---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing Old Rochester Regional School District to enter into renewable energy agreements"
description: "An Act authorizing Old Rochester Regional School District to enter into renewable energy agreements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4435"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4435 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Education"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c79ce597-9eb9-4e9a-8455-7a24e87279de"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4435"
source_hash: "3102911055fb06c4b2f4fa1ada9740081b3726b09e67081d3026f78677b7fac0"
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 4435 (191st) — An Act authorizing Old Rochester Regional School District to enter into renewable energy agreements

## 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/H4435.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Education — primary (person)
- Marc R. Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)
- William M. Straus — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-20** Reported from the committee on Education
- **2020-02-20** New draft of H4248
- **2020-02-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-03-09** Rules suspended
- **2020-03-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-03-16** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2020-06-18** Rules suspended
- **2020-06-18** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-06-22** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-06-22** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-06-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-06-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-07-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 112 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/c79ce597-9eb9-4e9a-8455-7a24e87279de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).