---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to a certain parcel of land in the town of Townsend"
description: "An Act relative to a certain parcel of land in the town of Townsend"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5048"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5048 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-20"
last_action: "2022-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b80130be-213d-4d25-8f8f-df24f05bb2b0"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5048"
source_hash: "faa0a9c1f02a85366a5de3286a05c10466b27f3acdb8e0ea191b1943b9b13364"
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 5048 (192nd) — An Act relative to a certain parcel of land in the town of Townsend

## 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/H5048.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Anne M. Gobi — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-07-20** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2022-07-20** Pending new draft of H4921
- **2022-07-20** New draft of H4921
- **2022-07-20** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-07-21** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-21** 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`
- **2022-07-28** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-07-28** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-07-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-07-28** Enacted - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 244 ) `passage`
- **2022-07-28** Enacted -see Roll Call #227 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2022-07-28** Laid before the Governor
- **2022-08-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 142 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/b80130be-213d-4d25-8f8f-df24f05bb2b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).