# Massachusetts H 4364: An Act authorizing the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance to grant certain easements to the town of Bourne

Massachusetts H 4364, An Act authorizing the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance to grant certain easements to the town of Bourne, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by House Committee on Ways and Means; status signed, last action 2025-09-11 (Signed by the Governor, Chapter 26 of the Acts of 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts H 4364
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act authorizing the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance to grant certain easements to the town of Bourne
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-07-30
- Last action: 2025-09-11, Signed by the Governor, Chapter 26 of the Acts of 2025
- Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means
- Cosponsors: 3
- Subjects: House Ways and Means
- Touches household money: yes
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 1

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Bourne gets waterline easements on armory land: mixed, low. This law lets the state grant Bourne permanent and temporary easements on armory land on Armory Road to run a subsurface waterline. Boundaries are set by a survey and follow a plan dated October 15, 2018 on file with the town clerk. The easements are only for installing, using, fixing, and replacin…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means
- Cosponsor: David T. Vieira (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Dylan A. Fernandes (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Steven George Xiarhos (Republican), House

## Actions (14)

- 2025-09-11: Signed by the Governor, Chapter 26 of the Acts of 2025
- 2025-09-04: Enacted and laid before the Governor (Senate)
- 2025-09-04: Enacted (House)
- 2025-09-02: Emergency preamble adopted (Senate)
- 2025-09-02: Emergency preamble adopted (House)
- 2025-08-28: Read third and passed to be engrossed (Senate)
- 2025-08-28: Taken out of the Orders of the Day (Senate)
- 2025-08-04: Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading (Senate)
- 2025-07-31: Read third and passed to be engrossed (House)
- 2025-07-31: Rules suspended (House)
- 2025-07-30: Ordered to a third reading (House)
- 2025-07-30: New draft of H3435 (House)
- 2025-07-30: Pending new draft of H3435 (House)
- 2025-07-30: Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means (House)

## Bill text

- Chapter 26 of the Acts of 2025, 2025-09-11: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4364.pdf)

## Related bills

- H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax abatements (signed)
- H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police chief Neal Hovey (passed senate)
- H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G.L. chapter 59, section 5, clauses seventeenth D and forty-first C in the town o… (passed house)
- H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust to acquire year-round housing occupancy restrictions (signed)
- H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nicholas Spinale (second reading)
- H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the position of firefighter in the town of Dudley (signed)

## Sources
- [Chapter 26 of the Acts of 2025 (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4364.pdf)

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- [H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police ch…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5435-194)
- [H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5515-194)
- [H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H3909-194)
- [H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nichola…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5429-194)
- [H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the p…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5520-194)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4364-194 (as of 2026-11-01).