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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Littleton to provide drinking water to the inhabitants of the town of Boxborough"
description: "By Representative Arciero of Westford, a petition (subject to Joint Rules 12 and 9) of James Arciero that the town of Littleton be authorized to provide drinking water to the inhabitants of the town of Boxborough. Municipalities and Regional Government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4246"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4246 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Arciero"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-11-15"
last_action: "2024-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f58bd92e-ce24-4055-8c45-50243444c25b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4246"
source_hash: "986233d6bd7d1f408766ca8aace5197a75c5130e24872becdc9f4d75f5924037"
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 4246 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Littleton to provide drinking water to the inhabitants of the town of Boxborough
By Representative Arciero of Westford, a petition (subject to Joint Rules 12 and 9) of James Arciero that the town of Littleton be authorized to provide drinking water to the inhabitants of the town of Boxborough. 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/193/H4246.pdf)
## Sponsors
- James Arciero — primary (person)
- Danillo A. Sena — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-11-15** Transmitted to the State Secretary
- **2023-12-28** Returned from the Secretary of State
- **2023-12-28** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Senate concurred
- **2024-01-12** Hearing scheduled for 01/12/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2024-02-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-02-22** Rules suspended
- **2024-02-22** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-11** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-06-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-08-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-08-15** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-08-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-08-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 188 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f58bd92e-ce24-4055-8c45-50243444c25b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).