# Massachusetts H 4842: An Act to clarify the organization of the Lexington Housing Assistance Board

Massachusetts H 4842, An Act to clarify the organization of the Lexington Housing Assistance Board, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by no sponsor on record; status signed, last action 2026-05-19 (Signed by the Governor, Chapter 84 of the Acts of 2026); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts H 4842
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act to clarify the organization of the Lexington Housing Assistance Board
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-12-15
- Last action: 2026-05-19, Signed by the Governor, Chapter 84 of the Acts of 2026
- Sponsors: no sponsor on record
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: Housing, House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 1 (10 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 1

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Lexington creates nonprofit for affordable housing: benefit, low. The law creates the Lexington Housing Assistance Board, Inc. (LexHAB) as an independent 501(c)(3) housing charity. LexHAB can own and manage property and run housing efforts for the Lexington community. If LexHAB is ever dissolved, all of its property, assets, and rights transfer to the Town of Lex…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- (none)

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-03-06 | committee | Committee Favorable: Poll on H.4842 | pass | 10 | 0 |   |

## Actions (14)

- 2026-05-19: Signed by the Governor, Chapter 84 of the Acts of 2026
- 2026-05-11: Enacted and laid before the Governor (Senate)
- 2026-05-11: Enacted (House)
- 2026-05-07: Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed (Senate)
- 2026-05-07: Taken out of the Orders of the Day (Senate)
- 2026-04-30: Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session (Senate)
- 2026-04-27: Read third and passed to be engrossed (House)
- 2026-03-23: Read second and ordered to a third reading (House)
- 2026-03-23: Rules suspended (House)
- 2026-03-23: Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting (House)
- 2026-03-12: Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling (House)
- 2026-01-06: Hearing scheduled for 01/06/2026 from 12:00 PM-12:00 PM in Written Testimony Only (legislature)
- 2025-12-18: Senate concurred (Senate)
- 2025-12-15: Referred to the committee on Housing (House)

## Bill text

- Chapter 84 of the Acts of 2026, 2026-05-19: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4842.pdf)

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- 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 4755: An Act amending the means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in the town of Sudbury (signed)
- 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)

## Sources
- [Chapter 84 of the Acts of 2026 (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4842.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 4755: An Act amending the means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in the t…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4755-194)
- [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)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4842-194 (as of 2026-11-01).