---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to care, custody, and control and uses of Wing Island"
description: "By Representative Flanagan of Dennis and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3875) of Christopher Richard Flanagan and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Brewster be authorized to transfer a certain parcel of land in said town to the conservation commission of said town for conservation and open space purposes. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3875"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3875 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-05-25"
last_action: "2024-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/517628b4-357f-4295-8bcf-23c537ac70d7"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3875"
source_hash: "c86ea36a2830e6269f8be52b5efbc1db10e877e2ea5d99f0f90a266c37fd59c2"
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 3875 (193rd) — An Act relative to care, custody, and control and uses of Wing Island

By Representative Flanagan of Dennis and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3875) of Christopher Richard Flanagan and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Brewster be authorized to transfer a certain parcel of land in said town to the conservation commission of said town for conservation and open space purposes. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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/H3875.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Christopher Richard Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-25** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-30** Senate concurred
- **2023-07-11** Hearing scheduled for 07/18/2023 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
- **2023-10-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-11-13** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-11-13** Rules suspended
- **2023-11-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-11-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-11-29** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-03-25** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-03** Enacted - 155 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 82 ) `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Enacted -see Roll Call #125 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Laid before the Governor
- **2024-04-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 75 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/517628b4-357f-4295-8bcf-23c537ac70d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).