---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel in the Roxbury section of the city of Boston"
description: "An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel in the Roxbury section of the city of Boston"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5159"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5159 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-31"
last_action: "2022-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52b87017-a4fd-4254-bc84-f008ede4ce46"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5159"
source_hash: "26d772f4a8458274d551be2038a39a056fb5c8b2940533cbf1e72fa0de171cef"
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 5159 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a certain parcel in the Roxbury section of the city of Boston

## 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/H5159.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Elizabeth A. Malia — cosponsor (person)
- Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight — 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 H4310
- **2022-07-31** New draft of H4310
- **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, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-08-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 148 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/52b87017-a4fd-4254-bc84-f008ede4ce46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).