---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon"
description: "By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1024) of Edward R. Philips for legislation to authorize the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon. Environment and Natural Resources."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 1024"
citation: "Massachusetts H 1024 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward R. Philips"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-11-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d676bbb4-c29d-4c87-aab3-b9fe90bd7050"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H1024"
source_hash: "a58749d5eca811dd28a942ec3d6c908b51652ea0cc44d1df69c56fc4aa15d42b"
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 1024 (194th) — An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon

By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1024) of Edward R. Philips for legislation to authorize the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon. Environment and Natural Resources.

## 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/194/H1024.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Edward R. Philips — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Referred to the committee on Environment and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Senate concurred
- **2025-04-23** Hearing scheduled for 05/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
- **2025-07-10** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-07-21** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-04** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment
- **2025-10-20** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-20** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Senate Rules), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-10-22** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-03** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2025-11-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-11-06** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-11-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-11-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-11-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 62 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d676bbb4-c29d-4c87-aab3-b9fe90bd7050`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).