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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the provisions of Chapter 145 of the Acts of 1937"
description: "By Mr. Vieira of Falmouth, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of David T. Vieira and Viriato M. deMacedo relative to the terms of water commissioners in the Buzzards Bay Water District. Municipalities and Regional Government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4523"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4523 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David T. Vieira"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-05-16"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c1731fe-7747-46cb-99c5-131a40745349"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4523"
source_hash: "39ad67053520db61c03cc452649642a093255e9e067c9369dc2541403a366c25"
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 4523 (190th) — An Act amending the provisions of Chapter 145 of the Acts of 1937
By Mr. Vieira of Falmouth, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of David T. Vieira and Viriato M. deMacedo relative to the terms of water commissioners in the Buzzards Bay Water District. Municipalities and Regional Government.
## 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/H4523.pdf)
## Sponsors
- David T. Vieira — primary (person)
- Viriato M. deMacedo — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-05-16** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-17** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-21** Senate concurred
- **2018-06-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-06-14** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-16** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-17** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-30** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-07-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-07-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 222 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c1731fe-7747-46cb-99c5-131a40745349`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).