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Bill An Act authorizing the town of Swansea to enter into a lease agreement for Medeiros Farm By Representative Haddad of Somerset and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4197) of Patricia A. Haddad, Michael J. Rodrigues and Steven S. Howitt (by vote of the town) that the town of Swansea be authorized to enter into a lease agreement for Medeiros Farm. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 192nd H 4197 Massachusetts H 4197 (192nd)
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Massachusetts H 4197 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Swansea to enter into a lease agreement for Medeiros Farm

By Representative Haddad of Somerset and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4197) of Patricia A. Haddad, Michael J. Rodrigues and Steven S. Howitt (by vote of the town) that the town of Swansea be authorized to enter into a lease agreement for Medeiros Farm. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

  • Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)
  • Patricia A. Haddad — cosponsor (person)
  • Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-10-12 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
  • 2021-10-14 Senate concurred
  • 2021-11-08 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2021-11-15 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
  • 2021-11-16 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2022-05-16 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2022-05-19 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2022-06-16 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2022-07-14 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2022-07-14 Read third reading-3
  • 2022-07-14 Amendment #1 (Rodrigues) adopted amendment-passage
  • 2022-07-14 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2998 amendment-passage
  • 2022-07-14 Passed to be engrossed passage
  • 2022-07-14 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
  • 2022-07-14 Rules suspended
  • 2022-07-14 House concurred in the Senate amendment
  • 2022-07-14 Enacted - 154 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 217 ) passage
  • 2022-07-18 Enacted -see Roll Call #205 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) passage
  • 2022-07-18 Laid before the Governor
  • 2022-07-25 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 114 of the Acts of 2022 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3ad1ce25-3230-49d6-a361-187e6f7e425c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).