---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing the DHY Clean Waters Community Partnership for the towns of Dennis, Harwich and Yarmouth"
description: "An Act establishing the DHY Clean Waters Community Partnership for the towns of Dennis, Harwich and Yarmouth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3948"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3948 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-07-01"
last_action: "2019-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f855942-358f-4878-935d-67588602e6b9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3948"
source_hash: "3e10f5d1f8e4af850640b981ae078a6bb77fe29d4dd892ccd1181df40413d1e0"
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 3948 (191st) — An Act establishing the DHY Clean Waters Community Partnership for the towns of Dennis, Harwich and Yarmouth

## 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/191/H3948.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-01** Reported from the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture
- **2019-07-01** New draft of H896
- **2019-07-01** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-07-08** Rules suspended
- **2019-07-08** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-08-19** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-08-22** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-09-30** Rules suspended
- **2019-09-30** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-10-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-10-03** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-10-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 88 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f855942-358f-4878-935d-67588602e6b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).