---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the conveyance of easements by the city of Fitchburg to the town of Westminster"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4474) [Local Approval Received]. June 29, 2022."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4946"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4946 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise C. Garlick"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-06-29"
last_action: "2022-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e560dba9-e610-4148-b348-588632075c2a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4946"
source_hash: "e5cb622863aeb24c4d68f8f273c20f3a2090ac25d1fff6336ae2c48b922c0357"
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 4946 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the conveyance of easements by the city of Fitchburg to the town of Westminster

Substituted by the House, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4474) [Local Approval Received]. June 29, 2022.

## 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/H4946.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Denise C. Garlick — primary (person)
- Anne M. Gobi — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan D. Zlotnik — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Kushmerek — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-29** Substituted for H4474
- **2022-06-29** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-06-30** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-07-29** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-07-29** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-29** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-30** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2022-07-30** Enacted - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 256 ) `passage`
- **2022-07-30** Enacted -see Roll Call #237 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2022-07-30** Laid before the Governor
- **2022-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 162 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
- **2022-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 162 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/e560dba9-e610-4148-b348-588632075c2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).