# Massachusetts H 4532: An Act relative to certain affordable housing and branch library space in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston

Massachusetts H 4532, An Act relative to certain affordable housing and branch library space in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by House Committee on Ways and Means; status signed, last action 2025-10-08 (Signed by the Governor, Chapter 40 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 4532
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act relative to certain affordable housing and branch library space in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-09-17
- Last action: 2025-10-08, Signed by the Governor, Chapter 40 of the Acts of 2025
- Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means
- Cosponsors: 2
- Subjects: House Ways and Means
- Touches household money: yes
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 1

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Streamlined rules for Dorchester housing and library: mixed, low. The law speeds one project at 555–559 Columbia Road in Dorchester. It builds subsidized affordable housing with space for a branch library. The BRA and its chosen developer can plan and build without most state procurement steps. Boston can get any needed property interests without section 30B proc…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means
- Cosponsor: Christopher J. Worrell (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Nick Collins (Democratic), Senate

## Actions (12)

- 2025-10-08: Signed by the Governor, Chapter 40 of the Acts of 2025
- 2025-09-29: Enacted and laid before the Governor (Senate)
- 2025-09-29: Enacted (House)
- 2025-09-25: Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed (Senate)
- 2025-09-25: Taken out of the Orders of the Day (Senate)
- 2025-09-18: Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading (Senate)
- 2025-09-17: Read third and passed to be engrossed (House)
- 2025-09-17: Rules suspended (House)
- 2025-09-17: Ordered to a third reading (House)
- 2025-09-17: New draft of H3932 (House)
- 2025-09-17: Pending new draft of H3932 (House)
- 2025-09-17: Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means (House)

## Bill text

- Chapter 40 of the Acts of 2025, 2025-10-08: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4532.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 40 of the Acts of 2025 (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4532.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)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4532-194 (as of 2026-11-01).