---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land to the school department in the city of Westfield"
description: "An Act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land to the school department in the city of Westfield"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5156"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5156 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-31"
last_action: "2022-10-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/308fd4cd-f9ea-49ce-815c-a7b545b473fe"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5156"
source_hash: "b92a253c9c5d1a711f7d63008251e019056b235ca6f962c779b2fbbcbe133530"
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 5156 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land to the school department in the city of Westfield

## 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/H5156.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly W. Pease — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-07-31** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2022-07-31** Pending new draft of H5133
- **2022-07-31** New draft of H5133
- **2022-07-31** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-31** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-11** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-08-11** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-08-15** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-10-20** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2022-10-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-10-24** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-10-24** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-10-24** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-10-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 249 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/308fd4cd-f9ea-49ce-815c-a7b545b473fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).