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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Fairhaven to transfer an interest in certain park land"
description: "By Mr. Straus of Mattapoisett, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4009) of William M. Straus (by vote of the town) that the town of Fairhaven be authorized to transfer an interest in certain park land. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4009"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4009 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Straus"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-07-30"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6afda6a-82c3-4f66-ab1c-266055e1a3c8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4009"
source_hash: "583a84589b29f192edbfbefeba3249c108d8f10d4fc390c7af7aa274796d3925"
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 4009 (191st) — An Act authorizing the town of Fairhaven to transfer an interest in certain park land
By Mr. Straus of Mattapoisett, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4009) of William M. Straus (by vote of the town) that the town of Fairhaven be authorized to transfer an interest in certain park land. 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/191/H4009.pdf)
## Sponsors
- William M. Straus — primary (person)
- William M. Straus — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-07-30** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-31** Senate concurred
- **2019-08-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-08-15** Rules suspended
- **2019-08-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-09-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-09-05** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-10-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-01-30** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-01-30** Read third `reading-3`
- **2020-01-30** New text (Montigny) substituted, see S2486
- **2020-01-30** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-02-03** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment
- **2020-02-27** Rules suspended
- **2020-02-27** Senate concurred in the further House amendment
- **2020-03-04** Enacted - 154 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 153) `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Enacted -see Roll Call #189 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 88 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6afda6a-82c3-4f66-ab1c-266055e1a3c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).