---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Eastham, acting by and through its board of selectmen, to convey a conservation restriction on a certain parcel of land to the Eastham conservation foundation, inc"
description: "By Representative Peake of Provincetown and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4012) of Sarah K. Peake and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Eastham be authorized to convey a conservation restriction on a certain parcel of land to the Eastham Conservation Foundation, Inc. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4012"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4012 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-07-24"
last_action: "2024-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7618b24c-d21e-4d16-ae3b-0b5afb7deda6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4012"
source_hash: "abaac4b5461f2f6d7805c37104d6f1373cb69f544c683e1981af75895251eac1"
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 4012 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Eastham, acting by and through its board of selectmen, to convey a conservation restriction on a certain parcel of land to the Eastham conservation foundation, inc

By Representative Peake of Provincetown and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4012) of Sarah K. Peake and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Eastham be authorized to convey a conservation restriction on a certain parcel of land to the Eastham Conservation Foundation, Inc. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/193/H4012.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah K. Peake — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-07-24** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-26** Senate concurred
- **2023-09-19** Hearing scheduled for 09/26/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2023-11-13** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-12-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-12-11** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-16** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-18** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-02-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-07-29** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-07-29** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-30** Enacted - 158 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 147 ) `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Enacted -see Roll Call #227 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2024-08-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 162 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7618b24c-d21e-4d16-ae3b-0b5afb7deda6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).