Tarr) rejected -see Roll Call #47 (Yeas 5 to Nays 34) (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #373 (Tarr) rejected -see Roll Call #46 (Yeas 9 to Nays 30) (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #263 (Tarr) rejected -see Roll Call #45 (Yeas 5 to Nays 34) (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #96 (Tarr) rejected -see Roll Call #44 (Yeas 5 to Nays 34) (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #13 (Tarr) rejected -see Roll Call #43 (Yeas 5 to Nays 34) (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: The following amendments were considered as one and rejected:11, 12, 14, 16, 140, 172, 183, 252, 253, 254, 255, 259, 274, 299, 303, 309, 312, 315, 319, 323, 364, 377, 387, 388, 394, 395, 398, 402, 406, 469, 472, 579, 584, 600, 604, 606, 607, 610, 611, 612, 671, 686, 687, 715, 716, 720, 722, 757, 758, 759, 760, 764, 765, 769, 785, 787, 788, 790, 791, 792, 809, 810, 811, 812, 813, 814, 818, 824, 826, 834, 838, 843, 844, 866, 867, 870, 871, 874, 911, 912, 934, 935, 936 (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: The following amendments were considered as one and adopted:156, 169, 260, 316, 317, 318, 322, 392, 468, 470, 557, 766, 770, 794, 865, 954, 955, 956, 957, 958, 959, 960, 961, 962, 963, 964, 971, 978, 991, 993 (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #924 (Montigny) rejected -see Roll Call #42 (Yeas 12 to Nays 28) (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #1036 (Dooner) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #837 (Dooner) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #786 (Collins) adopted -see Roll Call #41 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #629 (Gómez) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #187 (Edwards) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: Amendment #90 (Jehlen) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #900 (Collins) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #1041 (Driscoll) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #324 (Eldridge) adopted -see Roll Call #40 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #622 (Lewis) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #1047 (Driscoll) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #873 (Moore) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #892 (Moore) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #890 (Moore) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #1052 (Edwards) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #781 (Collins) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #749 (Oliveira) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #743 (Edwards) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #681 (DiDomenico) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #646 (Rausch) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #616 (Eldridge) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #615 (Oliveira) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #574 (Montigny) adopted -see Roll Call #39 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #524 (DiDomenico) adopted -see Roll Call #38 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #504 (R. Kennedy) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #491 (Collins) adopted -see Roll Call #37 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #508 (E. Kennedy) adopted -see Roll Call #36 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #821 (Rush) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #428 (Gómez) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #251 (Moore) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #95 (Finegold) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #476 (Rausch) adopted -see Roll Call #35 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #803 (Velis) adopted -see Roll Call #34 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #541 (Friedman) adopted -see Roll Call #33 (Yeas 34 to Nays 5) (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #999 (Keenan) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #953 (Fernandes) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #932 (Fattman) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #925 (Edwards) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #919 (Montigny) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #908 (DiDomenico) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #887 (Collins) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #884 (Gómez) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #872 (Eldridge) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #863 (Edwards) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #854 (DiDomenico) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #848 (Gómez) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #846 (Gómez) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #820 (Keenan) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #256 (Eldridge) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #130 (Eldridge) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Amendment #10 (Eldridge) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: The following amendments were considered as one and rejected:832, 840, 841, 842, 850, 857, 859, 860, 877, 893, 894, 897, 898, 902, 903, 904, 905, 909, 910, 913, 914, 917, 918, 931, 933, 939, 946, 947, 949, 951, 968, 1000, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1009, 1010, 1011, 1024, 1026, 1030, 1031, 1037, 1040, 1048, 1057 (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: The following amendments were considered as one and adopted:819, 822, 823, 825, 827, 828, 830, 833, 835, 836, 845, 849, 851, 861, 862, 864, 875, 879, 880, 881, 882, 883, 885, 886, 888, 889, 891, 895, 896, 899, 901, 906, 907, 915, 916, 920, 921, 922, 926, 927, 928, 929, 930, 937, 938, 940, 941, 942, 943, 944, 945, 948, 950, 952, 965, 966, 967, 969, 970, 972, 973, 974, 975, 976, 977, 979, 980, 981, 982, 983, 984, 985, 986, 987, 988, 989, 990, 992, 994, 995, 996, 997, 998, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1012, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1017, 1018, 1019, 1020, 1021, 1022, 1023, 1025, 1027, 1028, 1029, 1032, 1033, 1034, 1035, 1038, 1039, 1042, 1043, 1044, 1045, 1046, 1049, 1050, 1051, 1053, 1054, 1055, 1058 (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #745 (Dooner) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #804 (Montigny) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #798 (Miranda) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #797 (Crighton) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #753 (Edwards) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #734 (Velis) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #729 (Crighton) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #728 (Crighton) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #727 (Crighton) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #724 (Crighton) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #703 (Mark) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #702 (Friedman) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #693 (Lovely) adopted -see Roll Call #32 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #689 (Lovely) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #648 (Moore) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #618 (Rausch) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: The following amendments were considered as one and adopted:609, 620, 621, 625, 631, 632, 634, 635, 638, 647, 649, 650, 660, 664, 666, 675, 677, 678, 682, 684, 690, 691, 695, 696, 699, 704, 706, 711, 713, 721, 723, 725, 726, 733, 735, 737, 738, 748, 750, 754, 762, 763, 768, 777, 779, 780, 783, 789 (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: The following amendments were considered as one and rejected:602, 608, 