---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to certain affordable housing and branch library space in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston"
description: "An Act relative to certain affordable housing and branch library space in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4532"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4532 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-09-17"
last_action: "2025-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae892cbb-9f0c-4c09-80a6-5df24af8a9b1"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4532"
source_hash: "017a808b6f3db217b873da3e77293474365a5d620295037902aa6df6c059a3bf"
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 4532 (194th) — An Act relative to certain affordable housing and branch library space in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston

## 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/H4532.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Christopher J. Worrell — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Collins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-17** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2025-09-17** Pending new draft of H3932
- **2025-09-17** New draft of H3932
- **2025-09-17** Ordered to a third reading
- **2025-09-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-09-18** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-09-25** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-09-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-09-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-10-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 40 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/ae892cbb-9f0c-4c09-80a6-5df24af8a9b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).