Bill Commons

MA H 3038

in committee

An Act to establish a downtown vitality fund to strengthen local business districts and main streets

Massachusetts · 2025-2026 Regular Session (194th General Court) · lower

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did MA H 3038 pass?

Not yet. MA H 3038 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-03-09): Accompanied a study order, see H5196

What is MA H 3038 about?

By Representative Cabral of New Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3038) of Antonio F. D. Cabral and others for legislation to establish a downtown vitality fund to strengthen local business districts and main streets funded by a portion of the sales tax. Revenue.

Who sponsors MA H 3038?

Antonio F. D. Cabral is the primary sponsor of MA H 3038, joined by 3 cosponsors.

Description

By Representative Cabral of New Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3038) of Antonio F. D. Cabral and others for legislation to establish a downtown vitality fund to strengthen local business districts and main streets funded by a portion of the sales tax. Revenue.

Introduced
—
Latest action
2026-03-09 — Accompanied a study order, see H5196
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Antonio F. D. Cabralprimary
  • Rodney M. Elliottcosponsor
  • Christopher Hendrickscosponsor
  • Mary S. Keefecosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-03-09

    Accompanied a study order, see H5196

  2. 2025-10-21

    Hearing scheduled for 10/28/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-2

  3. 2025-02-27

    Senate concurred

  4. 2025-02-27

    Referred to the committee on Revenue

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

Official source

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3038

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:22:56.590024Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=MA&identifier=H 3038. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.