---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending Chapter 336 of the Acts of 1939 concerning the establishment of the Lynnfield Center Water District"
description: "By Representative Jones of North Reading, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 9) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and Brendan P. Crighton for legislation to further regulate the Lynnfield Center Water District. Environment and Natural Resources."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3808"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3808 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley H. Jones, Jr."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-03-22"
last_action: "2024-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aecf21c1-5a60-40d1-9e07-921705a54f6a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3808"
source_hash: "beda593dea52c0f6459135cd2ed2e898a63b4844080fb12c0de5fe460bdd735a"
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 3808 (193rd) — An Act amending Chapter 336 of the Acts of 1939 concerning the establishment of the Lynnfield Center Water District

By Representative Jones of North Reading, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 9) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and Brendan P. Crighton for legislation to further regulate the Lynnfield Center Water District. Environment and Natural Resources.

## 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/H3808.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — primary (person)
- Brendan P. Crighton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-22** Transmitted to the Secretary of State
- **2023-04-24** Returned from the Secretary of State
- **2023-04-25** Referred to the committee on Environment and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Senate concurred
- **2023-09-14** Hearing scheduled for 09/27/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2023-09-14** Hearing rescheduled to 09/27/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2024-01-18** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-01-22** Rules suspended
- **2024-01-22** 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; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-07-25** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-25** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-07-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-07-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 145 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/aecf21c1-5a60-40d1-9e07-921705a54f6a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).