---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act regarding a parcel of land in Holyoke"
description: "An Act regarding a parcel of land in Holyoke"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4873"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4873 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-07-22"
last_action: "2020-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50d54129-48e1-4a55-a7dc-e4850ad5fa86"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4873"
source_hash: "2919e3a95012a92d63106828b584939299ee7c16c806aebeef0c0b0de7b0ee25"
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 4873 (191st) — An Act regarding a parcel of land in Holyoke

## 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/H4873.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government — primary (person)
- Aaron Vega — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-22** Reported from the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government
- **2020-07-22** New draft of H4832
- **2020-07-22** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-07-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-07-28** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-28** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-07-29** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2020-07-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted - 159 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 259) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted -see Roll Call #277 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-08-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 137 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/50d54129-48e1-4a55-a7dc-e4850ad5fa86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).