---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to water connections in the town of Eastham"
description: "By Ms. Peake of Provincetown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3908) of Sarah K. Peake and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Eastham be authorized to establish a water connection assistance program for property owners. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3908"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3908 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sarah K. Peake"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-06-19"
last_action: "2020-01-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a66d6b8d-de66-4592-b93f-d0103a25ad73"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3908"
source_hash: "57fff93e68a4763cd63065e7305eade2c5e2137d17d5b9549113b8ab45d236ec"
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 3908 (191st) — An Act relative to water connections in the town of Eastham

By Ms. Peake of Provincetown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3908) of Sarah K. Peake and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Eastham be authorized to establish a water connection assistance program for property owners. 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/191/H3908.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Sarah K. Peake — primary (person)
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah K. Peake — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-19** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** Senate concurred
- **2019-07-23** Hearing scheduled for 07/30/2019 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-1
- **2019-08-01** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-08-05** Rules suspended
- **2019-08-05** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-10-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-10-07** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-10-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-01-02** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-01-02** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-01-06** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-01-06** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-01-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a66d6b8d-de66-4592-b93f-d0103a25ad73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).