---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land to the city of Newton"
description: "An Act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land to the city of Newton"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4892"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4892 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-07-27"
last_action: "2020-08-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9778cc0a-3b11-4fdc-89b9-3885455f43ad"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4892"
source_hash: "2f51aace7f2128e45bbf25dbd4118e479f5bf5a629a3df5088b0b84051213b73"
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 4892 (191st) — An Act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land to the city of Newton

## 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/H4892.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Cynthia Stone Creem — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Lawn, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth B. Balser — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-27** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2020-07-27** Pending new draft of H4364
- **2020-07-27** New draft of H4364
- **2020-07-27** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-07-28** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-28** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-28** 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 `reading-3`
- **2020-07-31** Bills in the Third Reading report accepted
- **2020-07-31** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-08-03** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-08-03** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-08-06** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-08-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 157 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/9778cc0a-3b11-4fdc-89b9-3885455f43ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).