---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to bidding requirements for a certain affordable housing project in the town of Acton"
description: "By Mr. Sena of Acton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 5010) of Danillo A. Sena, Tami L. Gouveia and James B. Eldridge (by vote of the town) relative to bidding requirements for a certain affordable housing project in the town of Acton. Housing. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5010"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5010 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danillo A. Sena"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-11"
last_action: "2022-12-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db91ce7a-c7e2-42e8-a6c1-180780fd6957"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5010"
source_hash: "3f80f98c16332184b3702e00cf9b20b2fad22f0346e12dbcf58704b310f5bc75"
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 5010 (192nd) — An Act relative to bidding requirements for a certain affordable housing project in the town of Acton

By Mr. Sena of Acton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 5010) of Danillo A. Sena, Tami L. Gouveia and James B. Eldridge (by vote of the town) relative to bidding requirements for a certain affordable housing project in the town of Acton. Housing. [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/H5010.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Danillo A. Sena — primary (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Tami L. Gouveia — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-07-11** Referred to the committee on Housing `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-13** Senate concurred
- **2022-08-02** Hearing scheduled for 08/05/2022 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2022-08-18** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-09-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-09-06** Rules suspended
- **2022-09-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-10-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-11-03** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-11-21** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-11-21** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-11-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-11-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-01** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 284 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/db91ce7a-c7e2-42e8-a6c1-180780fd6957`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).