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Bill	An Act amending Chapter 250 of the Acts of 2016 to include the city of Salem designated port area as part of the Salem Harbor port area	By Representative Cruz of Salem and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4398) of Manny Cruz and Joan B. Lovely (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to include the city of Salem designated port area as part of the Salem Harbor Port Area. Transportation. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4398	Massachusetts H 4398 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	16	0	2024-02-12	2024-12-04	openstates	ocd-bill/d7ce9411-603a-4952-8b67-8fcd8c564c26	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4398	69eb1066f01c16aa90fc4f5200f73a2f6197286a5a99aedd7baf3330b7082599	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4398 (193rd) — An Act amending Chapter 250 of the Acts of 2016 to include the city of Salem designated port area as part of the Salem Harbor port area

By Representative Cruz of Salem and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4398) of Manny Cruz and Joan B. Lovely (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to include the city of Salem designated port area as part of the Salem Harbor Port Area. Transportation. [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

• Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)
• Manny Cruz — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-12 Referred to the committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Senate concurred
• 2024-03-06 Hearing scheduled for 03/12/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-03-18 Reporting date extended to Friday March 29, 2024, pending concurrence
• 2024-03-28 Senate concurred
• 2024-04-16 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-13 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-05-13 Rules suspended
• 2024-05-13 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-08-29 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-09-03 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-11-21 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-11-21 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-11-25 Enacted passage
• 2024-11-25 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-12-04 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 246 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d7ce9411-603a-4952-8b67-8fcd8c564c26. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).