---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Ayer select board to acquire a water line easement on land of the department of conservation and recreation"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Ayer select board to acquire a water line easement on land of the department of conservation and recreation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5161"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5161 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-31"
last_action: "2022-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4bd8335-ed1e-4819-91fc-a7bb221478df"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5161"
source_hash: "ee9b68cadaeaf94e1791f80d30aec04b4f96504d08661b353c0383f9673deb05"
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 5161 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Ayer select board to acquire a water line easement on land of the department of conservation and recreation

## 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/H5161.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Danillo A. Sena — 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 H4811
- **2022-07-31** New draft of H4811
- **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`
- **2022-08-01** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-08-01** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-08-01** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-08-01** Enacted - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 283 ) `passage`
- **2022-08-01** Enacted -see Roll Call #258 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2022-08-01** Laid before the Governor
- **2022-08-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 184 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/f4bd8335-ed1e-4819-91fc-a7bb221478df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).