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H5501 • 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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2026-07-01
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Reported, in part, by H5555
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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. 2026-07-01 House

    Reported, in part, by H5555

  2. 2026-05-28 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2026-05-28 House

    House NON-concurred in the Senate amendment

  4. 2026-05-28 House

    Committee of conference appointed - (Michlewitz-Diggs-Smola)

  5. 2026-05-28 Senate

    Rules supended

  6. 2026-05-28 Senate

    Senate insisted on its amendment

  7. 2026-05-28 Senate

    Committee of conference appointed (Rodrigues-Comerford-O'Connor), in concurrence

  8. 2026-05-21 Senate

    Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S4

  9. 2026-05-21 Senate

    Reprinted, as amended, see S3100

  10. 2026-05-21 Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  11. 2026-05-21 Senate

    Read third

  12. 2026-05-21 Senate

    Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #185 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0)

  13. 2026-05-19 Senate

    Read second

  14. 2026-05-07 Senate

    Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S4

  15. 2026-05-07 Senate

    Placed in the Orders of the Day for Tuesday, May 19, 2026 pursuant to an order previously adopted

  16. 2026-05-04 Senate

    Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means

  17. 2026-04-29 House

    H5500 , published as amended

  18. 2026-04-29 House

    Passed to be engrossed - 149 YEAS to 9 NAYS ( See YEA and NAY No. 191 )

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.5501

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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