republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-2017.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing sewer and water user discounts in the town of Hopkinton	By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2017) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) relative to authorizing the town of Hopkinton to provide discounted fees charged to income-eligible residents for the use of the water and sewer systems of said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.] [as corrected]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 2017	Massachusetts H 2017 (193rd)	bill		enacted	James C. Arena-DeRosa	1	14	0	2023-02-16	2024-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/7e6bf1de-c730-4f17-83c6-08ee4a7d6a96	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H2017	f9d7b3103172ed00e05177307f0e32759e1b3e0ebd4154dde24d8bd160dc02ae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 2017 (193rd) — An Act authorizing sewer and water user discounts in the town of Hopkinton

By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2017) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) relative to authorizing the town of Hopkinton to provide discounted fees charged to income-eligible residents for the use of the water and sewer systems of said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.] [as corrected]

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• James C. Arena-DeRosa — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-16 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2023-02-16 Senate concurred
• 2023-06-12 Hearing scheduled for 06/20/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
• 2023-12-28 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-01-11 Rules suspended
• 2024-01-11 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-08 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-03-04 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-06 Enacted passage
• 2024-03-07 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-03-14 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e6bf1de-c730-4f17-83c6-08ee4a7d6a96. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).