Massachusetts H 4151: An Act protecting consumers by prohibiting blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization in the provision of Internet service

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FILED ON: 5/22/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4151
House bill No. 4150, as amended and passed to be engrossed by the House. May 21, 2025.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)
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An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain
existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purposes, which are
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.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:

1 SECTION 1. To provide for supplementing certain items in the general appropriation act
2 and other appropriation acts for fiscal year 2025, the sums set forth in section 2 are hereby
3 appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise in this act or in
4 those appropriation acts, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in this
5 act or in those appropriation acts, and subject to the laws regulating the disbursement of public
6 funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. These sums shall be in addition to any amounts
7 previously appropriated and made available for the purposes of those items. These sums shall be
8 made available through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.
9 SECTION 2.

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10 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF VETERANS’ SERVICES
11 1410-0400 Veterans’ Benefits ............................................................ $5,800,000
12 OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER
13 1599-3384 Settlements and Judgments................................................ $28,917,460
14 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF EDUCATION
15 Department of Early Education and Care
16 3000-3060 DCF and DTA Related Child Care....................................... $95,554,342
17 Education and Transportation Fund......100%
18 3000-4060 Income-Eligible Child Care................................................ $94,015,214
19 Education and Transportation Fund......100%
20 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
21 1595-1068 Medical Assistance Trust Fund........................................... $134,498,420
22 Department of Transitional Assistance
23 4400-1004 Healthy Incentives Program............................................... $7,500,000
24 4405-2000 State Supplement to the Social Security Income program............. $3,000,000
25 4408-1000 Emergency Aid to Elderly, Disabled and Children..................... $1,000,000
26 Department of Public Health

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27 4513-1012 Women Infants and Children Program Manufacturer Rebates....... $400,000
28 4590-0912 Western Massachusetts Hospital Retained Revenue................... $1,200,000
29 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HOUSING AND LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
30 Office of the Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities
31 7004-9316 Residential Assistance for Families in Transition...................... $42,910,506
32 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
33 State Police
34 8100-0006 Private Detail Retained Revenue......................................... $7,750,000
35 8100-1004 State Police Crime Laboratory............................................ $4,193,083
36 Military Division
37 8700-0001 Military Division............................................................ $593,539
38 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF AGING AND INDEPENDENCE
39 Office of the Secretary
40 9110-1630 Home Care Services......................................................... $60,000,000
41 SECTION 2A. To provide for certain unanticipated obligations of the commonwealth, to
42 provide for an alteration of purpose for current appropriations, and to meet certain requirements
43 of law, the sums set forth in this section are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless
44 specifically designated otherwise in this section, for the several purposes and subject to the

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45 conditions specified in this section, and subject to the laws regulating the disbursement of public
46 funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. Except as otherwise stated, these sums shall be
47 made available through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.
48 EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
49 Reserves
50 1599-1776 For a reserve to support celebrations of the United States’ semiquincentennial
51 anniversary; provided, that funds may be made available for statewide initiatives to promote the
52 anniversary and for grants to municipalities for public safety, transportation and logistical costs
53 associated with anniversary celebrations; and provided further, that at the direction of the
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