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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act protecting sunlight and promoting economic development in the city of Boston"
description: "By Mr. Michlewitz of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3749) of Aaron Michlewitz and Joseph A. Boncore (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to shadows cast by certain structures in the city of Boston. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3749"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3749 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Michlewitz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-06-14"
last_action: "2017-07-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80820e49-2220-4a6d-a980-8fb7e67cc088"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3749"
source_hash: "06e8d8d29018015988e688888a5757e70e7edd4fe03a5b616beb211fb12d38ad"
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 3749 (190th) — An Act protecting sunlight and promoting economic development in the city of Boston
By Mr. Michlewitz of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3749) of Aaron Michlewitz and Joseph A. Boncore (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to shadows cast by certain structures in the city of Boston. 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3749.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Aaron Michlewitz — primary (person)
- Joseph A. Boncore — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-06-14** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-19** Senate concurred
- **2017-06-21** Hearing scheduled for 06/27/2017 from 11:00 AM-02:00 PM in 222
- **2017-07-13** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-07-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-07-19** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-19** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-07-24** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-07-24** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-07-24** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-07-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 57 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80820e49-2220-4a6d-a980-8fb7e67cc088`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).