---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating and transferring certain land in the town of Norfolk for conservation, open space, water supply protection, and recreation purposes"
description: "An Act designating and transferring certain land in the town of Norfolk for conservation, open space, water supply protection, and recreation purposes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4920"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4920 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-07-30"
last_action: "2020-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7e98db5-ad0e-4a23-8b3a-d8319b4ba5bf"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4920"
source_hash: "08cb4ab7a54d591cbb0ef74bf5e873f145d6f773d3a0ed5b9623ee6a08bcf4bb"
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 4920 (191st) — An Act designating and transferring certain land in the town of Norfolk for conservation, open space, water supply protection, and recreation purposes

## 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/H4920.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)
- Shawn Dooley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-30** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2020-07-30** Pending new draft of H3915
- **2020-07-30** New draft of H3915
- **2020-07-30** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-31** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2020-07-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted - 158 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 260) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted -see Roll Call #280 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-08-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 148 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/f7e98db5-ad0e-4a23-8b3a-d8319b4ba5bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).