---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city known as the town of Barnstable to grant an easement"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4839). July 28, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4906"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4906 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-07-28"
last_action: "2020-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c186cd0d-e39e-4603-bec0-622267630fbc"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4906"
source_hash: "15ac8d05aabb0b17a2fc54463a3c52337d414464a48fcb20600be9fce1cd40f0"
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 4906 (191st) — An Act authorizing the city known as the town of Barnstable to grant an easement

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4839). July 28, 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/H4906.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
- Randy Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Theodore C. Speliotis — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy R. Whelan — cosponsor (person)
- William L. Crocker, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-28** Substituted for H4839
- **2020-07-28** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **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 (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-31** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-31** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2020-07-31** Enacted - 159 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 262) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted -see Roll Call #278 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-08-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 140 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/c186cd0d-e39e-4603-bec0-622267630fbc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).