The $425 million emergency shelter system bill that the Massachusetts House of Representatives will vote on Thursday features temporary reforms including “stricter eligibility requirements, along with increased security measures” that House Speaker Ronald Mariano said could ensure the program can endure financially in the long term.

The bill would still need a vote from the majority-Democrat state Senate and Democratic Gov. Maura Healey before it could take effect.

House Democratic leaders are seeking to dramatically cap the number of families the system can hold, and for how long, at a time when thousands migrant and homeless families have relied on the system for housing.

A House spending bill would shrink the state-run emergency family shelter system and impose restrictions based on immigration status. Why it matters: The proposal's restrictions would reshape the 42-year-old right-to-shelter law that until recently has covered broad swaths of unhoused individuals.