---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to grant easements in certain parcels of land to the city of Lowell."
description: "An Act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to grant easements in certain parcels of land to the city of Lowell."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4772"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4772 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-11-19"
last_action: "2025-11-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cbf3980-56dc-452d-9f77-8ff0755b8b39"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4772"
source_hash: "9303eef22c97cf99769edb1f12af84210cd8aaefebc9b67de88a1382ae90a2b9"
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 4772 (194th) — An Act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to grant easements in certain parcels of land to the city of Lowell.

## 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/H4772.pdf)

## Votes

- H. 4772 On Enactment Land Taking — **153–0** (pass) · lower
- Passing the bill to be enacted — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Rodney M. Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- Tara T. Hong — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-19** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2025-11-19** Pending new draft of H4183
- **2025-11-19** New draft of H4183
- **2025-11-19** Ordered to a third reading
- **2025-11-19** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-19** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-11-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-11-19** Enacted - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 116 ) `passage`
- **2025-11-19** Enacted -see Roll Call #114 (Yeas 37 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2025-11-19** Laid before the Governor
- **2025-11-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 70 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/3cbf3980-56dc-452d-9f77-8ff0755b8b39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).