---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to a conservation restriction in the town of Hanson"
description: "By Mr. Cutler of Pembroke, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4631) of Josh S. Cutler (by vote of the town) relative to a conservation restriction in the town of Hanson. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4631"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4631 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Josh S. Cutler"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-03-28"
last_action: "2022-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc1bbab6-f57f-434a-8d75-1311755d2a62"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4631"
source_hash: "37c42e5490d3472e26ffdb6d8c881008dcc6b0e54664210461a2fa183aeae09b"
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 4631 (192nd) — An Act relative to a conservation restriction in the town of Hanson

By Mr. Cutler of Pembroke, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4631) of Josh S. Cutler (by vote of the town) relative to a conservation restriction in the town of Hanson. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/H4631.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Josh S. Cutler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-28** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-31** Senate concurred
- **2022-04-15** Hearing scheduled for 04/20/2022 from 02:30 PM-04:30 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-05-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2022-06-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-07-19** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-21** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-07-28** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-07-28** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-28** Enacted - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 241 ) `passage`
- **2022-07-28** Enacted -see Roll Call #225 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2022-07-28** Laid before the Governor
- **2022-08-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 133 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/bc1bbab6-f57f-434a-8d75-1311755d2a62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).