---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Water Supply District of Acton to enter into a lease, license or other disposition of land held for water supply purposes for the construction, operation and maintenance of a solar energy generating and energy storage facility"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4683). July 31, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4923"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4923 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-07-31"
last_action: "2020-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c818810-fc64-4433-a0ab-c67e48967557"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4923"
source_hash: "5a02ac5e8069817b43a03e623f93a8607685fefd7db6fc46bed4ef97b7ed0add"
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 4923 (191st) — An Act authorizing the Water Supply District of Acton to enter into a lease, license or other disposition of land held for water supply purposes for the construction, operation and maintenance of a solar energy generating and energy storage facility

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4683). July 31, 2020.

## 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/H4923.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Tami L. Gouveia — cosponsor (person)
- Tami L. Gouveia — cosponsor (person)
- Theodore C. Speliotis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-31** Substituted for H4683
- **2020-07-31** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Read, rules suspended, read second `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-07-31** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-07-31** Read third `reading-3`
- **2020-07-31** Bills in the Third Reading report accepted
- **2020-07-31** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted - 158 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 261) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted -see Roll Call #281 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-08-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 153 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/4c818810-fc64-4433-a0ab-c67e48967557`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).