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---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Westford to release agricultural preservation restrictions over land owned by Westford Gateway, LLC"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Westford to release agricultural preservation restrictions over land owned by Westford Gateway, LLC"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4362"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4362 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-07-30"
last_action: "2025-11-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98eac788-8f54-495c-8b4f-73cdeb7ad28e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4362"
source_hash: "121b46d511053da4ea25e1f74351f602394d504de84a9e339d9339fe28a1089b"
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 4362 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Westford to release agricultural preservation restrictions over land owned by Westford Gateway, LLC
## 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/H4362.pdf)
## Votes
- H. 4362 On Enactment Land Taking — **1560** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- James Arciero — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-07-30** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2025-07-30** Pending new draft of H3282
- **2025-07-30** New draft of H3282
- **2025-07-30** Ordered to a third reading
- **2025-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-04** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-17** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2723 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-11-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-17** Read second `reading-2`
- **2025-11-17** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2723 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-17** Ordered to a third reading
- **2025-11-19** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-11-19** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-19** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2025-11-19** Enacted - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 115 ) `passage`
- **2025-11-19** Enacted -see Roll Call #115 (Yeas 37 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2025-11-19** Laid before the Governor
- **2025-11-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 75 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98eac788-8f54-495c-8b4f-73cdeb7ad28e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).