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Bill	An Act to allow the town of Hingham to use municipal property as the location for a center for active living	By Representative Meschino of Hull and Senator O'Connor, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4314) of Joan Meschino (by vote of the town) that the town of Hingham be authorized to use municipal property as the location for a center for active living. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 4314	Massachusetts H 4314 (194th)	bill		enacted		1	16	2	2025-07-23	2026-02-06	openstates	ocd-bill/91279233-21d2-42cc-a74b-fd237e927df2	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4314	3256a10c8ae51e13446a1051244a548dcc43143e70870af6be64f499ba1e28d8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4314 (194th) — An Act to allow the town of Hingham to use municipal property as the location for a center for active living

By Representative Meschino of Hull and Senator O'Connor, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4314) of Joan Meschino (by vote of the town) that the town of Hingham be authorized to use municipal property as the location for a center for active living. 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

Votes

• Passing it to be enacted — pass (pass) · upper
• H. 4314 On Enactment Land Taking — 154–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joan Meschino — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-07-23 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2025-07-24 Senate concurred
• 2025-08-14 Hearing scheduled for 08/14/2025 from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2025-09-08 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-10-14 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
• 2025-10-14 Rules suspended
• 2025-10-14 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-11-05 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-11-06 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2025-11-19 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-12-18 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2025-12-18 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2026-01-28 Enacted - 154 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 119 ) passage
• 2026-01-29 Enacted -see Roll Call #132 (Yeas 37 to Nays 0) passage
• 2026-01-29 Laid before the Governor
• 2026-02-06 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 16 of the Acts of 2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/91279233-21d2-42cc-a74b-fd237e927df2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).