5 Things to Know:House members filed 1,650 amendments, 155 more than in FY 2025 and 84 more than in FY 2024.The fiscal impact of all amendments if $2.45 billion; however, this estimate may be conservative because the fiscal impact of all amendments...

On January 24th, Governor Healey released her administration’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The $58.13 billion spending plan included critical investments in childcare, healthcare, and transportation; as well as $20.3 billion in gross...

On June 19, Governor Baker filed H. 4806, a one month, $5.25 billion spending authorization to keep the government operational through July 31 that the legislature has since enacted. In this interim budget, the guidance indicates that for each...

In November 2019, An Act Relative to Educational Opportunity for Students (Chapter 132 of the Acts of 2019) was signed into law by Governor Charlie Baker. Better known as the Student Opportunity Act (SOA), the new law represented the...

Last week, MTF published a fiscal update brief reviewing Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 tax revenue collections, the current budget balance estimate, and the Healey-Driscoll administration’s closeout supplemental budget. It included MTF’s recommendation for...

State budget officials and policymakers have reached the point during the calendar year when it is necessary to balance the demands of three fiscal years at one time. The Healey administration’s closeout supplemental budget proposal for Fiscal Year ...

The same day that Governor Healey signed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget, while trimming $130.2 million in spending, she filed a supplemental budget proposing several fiscal management tools to help the state address revenue volatility or unmet...

On July 4th, Governor Healey signed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget; sending back $130.2 million in spending vetoes. Inclusive of the Governor’s budget actions, line-item spending in the FY 2026 budget would total $60.9 billion, a $3.1 billion (5.4...

The House and Senate are preparing to enact a Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget, totaling $61.03 billion in line-item spending. The compromise budget includes $443.4 million less in spending than the final House budget and $395.1 million less in spending...

Last week, MTF published its first Conference Committee preview for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget, Reconciling Revenue and Spending Differences Between the House and Senate Final Budgets. That brief summarized the spending and policy proposals put...