---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the release of a restriction on land in the city of Taunton"
description: "Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation relative to the release of a restriction on land in the city of Taunton."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3712"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3712 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-05-22"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5354ec7a-cd92-4732-92ef-68b7bd242fca"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3712"
source_hash: "918c769d40cc0e3b65b8858e0df2e51c022ff8b4f2b5cb8efb703b93cdbae0fb"
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 3712 (190th) — An Act relative to the release of a restriction on land in the city of Taunton

Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation relative to the release of a restriction on land in the city of Taunton.

## 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/190/H3712.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-05-22** Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-23** Senate concurred
- **2017-06-07** Hearing scheduled for 06/12/2017 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
- **2018-01-22** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-30** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-05-30** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-26** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-07-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-07-31** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 188 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5354ec7a-cd92-4732-92ef-68b7bd242fca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).