---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to boat excise tax revenue for the town of Chatham waterfront"
description: "An Act relative to boat excise tax revenue for the town of Chatham waterfront"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3909"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3909 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Revenue"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-09-18"
last_action: "2018-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/792545c1-b6ab-428c-9a2e-2131ab9c49ef"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3909"
source_hash: "b5d9f57f91291a8d061d63f3955be607c90414db3103cc962145a799dcd738a0"
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 3909 (190th) — An Act relative to boat excise tax revenue for the town of Chatham waterfront

## 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/H3909.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Revenue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-09-18** Reported from the committee on Revenue
- **2017-09-18** New draft of H2635
- **2017-09-18** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-09-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-09-21** Rules suspended
- **2017-09-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-02** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-10-04** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-10-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-06-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-06-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-06-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-06-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-07-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 126 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/792545c1-b6ab-428c-9a2e-2131ab9c49ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).