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Bill	An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon	By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Edward R. Philips and Michael F. Rush for legislation to authorize the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon. Environment and Natural Resources.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 4009	Massachusetts H 4009 (194th)	bill		enacted	Edward R. Philips	1	22	0	2025-03-31	2025-11-06	openstates	ocd-bill/c65079a5-88b2-494b-8261-60c516939145	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4009	f893d327e938ab3e3c69432d88aafdfe22df591b0926a18baa146cd6a2aabbe9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4009 (194th) — An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon

By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Edward R. Philips and Michael F. Rush for legislation to authorize the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon. Environment and Natural Resources.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Edward R. Philips — primary (person)
• Michael F. Rush — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-31 Referred to the committee on House Rules referral-committee
• 2025-04-07 Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Environment and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 Senate concurred
• 2025-04-23 Hearing scheduled for 05/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
• 2025-07-10 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-21 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2025-07-21 Rules suspended
• 2025-07-21 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-07-31 Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-08-04 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules referral-committee
• 2025-10-20 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment
• 2025-10-20 Rules suspended
• 2025-10-20 Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Senate Rules), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2025-10-23 Motion to reconsider prevailed
• 2025-10-23 Amendment (Senate Rules) rejected amendment-failure
• 2025-10-23 Ordered to a third reading
• 2025-10-23 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-10-27 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2025-10-27 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2025-10-27 Enacted passage
• 2025-10-30 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2025-11-06 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 54 of the Acts of 2025 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c65079a5-88b2-494b-8261-60c516939145. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).