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House roll call #327 · 2017–2018 session · April 23, 2018

State budget for fiscal year 2019

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What they voted on

Add a proposed change (amendment) to the bill

Official wording: H.4400, On Amendment 31

Official amendment title: Regional School District Foundation Budget Commission (amendment #31, filed by Ferguson, Kimberly N.) · amendments on malegislature.gov

Who filed H.4400

Sponsor House Committee on Ways and Means

Committees often rewrite bills. The legislators who filed the original versions are listed on malegislature.gov.

40 Yes114 No2 did not vote

Amendment rejected

Every member's vote

Voted yes (40)
Voted no (114)
Did not vote (2)

What it means

The House Ways and Means committee's proposed state budget for fiscal year 2019 (July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019), with total appropriations of $40,983,440,827.00 listed in the committee's report. It funds line items for every part of state government, including courts, health and human services and MassHealth, education, transportation, public safety and the environment; it sets Chapter 70 school aid at $4,871,530,948 and lottery and gaming aid to cities and towns at $1,098,945,897. It also has outside sections that change state laws, including creating an office of health equity, an Early Education and Care Workforce Council and special study commissions, along with rules on capital gains tax transfers, hospital and nursing home payments, and the timing of sales tax revenue.

Source: official text and history of H.4400 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.

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