S2540
An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects
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Bill overview
This bill, S.2540, authorizes the Massachusetts state government to supplement existing appropriations for the fiscal year 2025. It provides funding for a variety of activities and projects across the state. Due to the urgency of the appropriations needed, the bill was passed as an emergency measure to ensure immediate implementation.
Key provisions
- Provides supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year 2025.
- Funds various state activities and projects.
- Includes amendments from the House of Representatives and Senate.
- Requires a conference committee to reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions.
- Addresses changes in law necessary to support the appropriations.
- Authorizes funding for unspecified ‘other important public purposes’.
Who is affected
- State government agencies
- Massachusetts residents
- Various sectors receiving state funding
Notable changes
- The House and Senate versions of the bill differed, requiring a conference committee to resolve the discrepancies.
- The House initially proposed striking all text after the enacting clause and inserting a different set of appropriations (H.4265).
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Bill S.2540 194th (Current)
An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects
Senate, June 18, 2025 -- Text of the Senate Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects (Senate, No. 2540) (being the text of Senate, No. 2529, printed as amended).
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Emergency Preamble
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to to make supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and to make certain changes in law, each of which is immediately necessary to carry out those appropriations or to accomplish other important public purposes, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
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Bill History
Displaying 16 actions for Bill S.2540
| Date | Branch | Action |
| 6/18/2025 | Senate | Text of S2529, printed as amended |
| 6/18/2025 | Senate | Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #53 (Yeas 38 to Nays 2) |
| 6/23/2025 | House | Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means |
| 7/14/2025 | House | Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H4265, and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling |
| 7/14/2025 | House | Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment pending |
| 7/14/2025 | House | Rules suspended |
| 7/14/2025 | House | Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) |
| 7/14/2025 | House | Ordered to a third reading |
| 7/14/2025 | House | Rules suspended |
| 7/14/2025 | House | Read third and passed to be engrossed |
| 7/14/2025 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 7/14/2025 | Senate | Senate NON-concurred in the House amendment |
| 7/14/2025 | Senate | Committee of conference (Rodrigues-Comerford-O'Connor) appointed |
| 7/14/2025 | House | House insisted on its amendment |
| 7/14/2025 | House | Committee of conference appointed - (Michlewitz-Ferrante-Smola), in concurrence |
| 7/31/2025 | Senate | Reported, in part, by S2575 |
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