---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for tenant member appointment to the board of the Needham Housing Authority"
description: "By Ms. Garlick of Needham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4964) of Denise C. Garlick (by vote of the town) relative to the appointment of a tenant member to the board of the Needham Housing Authority in the town of Needham. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4964"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4964 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise C. Garlick"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-06-30"
last_action: "2022-11-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4896d6a5-8dc7-4863-9ff9-030b6bf21692"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4964"
source_hash: "5eeb93a4cefebdc322ff825cbc76039685aa5a89bd190c48eb308efd53a0f2bd"
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 4964 (192nd) — An Act providing for tenant member appointment to the board of the Needham Housing Authority

By Ms. Garlick of Needham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4964) of Denise C. Garlick (by vote of the town) relative to the appointment of a tenant member to the board of the Needham Housing Authority in the town of Needham. 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/H4964.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Denise C. Garlick — primary (person)
- Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-30** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-07** Senate concurred
- **2022-07-14** Hearing scheduled for 07/20/2022 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2022-07-25** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-07-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2022-07-28** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-08-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-08-25** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-11-17** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-11-17** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-11-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-11-21** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 277 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/4896d6a5-8dc7-4863-9ff9-030b6bf21692`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).