---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the leasing of a certain parcel of land in the city of Gardner"
description: "An Act relative to the leasing of a certain parcel of land in the city of Gardner"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4980"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4980 (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: "2022-07-06"
last_action: "2022-10-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fee375e-ea43-48d0-b732-12549ee1b17e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4980"
source_hash: "ba7d2e88302b9fce255e35677b4c86873bae70dd06af62c59978706a47bd23cc"
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 4980 (192nd) — An Act relative to the leasing of a certain parcel of land in the city of Gardner

## 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/H4980.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
- Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan D. Zlotnik — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-07-06** Reported from the committee on Ways and Means
- **2022-07-06** Pending new draft of H4309
- **2022-07-06** New draft of H4309
- **2022-07-06** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-07-18** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-18** 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`
- **2022-10-13** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-10-13** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-10-17** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-10-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-10-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-10-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 246 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/4fee375e-ea43-48d0-b732-12549ee1b17e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).