---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to certain affordable housing and cultural space in the Brighton section of the city of Boston"
description: "An Act relative to certain affordable housing and cultural space in the Brighton section of the city of Boston"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 5442"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5442 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2026-05-20"
last_action: "2026-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4dd614ab-665d-4247-8050-9b4c8ab8ff02"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5442"
source_hash: "387c78a0c4311f44bf419bd71c13c5a5e33a2aa35bd9764e47e7429a9d90b926"
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 5442 (194th) — An Act relative to certain affordable housing and cultural space in the Brighton section of the city of Boston

## 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/H5442.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Michael J. Moran — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-05-20** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2026-05-20** Pending new draft of H4415
- **2026-05-20** New draft of H4415
- **2026-05-20** Ordered to a third reading
- **2026-05-20** Rules suspended
- **2026-05-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-21** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2026-06-11** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-11** Rules suspended
- **2026-06-11** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2026-06-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-06-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-06-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 110 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4dd614ab-665d-4247-8050-9b4c8ab8ff02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).