---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Cambridge to use certain land for general municipal purposes and the installation of subsurface geothermal wells"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3768) [Local Approval Received]. July 26, 2021."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3996"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3996 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise C. Garlick"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-07-26"
last_action: "2022-02-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0c2d396-903f-4ef0-bcf0-05ae749c1572"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3996"
source_hash: "e970fe0eaf11070f3db507e22d1ea72a2fe6ccdb20209171851f6391a20a002b"
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 3996 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the city of Cambridge to use certain land for general municipal purposes and the installation of subsurface geothermal wells

Substituted by the House, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3768) [Local Approval Received]. July 26, 2021.

## 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/192/H3996.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Denise C. Garlick — primary (person)
- Marjorie C. Decker — cosponsor (person)
- Sal N. DiDomenico — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-07-26** Substituted for H3768
- **2021-07-26** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2021-07-29** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2021-10-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-11-22** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-11-22** Read third `reading-3`
- **2021-11-22** Amended (DiDomenico) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in the place thereof the text of S2586 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-11-22** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2021-11-24** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2021-12-20** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2022-01-19** Enacted - 159 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 126 ) `passage`
- **2022-01-26** Enacted -see Roll Call #121 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2022-01-26** Laid before the Governor
- **2022-02-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 19 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0c2d396-903f-4ef0-bcf0-05ae749c1572`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).