---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act updating the linkage exaction program in the city of Medford"
description: "By Representative Donato of Medford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4252) of Paul J. Donato (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to establish a linkage exaction program in the city of Medford. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4252"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4252 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul J. Donato"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-07-07"
last_action: "2025-11-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ef74912-5af4-45f8-8047-6843fc0f56bb"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4252"
source_hash: "374aa46bb4c360ccec4055ef32423def33cc013a00a4543a3ab163dc2e824f78"
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 4252 (194th) — An Act updating the linkage exaction program in the city of Medford

By Representative Donato of Medford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4252) of Paul J. Donato (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to establish a linkage exaction program in the city of Medford. 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/194/H4252.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul J. Donato — primary (person)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-07** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-10** Senate concurred
- **2025-07-17** Hearing scheduled for 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium
- **2025-07-29** Hearing rescheduled to 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-06:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
- **2025-07-29** Hearing rescheduled to 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-06:15 PM in Gardner Auditorium and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
- **2025-07-29** Hearing rescheduled to 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-06:05 PM in Gardner Auditorium and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
- **2025-08-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-09-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-09-04** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-09-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-09-25** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-10-23** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-10-30** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-10-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-03** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-11-03** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-11-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ef74912-5af4-45f8-8047-6843fc0f56bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).