---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to convey a certain parcel of land in the town of Stoneham"
description: "An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to convey a certain parcel of land in the town of Stoneham"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4643"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4643 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-10-22"
last_action: "2026-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/142c58fd-14fd-469b-b99e-5a7c922fcdf2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4643"
source_hash: "36b047270f5780239be0fefde882c0369ebe172ea4d2ab8bf103a559a655f4d2"
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 4643 (194th) — An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to convey a certain parcel of land in the town of Stoneham

## 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/H4643.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Michael S. Day — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-22** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2025-10-22** Pending new draft of H3312
- **2025-10-22** New draft of H3312
- **2025-10-22** Ordered to a third reading
- **2025-10-22** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-23** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-26** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-26** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2026-03-02** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-03-02** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-03-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 37 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/142c58fd-14fd-469b-b99e-5a7c922fcdf2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).