---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey certain parcels of land in the town of Lancaster"
description: "An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey certain parcels of land in the town of Lancaster"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4701"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4701 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-05-30"
last_action: "2024-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ae765c9-9705-47a4-89ad-f09bd336a396"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4701"
source_hash: "ed24e430b3cf0031f7195a6e6c99c09fa1dd16358c50d1dd01e0ea01ce07dc3f"
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 4701 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey certain parcels of land in the town of Lancaster

## 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/H4701.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
- Meghan K. Kilcoyne — 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 H4300
- **2024-05-30** New draft of H4300
- **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, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-07-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-07-31** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **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 156 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/8ae765c9-9705-47a4-89ad-f09bd336a396`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).