---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for improvements to the metropolitan water supply system"
description: "An Act providing for improvements to the metropolitan water supply system"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4967"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4967 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-31"
last_action: "2024-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73dcf4f1-c0bf-4bd0-a96a-614d787dcdbf"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4967"
source_hash: "4fa7aac2e37eb1562d3ce0325d79de15975b2f19c20dccd8568d311cab721755"
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 4967 (193rd) — An Act providing for improvements to the metropolitan water supply system

## 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/H4967.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Alice Hanlon Peisch — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Barrett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-07-31** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2024-07-31** Pending new draft of H4861
- **2024-07-31** New draft of H4861
- **2024-07-31** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-01** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-08-01** Enacted - 157 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 193 ) `passage`
- **2024-08-01** Enacted -see Roll Call #243 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2024-08-01** Laid before the Governor
- **2024-08-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 172 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/73dcf4f1-c0bf-4bd0-a96a-614d787dcdbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).