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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the transfer of land in the town of Sharon"
description: "By Mr. Kafka of Stoughton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4389) of Louis L. Kafka, Paul R. Feeney and Walter F. Timilty (by vote of the town) relative to the transfer of land to be used for a utility scale solar project in the town of Sharon. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4389"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4389 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Louis L. Kafka"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-02-05"
last_action: "2020-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a396d5a4-82b8-4d81-8cc2-7a65496aac7c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4389"
source_hash: "de49638041d1b253e4f67287116db3df6fd7d0a6ea225ad6794ccb78a76045b6"
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 4389 (191st) — An Act relative to the transfer of land in the town of Sharon
By Mr. Kafka of Stoughton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4389) of Louis L. Kafka, Paul R. Feeney and Walter F. Timilty (by vote of the town) relative to the transfer of land to be used for a utility scale solar project in the town of Sharon. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. [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/H4389.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Louis L. Kafka — primary (person)
- Louis L. Kafka — cosponsor (person)
- Paul R. Feeney — cosponsor (person)
- Walter F. Timilty — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-05** Referred to the committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10** Senate concurred
- **2020-03-12** Reporting date extended to Thursday June 4, 2020, pending concurrence
- **2020-03-16** Senate concurred
- **2020-05-26** Hearing scheduled for 06/01/2020 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2020-06-24** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-07-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-07-02** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-07-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-23** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2020-07-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-07-31** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-08-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 142 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/a396d5a4-82b8-4d81-8cc2-7a65496aac7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).