---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the assessment of betterments for improvements to private ways in the town of Sandwich"
description: "By Representative Hunt of Sandwich and Senator deMacedo, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3711) of Randy Hunt and Viriato M. deMacedo (by vote of the town) that the town of Sandwich be authorized to establish a betterments assessment fund for improvements to private ways. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3711"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3711 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-05-22"
last_action: "2018-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8909078-b052-4e2d-854a-01742847383f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3711"
source_hash: "23d3e3647f68e9fe65dc198f3ddcdd3a402085383889daea19ea75400f2b448e"
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 3711 (190th) — An Act relative to the assessment of betterments for improvements to private ways in the town of Sandwich

By Representative Hunt of Sandwich and Senator deMacedo, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3711) of Randy Hunt and Viriato M. deMacedo (by vote of the town) that the town of Sandwich be authorized to establish a betterments assessment fund for improvements to private ways. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/190/H3711.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Randy Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Viriato M. deMacedo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-05-22** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-23** Senate concurred
- **2017-09-20** Hearing scheduled for 10/31/2017 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2017-10-20** Hearing scheduled for 10/31/2017 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2017-10-24** Hearing canceled – new hearing TBD
- **2017-12-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-12-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-12-28** Rules suspended
- **2017-12-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-08-06** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-08-09** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-09-13** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-09-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-17** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-09-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-09-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 247 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8909078-b052-4e2d-854a-01742847383f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).