---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Brookline to convey a parcel of land to the Pierce School Building Committee to install subsurface geothermal wells"
description: "Substituted, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House No. 4723) [Local Approval Received]. July 30, 2024."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4944"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4944 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas P. Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-30"
last_action: "2024-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c33b50ba-f412-4957-8d9e-fdaf27730321"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4944"
source_hash: "d6a354b9f950c1526514b4df93b5167350ececea31fe34979fa771522f9f45b5"
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 4944 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Brookline to convey a parcel of land to the Pierce School Building Committee to install subsurface geothermal wells

Substituted, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House No. 4723) [Local Approval Received]. July 30, 2024.

## 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/H4944.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Thomas P. Walsh — primary (person)
- Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-07-30** Substituted for H4723
- **2024-07-30** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-07-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-07-31** Read third (title changed) and engrossed `reading-3`
- **2024-07-31** Enacted - 157 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 182 ) `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Enacted -see Roll Call #239 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2024-08-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 171 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/c33b50ba-f412-4957-8d9e-fdaf27730321`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).