---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey certain parcels of land to the city of Lowell"
description: "An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey certain parcels of land to the city of Lowell"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4700"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4700 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-05-30"
last_action: "2024-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ce4b04a-5aba-433e-a31b-6ec676e7af4c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4700"
source_hash: "c2dec6434e2aa6564260c395884df5b209696b88e8f20151912b2ebaf857c45c"
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 4700 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey certain parcels of land to the city of Lowell

## 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/H4700.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Rady Mom — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney M. Elliott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-30** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2024-05-30** Pending new draft of H4117
- **2024-05-30** New draft of H4117
- **2024-05-30** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended
- **2024-05-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-06-03** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-25** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2896 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-25** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-25** Read second `reading-2`
- **2024-07-25** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof he text of S2896 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-07-25** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-07-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-29** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-31** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-08-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 158 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/5ce4b04a-5aba-433e-a31b-6ec676e7af4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).