---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing sewer and water user discounts in the town of Hopkinton"
description: "By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2017) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) relative to authorizing the town of Hopkinton to provide discounted fees charged to income-eligible residents for the use of the water and sewer systems of said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.] [as corrected]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 2017"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2017 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James C. Arena-DeRosa"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2024-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e6bf1de-c730-4f17-83c6-08ee4a7d6a96"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H2017"
source_hash: "f9d7b3103172ed00e05177307f0e32759e1b3e0ebd4154dde24d8bd160dc02ae"
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 2017 (193rd) — An Act authorizing sewer and water user discounts in the town of Hopkinton

By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2017) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) relative to authorizing the town of Hopkinton to provide discounted fees charged to income-eligible residents for the use of the water and sewer systems of said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.] [as corrected]

## 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/193/H2017.pdf)

## Sponsors

- James C. Arena-DeRosa — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Senate concurred
- **2023-06-12** Hearing scheduled for 06/20/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2023-12-28** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-01-11** Rules suspended
- **2024-01-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-08** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-03-04** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e6bf1de-c730-4f17-83c6-08ee4a7d6a96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).