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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to supply water to the town of Ashland"
description: "By Mr. Lewis of Framingham, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jack Patrick Lewis relative to the provision of water services to the town of Ashland by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3852"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3852 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack Patrick Lewis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-04-18"
last_action: "2019-11-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6cd9111-5d02-400a-ba00-798f4d665bef"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3852"
source_hash: "549f48cb699b2ece2c84d914150b6a0a7222ed2eea236eba7d9f92637cafc084"
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 3852 (191st) — An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to supply water to the town of Ashland
By Mr. Lewis of Framingham, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jack Patrick Lewis relative to the provision of water services to the town of Ashland by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
## 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/H3852.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Jack Patrick Lewis — primary (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-04-18** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-30** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-03** Senate concurred
- **2019-07-09** Hearing scheduled for 07/16/2019 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-2
- **2019-09-23** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-09-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-09-26** Rules suspended
- **2019-09-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-10-28** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-10-30** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-11-06** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-11-06** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-11-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-11-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-11-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-11-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-11-13** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 112 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/f6cd9111-5d02-400a-ba00-798f4d665bef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).