---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the Lake Quinsigamond Commission"
description: "An Act relative to the Lake Quinsigamond Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4039"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4039 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-11-20"
last_action: "2018-02-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd5e727e-bd0b-4c79-94f8-28ec8ddee4fe"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4039"
source_hash: "5f32574a0f9fa82822e1ae4f4807311b6a83ffbcf46fb01912bc1e8c3a43aad5"
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 4039 (190th) — An Act relative to the Lake Quinsigamond Commission

## 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/190/H4039.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-11-20** Reported from the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture
- **2017-11-20** New draft of H438
- **2017-11-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-11-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-11-22** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-22** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-01-08** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-01-29** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-29** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-01-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-02-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-02-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 20 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd5e727e-bd0b-4c79-94f8-28ec8ddee4fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).