---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to release easements upon certain real property in the town of Stoneham"
description: "An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to release easements upon certain real property in the town of Stoneham"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4844"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4844 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-07-09"
last_action: "2020-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9de0ac06-720b-4a53-ac05-9f34bf312862"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4844"
source_hash: "db46e9a15a4e7c1322859531a0ff9eb10f97d1742826983d0cd8a477b2879526"
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 4844 (191st) — An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to release easements upon certain real property in the town of Stoneham

## 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/H4844.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Michael S. Day — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-09** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2020-07-09** Pending new draft of H748
- **2020-07-09** New draft of H748
- **2020-07-09** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-07-09** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-09** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-16** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2020-07-30** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-07-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-07-31** Enacted - 159 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 254) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted -see Roll Call #276 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-08-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 138 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/9de0ac06-720b-4a53-ac05-9f34bf312862`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).