An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2024 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects
This bill provides additional funding to various state agencies and programs for the 2024 fiscal year, with some funds available until June 30, 2025. It allocates money to support specific initiatives such as tax abatements for veterans and the elderly, payments to MassHealth, school breakfast programs, and financial aid for families transitioning to housing. The legislation also establishes new reserves for purposes including online lottery start-up costs, treatment for men with substance use disorders, mosquito-borne disease prevention, and support for county sheriff offices. Furthermore, it directs enhanced Medicaid payments to financially strained community health centers and increases reimbursement rates for early education providers to cover educator salaries and benefits.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Oct 2024
Committee Review
Dec 2024
House Passage
Dec 2024
Senate Passage
Dec 2024
Signed into Law
Dec 2024
Introduced Oct 17, 2024
Signed Dec 4, 2024
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
23
Key actions
12
Committee
6
Amendments
2
Dec 4, 2024
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 248 of the Acts of 2024
executive
Dec 2, 2024
Upper · Passed
Enacted and laid before the Governor
upper
Dec 2, 2024
Lower · Passed
Enacted
lower
Dec 2, 2024
Lower · Passed
Emergency preamble adopted
lower
Dec 2, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate concurred in the House further amendment
upper
Dec 2, 2024
Lower · Passed
House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment, see text of House document numbered 5132
lower
Dec 2, 2024
Committee
Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading
lower
Oct 24, 2024
Introduced
Reprinted as amended, see S2974
upper
Oct 24, 2024
Upper · Passed
Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2968
upper
Oct 24, 2024
Upper · Passed
Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2968
upper
Oct 17, 2024
Committee
Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means
upper
Oct 17, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed
lower
Oct 17, 2024
Lower · Passed
Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
lower
Oct 17, 2024
Lower · Passed
Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
lower
Oct 17, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported by the committee on House Ways and Means
lower
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