---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the commissioner of the division of capital asset management to convey certain former Boston State Hospital land in the city of Boston"
description: "An Act authorizing the commissioner of the division of capital asset management to convey certain former Boston State Hospital land in the city of Boston"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4899"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4899 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-06-21"
last_action: "2022-11-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/735e2942-9b3a-4f90-9cfc-00348913fd65"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4899"
source_hash: "c7b3c4dc1c120b548cba5393382d3fcd194f10aea9a4ce7c5b6364f4689b98c1"
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 4899 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the commissioner of the division of capital asset management to convey certain former Boston State Hospital land in the city of Boston

## 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/H4899.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Russell E. Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Sonia Chang-Diaz — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-21** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2022-06-21** Pending new draft of H4317
- **2022-06-21** New draft of H4317
- **2022-06-21** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-06-23** Rules suspended
- **2022-06-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-27** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-11-07** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-11-07** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-11-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-11-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-11-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-11-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 275 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/735e2942-9b3a-4f90-9cfc-00348913fd65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).