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H5500 • 2025

An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2027 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

An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2027 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

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Sponsor
Ways and Means (H)
Last action
2026-04-27
Official status
Consolidated amendment A (Education and Local Aid, Social Services and Veteran Services and Soldiers' Homes) adopted - 132 YEAS to 23 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 167 )
Effective date
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An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2027 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

An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2027 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

What This Bill Does

  • An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2027 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

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1588 rejected - 25 YEAS to 130 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 158 )

  2. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1590 rejected - 25 YEAS to 131 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 159 )

  3. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1593 rejected - 25 YEAS to 131 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 160 )

  4. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1231 rejected - 25 YEAS to 131 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 161 )

  5. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1232 rejected - 25 YEAS to 131 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 162 )

  6. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1235 pending

  7. 2026-04-27 House

    Point of Order pending

  8. 2026-04-27 House

    Point of Order well taken

  9. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1235 laid aside

  10. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1236 rejected - 25 YEAS to 130 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 163 )

  11. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1237 rejected - 25 YEAS to 131 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 164 )

  12. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1334 rejected - 30 YEAS to 123 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 165 )

  13. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1317 rejected - 27 YEAS to 128 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 166 )

  14. 2026-04-27 House

    Amendment 1336 rejected

  15. 2026-04-27 House

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. 2026-04-27 House

    Rules suspended

  17. 2026-04-27 House

    Read third

  18. 2026-04-27 House

    Consolidated amendment A (Education and Local Aid, Social Services and Veteran Services and Soldiers' Homes) adopted - 132 YEAS to 23 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 167 )

  19. 2026-04-16 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  20. 2026-04-16 House

    Rules suspended

  21. 2026-04-16 House

    Read second

  22. 2026-04-16 House

    Further action postponed until Monday, April 27, 2026

  23. 2026-04-15 House

    Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means

  24. 2026-04-15 House

    Reported on a part of H2

  25. 2026-04-15 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

Official Summary Text

An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2027 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

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Bill H.5500

SECTION 1.

To provide for the operations of the several departments, boards, commissions and institutions of the commonwealth and other services of the commonwealth and for certain permanent improvements and to meet certain requirements of law, the sums set forth in this act, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified, are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027. All sums appropriated under this act, including supplemental and deficiency budgets, shall be expended in a manner reflecting and encouraging a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for members of minority groups, women and persons with a disability. All officials and employees of an agency, board, department, commission or division receiving funds under this act shall take affirmative steps to ensure equality of opportunity in the internal affairs of state government and in their relations with the public, including those persons and organizations doing business with the commonwealth. Each agency, board, department, commission and division of the commonwealth, in spending appropriated sums and discharging its statutory responsibilities, shall adopt measures to ensure equal opportunity in the areas of hiring, promotion, demotion or transfer, recruitment, layoff or termination, rates of compensation, in-service or apprenticeship training programs and all other terms and conditions of employment.

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