---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to certain affordable housing in the city of Chelsea"
description: "An Act relative to certain affordable housing in the city of Chelsea"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4368"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4368 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-02-05"
last_action: "2020-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b1b3ecc-cdd3-4b31-b865-db5875fae10e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4368"
source_hash: "72994d4f37e9649b35ded852b861942be4de9e01fcb7d97ddc1f1d86b3dd3202"
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 4368 (191st) — An Act relative to certain affordable housing in the city of Chelsea

## 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/191/H4368.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Daniel J. Ryan — cosponsor (person)
- RoseLee Vincent — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-05** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2020-02-05** Pending new draft of H3979
- **2020-02-05** New draft of H3979
- **2020-02-05** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-02-05** Rules suspended
- **2020-02-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-02-10** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-04** Discharged to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2020-07-28** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-28** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-07-29** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-07-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-08-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 135 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b1b3ecc-cdd3-4b31-b865-db5875fae10e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).