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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the release of certain land in Rowley from operation of an agricultural covenant"
description: "An Act relative to the release of certain land in Rowley from operation of an agricultural covenant"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4853"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4853 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-30"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9282c4ec-623e-434b-a210-377db54fdec2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4853"
source_hash: "20c03d084e7fe5ab3988498f0def12928796b658254b3fe9d675421705879a9e"
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 4853 (190th) — An Act relative to the release of certain land in Rowley from operation of an agricultural covenant
## 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/H4853.pdf)
## Sponsors
- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-07-30** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2018-07-30** Pending new draft of H4759
- **2018-07-30** New draft of H4759
- **2018-07-30** Ordered to a third reading
- **2018-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-31** 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 and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 503) `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - Roll Call #563 [YEAS 36 to NAYS 0] `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 226 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/9282c4ec-623e-434b-a210-377db54fdec2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).