---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land in the city of Waltham"
description: "An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land in the city of Waltham"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3975"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3975 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-10-25"
last_action: "2017-12-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c69fcc3-0646-4db8-b711-90ad440bbfb7"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3975"
source_hash: "52a645ac71cbdc4c25990759b295d82fa54ae8d894b543b652bcf1e1938eeb1f"
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 3975 (190th) — An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land in the city of Waltham

## 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/H3975.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-25** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2017-10-25** Pending new draft of H3810
- **2017-10-25** New draft of H3810
- **2017-10-25** Ordered to a third reading
- **2017-11-01** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-11-02** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-30** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-11-30** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-30** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-12-04** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2017-12-11** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2017-12-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-12-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-12-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-12-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-12-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 156 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c69fcc3-0646-4db8-b711-90ad440bbfb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).