---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the division of capital asset management and maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land to the town of Danvers"
description: "An Act authorizing the division of capital asset management and maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land to the town of Danvers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5162"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5162 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-31"
last_action: "2022-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dcf47502-dbf9-4012-b76d-d098d2d0419b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5162"
source_hash: "7409029fbee88fcccaee97a623625cf34b27aa6e0eed00dd4f2191915ae75498"
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 5162 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the division of capital asset management and maintenance to convey a certain parcel of land to the town of Danvers

## 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/H5162.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)
- Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight — cosponsor (person)
- Sally P. Kerans — 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 H5032
- **2022-07-31** New draft of H5032
- **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`
- **2022-08-04** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-09-08** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-09-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-09-12** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-09-12** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-09-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-09-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-09-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 216 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/dcf47502-dbf9-4012-b76d-d098d2d0419b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).