---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to a condominium conversion ordinance in the city of Salem"
description: "By Representative Cruz of Salem, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3722) of Manny Cruz and Joan B. Lovely (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to a condominium conversion ordinance in the city of Salem. Housing. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3722"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3722 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Manny Cruz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-04-06"
last_action: "2024-11-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/840672ad-20fb-4a54-b26e-1280b6a592ba"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3722"
source_hash: "58377862bd7383ea9ebf9fd618652ae92a3dde4e21b4a9b56148665ef5918e61"
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 3722 (193rd) — An Act relative to a condominium conversion ordinance in the city of Salem

By Representative Cruz of Salem, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3722) of Manny Cruz and Joan B. Lovely (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to a condominium conversion ordinance in the city of Salem. Housing. [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/193/H3722.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Manny Cruz — primary (person)
- Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)
- Shirley B. Arriaga — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-06** Referred to the committee on Housing `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-10** Senate concurred
- **2023-10-16** Hearing scheduled for 10/24/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
- **2024-02-08** Reporting date extended to Thursday April 18, 2024, pending concurrence
- **2024-03-04** No further action take on the extension to Thursday, April 18, 2024
- **2024-03-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-04-11** Rules suspended
- **2024-04-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-28** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-30** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-06-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-10-24** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-10-24** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-10-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-10-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-11-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 228 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/840672ad-20fb-4a54-b26e-1280b6a592ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).