---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to certain land in the town of Winchester"
description: "An Act relative to certain land in the town of Winchester"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5142"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5142 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-29"
last_action: "2022-08-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1807faf2-4390-47ca-829c-5221484124c4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5142"
source_hash: "ef7a176683f1238d28867f33379cecdeadf9af6af5f77f490234644c0fad30ea"
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 5142 (192nd) — An Act relative to certain land in the town of Winchester

## 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/H5142.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-07-29** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-29** Committee recommended bill ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-07-29** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-30** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-07-31** Enacted - 153 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY, No. 260) `passage`
- **2022-07-31** Enacted -see Roll Call #238 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2022-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2022-08-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 171 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/1807faf2-4390-47ca-829c-5221484124c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).