# Massachusetts H 4439: An Act providing a simplified procedure for the layout and acceptance of subdivision roads in the City of Marlborough Massachusetts H 4439, An Act providing a simplified procedure for the layout and acceptance of subdivision roads in the City of Marlborough, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by Carmine Lawrence Gentile (Democratic), Danielle W. Gregoire (Democratic); status signed, last action 2025-12-10 (Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 of the Acts of 2025) (as of 2026-11-01). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4439-194 - As of: 2026-11-01 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Massachusetts H 4439 - State: Massachusetts - Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026) - Title: An Act providing a simplified procedure for the layout and acceptance of subdivision roads in the City of Marlborough - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-08-21 - Last action: 2025-12-10, Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 of the Acts of 2025 - Sponsors: Carmine Lawrence Gentile (Democratic), Danielle W. Gregoire (Democratic) - Cosponsors: 1 - Subjects: Municipalities and Regional Government, House Steering, Policy and Scheduling - Touches household money: no - Roll calls: 1 (9 yes, 0 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 2 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - City owns accepted roads; no compensation: cost, high. The city must record the council’s order of acceptance within 90 days after it takes effect. When recorded, fee ownership of the road and all listed municipal easements pass to the City of Marlborough for access, repair, and improvements. The city also takes pipes, structures, and other improvement… - Marlborough speeds subdivision road acceptance: mixed, medium. The law lets Marlborough use a simpler local process to make subdivision roads public when built per an approved plan. The planning board holds a public hearing on request of the mayor, the city council, or on its own. It mails notice to each abutting owner at least 7 days before and publishes or p… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Carmine Lawrence Gentile (Democratic), House - Sponsor: Danielle W. Gregoire (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: James B. Eldridge (Democratic), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-09-12 | committee | Committee Favorable: ought to pass | pass | 9 | 0 | | ## Actions (15) - 2025-12-10: Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 of the Acts of 2025 - 2025-12-01: Enacted and laid before the Governor (Senate) - 2025-12-01: Enacted (House) - 2025-11-26: Read third and passed to be engrossed (Senate) - 2025-11-26: Taken out of the Orders of the Day (Senate) - 2025-11-13: Read second and ordered to a third reading (Senate) - 2025-10-27: Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session (Senate) - 2025-10-23: Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed (House) - 2025-10-06: Read second and ordered to a third reading (House) - 2025-10-06: Rules suspended (House) - 2025-10-06: Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting (House) - 2025-09-22: Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling (House) - 2025-09-04: Hearing scheduled for 09/04/2025 from 03:10 PM-01:30 PM in Written Testimony Only (legislature) - 2025-08-25: Senate concurred (Senate) - 2025-08-21: Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government (House) ## Bill text - Chapter 85 of the Acts of 2025, 2025-12-10: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4439.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 85 of the Acts of 2025 (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4439.pdf) ## Related - [H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax aba…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4585-194) - [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) - [Massachusetts bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/massachusetts/bills) - [Massachusetts state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/massachusetts) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4439-194 (as of 2026-11-01).