---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act releasing certain land in Northfield from the operation of an agricultural covenant"
description: "An Act releasing certain land in Northfield from the operation of an agricultural covenant"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4757"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4757 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-16"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a42bbefd-b8f3-4446-9988-2d12953586c2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4757"
source_hash: "8c795014c3ebd19bac0d91df789e1b8a89998bfad99c947402a41468abd60f08"
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 4757 (190th) — An Act releasing certain land in Northfield from the operation of an agricultural covenant

## 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/H4757.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-07-16** Reported from the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture
- **2018-07-16** New draft of H4674
- **2018-07-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-31** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-31** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-31** Read, rules suspended, read second `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-07-31** Ordered to a third reading
- **2018-07-31** Bills in the Third Reading report accepted
- **2018-07-31** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-31** Amendment adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-01** Rules suspended
- **2018-08-01** Bills in the Third Reading report accepted
- **2018-08-01** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - 150 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 521) `passage`
- **2018-08-01** Enacted -see Roll Call #577 (Yeas 35 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2018-08-01** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 224 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/a42bbefd-b8f3-4446-9988-2d12953586c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).