---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the release of certain land in the town of Cummington from the operation of an agricultural preservation restriction"
description: "An Act authorizing the release of certain land in the town of Cummington from the operation of an agricultural preservation restriction"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4224"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4224 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-11-20"
last_action: "2019-11-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cd798b0-c5f0-4da6-bc84-662a11a54e71"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4224"
source_hash: "63040a448fb8041f60b154b9120626c022c755ac932e01f2e6d75965707699d0"
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 4224 (191st) — An Act authorizing the release of certain land in the town of Cummington from the operation of an agricultural preservation restriction

## 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/H4224.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-11-20** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2019-11-20** Pending new draft of H3651
- **2019-11-20** New draft of H3651
- **2019-11-20** Ordered to a third reading
- **2019-11-20** Rules suspended
- **2019-11-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-11-20** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-11-20** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-11-20** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-11-20** Enacted - 152 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No.141) `passage`
- **2019-11-21** Enacted - see Roll Call #152 [39 YEAS - 0 NAYS] `passage`
- **2019-11-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 127 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/3cd798b0-c5f0-4da6-bc84-662a11a54e71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).