614, 626, 627, 633, 640, 641, 642, 643, 644, 652, 653, 654, 655, 657, 659, 661, 663, 667, 668, 669, 672, 676, 679, 680, 683, 688, 694, 697, 698, 700, 701, 705, 707, 708, 709, 710, 712, 714, 719, 732, 736, 740, 741, 742, 744, 746, 747, 771, 773, 778, 801, 802, 805, 807, 808, 815 (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #120 (Collins) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #88 (Collins) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #65 (Collins) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #62 (Collins) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #268 (Rausch) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #495 (R. Kennedy) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #597 (Driscoll) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #594 (Payano) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #568 (Brady) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #559 (Crighton) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #546 (O'Connor) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #536 (Friedman) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #531 (Lovely) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #528 (Gómez) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #527 (Gómez) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #355 (Barrett) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #526 (Gómez) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #383 (Payano) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #459 (Rausch) adopted -see Roll Call #31 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #493 (R. Kennedy) adopted -see Roll Call #30 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #492 (R. Kennedy) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #490 (Cyr) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #430 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #429 (Keenan) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #413 (Miranda) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #405 (Rausch) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #348 (Rausch) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #311 (Dooner) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #294 (Dooner) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #290 (Dooner) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #279 (Velis) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #576 (Velis) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #564 (Velis) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #276 (Gómez) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #264 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #242 (Lovely) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #241 (Lovely) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #240 (Lovely) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #239 (Lovely) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #237 (Lovely) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #235 (Payano) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #229 (Oliveira) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #222 (Miranda) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #201 (Edwards) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #193 (Edwards) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #523 (DiDomenico) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #543 (Fernandes) adopted -see Roll Call #29 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #452 (Collins) adopted -see Roll Call #28 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #451 (Collins) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #175 (Barrett) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: The following amendments were considered as one and rejected:389, 391, 400, 404, 409, 410, 423, 424, 435, 442, 443, 446, 471, 477, 479, 482, 483, 484, 488, 499, 500, 501, 505, 507, 511, 513, 519, 520, 522, 530, 535, 540, 542, 545, 547, 549, 557, 565, 572, 575, 581, 582, 583, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 590, 592, 593, 595, 598, 599 (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: The following amendments were considered as one and adopted:408, 411, 412, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 431, 432, 434, 436, 439, 440, 441, 444, 460, 462, 465, 473, 475, 478, 485, 486, 489, 497, 502, 506, 509, 512, 516, 521, 525, 529, 532, 533, 537, 538, 539, 548, 558, 561, 562, 563, 567, 569, 573, 577, 578, 591, 596 (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #158 (Friedman) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #168 (Edwards) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #152 (Lovely) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #141 (O'Connor) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #103 (R. Kennedy) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #51 (Keenan) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #46 (Gómez) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #43 (Gómez) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #42 (Gómez) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #6 (Moore) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #28 (Miranda) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #21 (Miranda) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #19 (Miranda) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #18 (Rausch) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #9 (Moore) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: The following amendments were considered as one and adopted:2, 17, 24, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 53, 54, 56, 68, 69, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 92, 93, 94, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104, 106, 107, 108, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 122, 123, 125, 126, 127, 129, 131, 132, 133, 134, 137, 138, 139, 142, 144, 145, 148, 149, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 170, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 181, 182, 184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 191, 194, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 218, 227, 228, 231, 232, 236, 247, 280, 306, 325, 329, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 340, 342, 344, 346, 349, 350, 351, 359, 360, 361, 362, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 372, 374, 375, 379, 380, 381, 384, 385 (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: The following amendments were considered as one and rejected:1, 15, 20, 23, 27, 39, 40, 52, 55, 70, 83, 91, 105, 118, 124, 128, 135, 136, 143, 150, 155, 171, 179, 180, 205, 226, 245, 248, 262, 265, 266, 267, 269, 270, 275, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 291, 292, 293, 304, 305, 307, 308, 310, 314, 320, 321, 326, 330, 338, 339, 341, 343, 347, 353, 354, 357, 358, 363, 365, 371, 382, 386 (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Amendment #249 (Cyr) adopted -see Roll Call #27 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0) (Senate)
- 2025-05-08: Placed in the Orders of the Day for Tuesday, May 20, 2025 pursuant to an order previously adopted (Senate)
- 2025-05-08: Recommended new text for H4001 (Senate)
- 2025-05-08: Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means (Senate)
- 2025-05-05: Order relative to subject matter adopted (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Filed: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S3.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 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the position of firefighter in the town of Dudley (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/S3.pdf)

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- [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)
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