---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing a surface and sub-surface easement at the Chestnut Hill Reservation located in the Brighton section of the City of Boston"
description: "An Act authorizing a surface and sub-surface easement at the Chestnut Hill Reservation located in the Brighton section of the City of Boston"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4803"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4803 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-24"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b822986-b26c-4d6b-becc-04d522f0a354"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4803"
source_hash: "cba27ef56bfa9e4d579746a6eabc4c9e79f8473b2d4686daaf21cee65098e520"
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 4803 (190th) — An Act authorizing a surface and sub-surface easement at the Chestnut Hill Reservation located in the Brighton section of the City of Boston

## 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/H4803.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-07-24** Reported from the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight
- **2018-07-24** New draft of H4775
- **2018-07-24** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-30** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-30** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-30** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-07-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 505) `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - Roll Call #560 [YEAS 36 to NAYS 0] `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 191 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/0b822986-b26c-4d6b-becc-04d522f0a354`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).