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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to allow the town of Hingham to use municipal property as the location for a center for active living"
description: "By Representative Meschino of Hull and Senator O'Connor, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4314) of Joan Meschino (by vote of the town) that the town of Hingham be authorized to use municipal property as the location for a center for active living. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4314"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4314 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-07-23"
last_action: "2026-02-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91279233-21d2-42cc-a74b-fd237e927df2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4314"
source_hash: "3256a10c8ae51e13446a1051244a548dcc43143e70870af6be64f499ba1e28d8"
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 4314 (194th) — An Act to allow the town of Hingham to use municipal property as the location for a center for active living
By Representative Meschino of Hull and Senator O'Connor, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4314) of Joan Meschino (by vote of the town) that the town of Hingham be authorized to use municipal property as the location for a center for active living. 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/194/H4314.pdf)
## Votes
- Passing it to be enacted — **pass** (pass) · upper
- H. 4314 On Enactment Land Taking — **1540** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Joan Meschino — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-07-23** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-24** Senate concurred
- **2025-08-14** Hearing scheduled for 08/14/2025 from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2025-09-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2025-10-14** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-06** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-11-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-12-18** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-12-18** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-28** Enacted - 154 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 119 ) `passage`
- **2026-01-29** Enacted -see Roll Call #132 (Yeas 37 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2026-01-29** Laid before the Governor
- **2026-02-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 16 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91279233-21d2-42cc-a74b-fd237e927df2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).