---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Nantucket to sell, convey or otherwise dispose of a portion of certain land situated in the town of Nantucket held for cemetery purposes"
description: "By Representative Fernandes of Falmouth and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4717) of Dylan Fernandes (by vote of the town) that the town of Nantucket be authorized to sell, convey or otherwise dispose of a portion of land currently held for cemetery purposes in said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4717"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4717 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-09"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebdda699-effa-4eaa-b522-04a4ec95c1b9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4717"
source_hash: "0893312c14b5cb2fb53489a386d5842d9d6ca4a0427354bed85d9e87e1cb3f10"
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 4717 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Nantucket to sell, convey or otherwise dispose of a portion of certain land situated in the town of Nantucket held for cemetery purposes

By Representative Fernandes of Falmouth and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4717) of Dylan Fernandes (by vote of the town) that the town of Nantucket be authorized to sell, convey or otherwise dispose of a portion of land currently held for cemetery purposes in said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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/H4717.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Dylan Fernandes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-07-09** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-11** Senate concurred
- **2018-07-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-07-17** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-24** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-25** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-07-30** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-07-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 486) `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - Roll Call #550 [YEAS 36 to NAYS 0] `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 180 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/ebdda699-effa-4eaa-b522-04a4ec95c1b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).