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H5568 • 2025

An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds for transportation purposes to be issued by the Commonwealth

An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds for transportation purposes to be issued by the Commonwealth

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Sponsor
Ways and Means (H)
Last action
2026-07-09
Official status
Referred to Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds for transportation purposes to be issued by the Commonwealth

An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds for transportation purposes to be issued by the Commonwealth Status: Referred to Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

What This Bill Does

  • An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds for transportation purposes to be issued by the Commonwealth Status: Referred to Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill History

  1. 2026-07-09 Senate

    Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading

  2. 2026-07-08 House

    Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means

  3. 2026-07-08 House

    Pending new draft of H5519

  4. 2026-07-08 House

    New draft of H5519

  5. 2026-07-08 House

    Ordered to a third reading

  6. 2026-07-08 House

    Rules suspended

  7. 2026-07-08 House

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

Official Summary Text

An Act providing for the terms of certain bonds for transportation purposes to be issued by the Commonwealth
Status:
Referred to Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill H.5568

Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the bonds that the state treasurer may issue pursuant to section 10 of chapter 100 of the acts of 2026 shall be issued for a term not to exceed 30 years. All such bonds shall be payable not later than June 30, 2066, as recommended by the governor in a message to the general court dated June 18, 2026 under section 3 of Article LXII of the Amendments to the Constitution.

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