---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act Authorizing the City of Newton to Lease the John W. Weeks School for a Term of Years Not Exceeding Ninety-Nine Years and to Grant a Lease Extension to the Current Lessee of the Former John W. Weeks School without Undertaking a Procurement Process"
description: "An Act Authorizing the City of Newton to Lease the John W. Weeks School for a Term of Years Not Exceeding Ninety-Nine Years and to Grant a Lease Extension to the Current Lessee of the Former John W. Weeks School without Undertaking a Procurement Process"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4262"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4262 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-03-05"
last_action: "2018-09-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eec02d77-228c-45a7-afc4-b2a3f04905e6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4262"
source_hash: "01e4c6bf21a5cc24e02b8fdb97199a30da9317883bd3bdb7449dc443c31c5cee"
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 4262 (190th) — An Act Authorizing the City of Newton to Lease the John W. Weeks School for a Term of Years Not Exceeding Ninety-Nine Years and to Grant a Lease Extension to the Current Lessee of the Former John W. Weeks School without Undertaking a Procurement Process

## 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/H4262.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-05** New draft of H4089
- **2018-03-05** Reported from the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight
- **2018-03-05** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-03-09** Rules suspended
- **2018-03-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-04-11** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-11** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-04-17** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-05-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-08-30** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-08-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-09-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-09-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 242 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/eec02d77-228c-45a7-afc4-b2a3f04905e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).