---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing the North Sherborn Water and Sewer District"
description: "By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston and Senator Rausch, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 9) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) that the town of Sherborn be authorized to establish the North Sherborn Water and Sewer District in said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4627"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4627 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-05-06"
last_action: "2024-12-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4422cb8d-bb46-41b5-ab35-d2ec392ad040"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4627"
source_hash: "304360156d3ef1755a98c38797d96a2a3ef37528d3bcf48539516556ec77f033"
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 4627 (193rd) — An Act establishing the North Sherborn Water and Sewer District

By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston and Senator Rausch, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 9) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) that the town of Sherborn be authorized to establish the North Sherborn Water and Sewer District in said town. 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/H4627.pdf)

## Sponsors

- James C. Arena-DeRosa — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-06** Transmitted to the Secretary of State
- **2024-06-05** Returned from the Secretary of State
- **2024-06-05** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-10** Senate concurred
- **2024-06-18** Hearing scheduled for 06/18/2024 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2024-07-01** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-07-29** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-08-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-29** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-12-12** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-12-12** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-12-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-12-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-12-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 274 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/4422cb8d-bb46-41b5-ab35-d2ec392ad040`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).