---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to municipal light plant participation in green communities"
description: "An Act relative to municipal light plant participation in green communities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4351"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4351 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-24"
last_action: "2022-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1567950c-71a7-4ea6-b326-0a0dbdda089b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4351"
source_hash: "3bbf7f365a49bf9087040268ba6ecff3bc0d4f64c582e3b7a5fcff58cc1f851b"
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 4351 (192nd) — An Act relative to municipal light plant participation in green communities

## 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/192/H4351.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy — primary (person)
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Mathew J. Muratore — cosponsor (person)
- Richard M. Haggerty — cosponsor (person)
- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas P. Walsh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-24** Reported from the committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy
- **2022-01-24** New draft of H3327
- **2022-01-24** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-01-26** Rules suspended
- **2022-01-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-03-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-03-24** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-07-14** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-14** Read second `reading-2`
- **2022-07-14** Amended (Lewis-Tarr) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3006 `amendment-passage`
- **2022-07-14** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-07-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-14** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-26** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-26** House concurred in the amendment with a further amendment
- **2022-08-18** Rules suspended
- **2022-08-18** Senate concurred in the House amendment with a still further amendment
- **2022-08-22** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-09-22** House concurred in the Senate still further amendment
- **2022-09-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-09-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-09-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 230 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1567950c-71a7-4ea6-b326-0a0dbdda089b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).