---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to dissolve the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority and transfer its lands to the city of Newburyport"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3698). March 5, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4545"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4545 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-03-05"
last_action: "2020-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/132a15b7-d532-45c3-b400-2b508b5020ae"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4545"
source_hash: "c6c5b9d407b8b6378cd1a7af665343df08ed5f5152788a04eefeedb88361419a"
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 4545 (191st) — An Act to dissolve the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority and transfer its lands to the city of Newburyport

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3698). March 5, 2020.

## 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/H4545.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)
- James M. Kelcourse — cosponsor (person)
- Theodore C. Speliotis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-05** Substituted for H3698
- **2020-03-05** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-03-09** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2020-06-01** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-06-01** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-06-04** Enacted - 155 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 177) `passage`
- **2020-06-11** Enacted -see Roll Call #192 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-06-11** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-06-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 96 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/132a15b7-d532-45c3-b400-2b508b5020ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).