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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act authorizing the town of Westford to release agricultural preservation restrictions over land owned by Westford Gateway, LLC"
+description: "An Act authorizing the town of Westford to release agricultural preservation restrictions over land owned by Westford Gateway, LLC"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
+legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
+session: "194th"
+identifier: "H 4362"
+citation: "Massachusetts H 4362 (194th)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-07-30"
+last_action: "2025-11-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98eac788-8f54-495c-8b4f-73cdeb7ad28e"
+source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4362"
+source_hash: "121b46d511053da4ea25e1f74351f602394d504de84a9e339d9339fe28a1089b"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
+---
+
+# Massachusetts H 4362 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Westford to release agricultural preservation restrictions over land owned by Westford Gateway, LLC
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4362.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- H. 4362 On Enactment Land Taking — **156–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
+- James Arciero — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-07-30** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
+- **2025-07-30** Pending new draft of H3282
+- **2025-07-30** New draft of H3282
+- **2025-07-30** Ordered to a third reading
+- **2025-07-31** Rules suspended
+- **2025-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-08-04** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-11-17** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2723 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-11-17** Rules suspended
+- **2025-11-17** Read second `reading-2`
+- **2025-11-17** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2723 `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-11-17** Ordered to a third reading
+- **2025-11-19** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
+- **2025-11-19** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-11-19** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
+- **2025-11-19** House concurred in the Senate amendment
+- **2025-11-19** Enacted - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 115 ) `passage`
+- **2025-11-19** Enacted -see Roll Call #115 (Yeas 37 to Nays 0) `passage`
+- **2025-11-19** Laid before the Governor
+- **2025-11-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 75 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98eac788-8f54-495c-8b4f-73cdeb7ad28e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
+