---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the authority of the Martha's Vineyard Commission and the town of Oak Bluffs to exchange parcels of land"
description: "By Representative Fernandes of Falmouth and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4321) of Dylan A. Fernandes and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Oak Bluffs be authorized to convey a certain parcel of land to the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4321"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4321 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e74d0a4-3e57-4f42-89a6-5a55e74ada26"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4321"
source_hash: "a31d6acae47807c9560eb2942182622270adcde8c32e9f1a130dbfd8eae3ceef"
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 4321 (192nd) — An Act relative to the authority of the Martha's Vineyard Commission and the town of Oak Bluffs to exchange parcels of land

By Representative Fernandes of Falmouth and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4321) of Dylan A. Fernandes and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Oak Bluffs be authorized to convey a certain parcel of land to the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/H4321.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Dylan A. Fernandes — cosponsor (person)
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-10** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Senate concurred
- **2022-03-14** Reporting date extended to Friday April 29, 2022, pending concurrence
- **2022-03-17** House concurred
- **2022-03-30** Hearing scheduled for 04/05/2022 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-04-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-04-21** Rules suspended
- **2022-04-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-07-13** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-13** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-07-29** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-07-29** Read third `reading-3`
- **2022-07-29** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3077 `amendment-passage`
- **2022-07-29** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-07-29** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-30** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2022-07-30** Enacted - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 258 ) `passage`
- **2022-07-30** Enacted -see Roll Call #235 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2022-07-30** Laid before the Governor
- **2022-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 161 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
- **2022-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 161 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/7e74d0a4-3e57-4f42-89a6-5a55e74ada26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).