---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the transfer of Martha's Vineyard Land Bank Commission Land in Oak Bluffs"
description: "An Act authorizing the transfer of Martha's Vineyard Land Bank Commission Land in Oak Bluffs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5049"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5049 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-20"
last_action: "2022-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c40e0ec-8964-4a6e-9908-d19737e1cd90"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5049"
source_hash: "0854aa71e67155b23888c135e6cf78e5363b7c3b585687bcc64cea27ec498fb2"
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 5049 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the transfer of Martha's Vineyard Land Bank Commission Land in Oak Bluffs

## 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/H5049.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Dylan A. Fernandes — 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 H4958
- **2022-07-20** New draft of H4958
- **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 (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-28** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-29** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-29** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2022-07-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-07-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-07-29** Enacted - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 247 ) `passage`
- **2022-07-29** Enacted -see Roll Call #232 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2022-07-29** Laid before the Governor
- **2022-08-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 152 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/8c40e0ec-8964-4a6e-9908-d19737e1cd90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).