House enacts $300 million supplemental appropriations bill for fiscal 2026
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Summary
After a Ways and Means recommendation, the Massachusetts House passed and enacted House Bill 5348, a $300,000,000 supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2026 to supplement existing appropriations and respond to recent federal actions.
The Massachusetts House enacted House Bill 5348, an act making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 totaling $300,000,000, after the Committee on Ways and Means recommended passage. The clerk read the committee report describing the bill as intended to supplement certain existing appropriations and to respond to recent federal actions.
The House suspended its rules to consider the measure and took the bill through second and third readings. On third reading the chair called the question; the presiding officer announced that the ayes had it and the bill passed to be engrossed. On final passage, under constitutional division voting procedures, the chair recorded votes by division as reported and declared the bill passed to be enacted.
The committee report listed the total appropriation as $300,000,000. The record shows committee recommendation and successive chamber votes but does not detail line-item allocations or departmental recipients in the floor proceeding; those specifics were not read into the House record during this session and therefore are not described here.
Following the enactment, the House adopted an order setting the next formal session to reconvene Wednesday next at 11:00 a.m. and then adjourned.
