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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to supply water to the Lynnfield Center Water District within the town of Lynnfield"
description: "By Representative Jones of North Reading and Senator Crighton, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 972) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and Brendan P. Crighton that the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority be authorized to supply water to the Lynnfield Center Water District in the town of Lynnfield. Environment and Natural Resources."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 972"
citation: "Massachusetts H 972 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2368650-b5a9-48c0-9bec-6003c580c52c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H972"
source_hash: "837b779d59ea93ebf718cb7ac0045c4af8327d7bddf65931e74337e5f988fe3b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---
# Massachusetts H 972 (194th) — An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to supply water to the Lynnfield Center Water District within the town of Lynnfield
By Representative Jones of North Reading and Senator Crighton, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 972) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and Brendan P. Crighton that the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority be authorized to supply water to the Lynnfield Center Water District in the town of Lynnfield. 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H972.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Brendan P. Crighton — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-27** Referred to the committee on Environment and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Senate concurred
- **2025-05-21** Hearing scheduled for 06/03/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
- **2025-07-07** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-07-10** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-07-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-07-21** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-07-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-04** Rules suspended
- **2025-08-04** Amendment adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2025-08-04** Rules suspended
- **2025-08-04** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2025-08-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-08-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-08-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-08-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-08-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 15 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2368650-b5a9-48c0-9bec-6003c580c52c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).