---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Watertown to adopt an affordable housing linkage fee"
description: "Substituted, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 5009) [Local Approval Received]. November 10, 2022."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5383"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5383 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise C. Garlick"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-11-10"
last_action: "2022-12-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3113934e-cef3-4ed8-9bad-1501912bcf6f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5383"
source_hash: "9094a907b987e26c93f8c1aed745e23d81f61402e79b266198d244da9b9c5af6"
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 5383 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the city of Watertown to adopt an affordable housing linkage fee

Substituted, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 5009) [Local Approval Received]. November 10, 2022.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Sponsors

- Denise C. Garlick — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-11-10** Substituted for H5009
- **2022-11-10** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-11-14** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-12-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-12-05** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-12-08** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-12-08** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 302 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/3113934e-cef3-4ed8-9bad-1501912bcf6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).