---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing a simplified procedure for the layout and acceptance of subdivision roads in the City of Marlborough"
description: "By Representatives Gregoire of Marlborough and Gentile of Sudbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4439) of Danielle W. Gregoire (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to providing a simplified procedure for the layout and acceptance of subdivision roads in the City of Marlborough. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4439"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4439 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-08-21"
last_action: "2025-12-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44f23025-6543-4393-807b-e9c22dc2c1d9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4439"
source_hash: "86850473d29a80ced316ba972ef740a663dc8c0c558777ea6f7ad9c35dfa5741"
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 4439 (194th) — An Act providing a simplified procedure for the layout and acceptance of subdivision roads in the City of Marlborough

By Representatives Gregoire of Marlborough and Gentile of Sudbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4439) of Danielle W. Gregoire (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to providing a simplified procedure for the layout and acceptance of subdivision roads in the City of Marlborough. 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/H4439.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Danielle W. Gregoire — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-08-21** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-25** Senate concurred
- **2025-09-04** Hearing scheduled for 09/04/2025 from 03:10 PM-01:30 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2025-09-22** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-10-06** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-10-23** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-27** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-11-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-26** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-11-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-12-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-12-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-12-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 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/44f23025-6543-4393-807b-e9c22dc2c1d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).