# Massachusetts H 5553: An Act authorizing the division of capital asset management and maintenance to take by eminent domain certain land in the town of Norwood Massachusetts H 5553, An Act authorizing the division of capital asset management and maintenance to take by eminent domain certain land in the town of Norwood, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by House Committee on Ways and Means; status signed, last action 2026-08-06 (Signed by the Governor, Chapter 178 of the Acts of 2026); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5553-194 - 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 5553 - State: Massachusetts - Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026) - Title: An Act authorizing the division of capital asset management and maintenance to take by eminent domain certain land in the town of Norwood - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2026-07-01 - Last action: 2026-08-06, Signed by the Governor, Chapter 178 of the Acts of 2026 - Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means - Cosponsors: 12 - Subjects: House Ways and Means, Bills in the Third Reading - Touches household money: yes - Economic provisions PRIA read: 1 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - State can take Norwood Hospital to keep care: benefit, medium. This emergency law lets the state’s capital asset division take the Norwood Hospital land at 800 Washington Street by eminent domain, if funded. It can also take nearby parcels owned by MPT of Norwood-Steward, LLC when needed to keep care available. After the taking, control moves to the Department… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: House Committee on Ways and Means - Cosponsor: Christopher Richard Flanagan (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Colleen M. Garry (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Edward R. Philips (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Jeffrey N. Roy (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: John H. Rogers (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Marcus S. Vaughn (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Michael F. Rush (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Patrick Joseph Kearney (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Paul McMurtry (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Paul R. Feeney (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Thomas W. Moakley (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: William C. Galvin (Democratic), House ## Actions (18) - 2026-08-06: Signed by the Governor, Chapter 178 of the Acts of 2026 - 2026-07-31: Enacted and laid before the Governor (Senate) - 2026-07-31: Enacted (House) - 2026-07-31: Emergency preamble adopted (Senate) - 2026-07-31: Emergency preamble adopted (House) - 2026-07-30: House concurred in the Senate amendment (House) - 2026-07-29: Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading (House) - 2026-07-29: Passed to be engrossed (Senate) - 2026-07-29: Amended (Rush) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S3231 (Senate) - 2026-07-29: Read third (Senate) - 2026-07-29: Taken out of the Orders of the Day (Senate) - 2026-07-06: Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading (Senate) - 2026-07-01: Read third and passed to be engrossed (House) - 2026-07-01: Rules suspended (House) - 2026-07-01: Ordered to a third reading (House) - 2026-07-01: New draft of H5192 (House) - 2026-07-01: Pending new draft of H5192 (House) - 2026-07-01: Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means (House) ## Bill text - Chapter 178 of the Acts of 2026, 2026-08-06: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5553.pdf) ## Related bills - H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police chief Neal Hovey (passed senate) - H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax abatements (signed) - 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 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the position of firefighter in the town of Dudley (signed) - H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nicholas Spinale (second reading) - H 4755: An Act amending the means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in the town of Sudbury (signed) ## Sources - [Chapter 178 of the Acts of 2026 (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5553.pdf) ## Related - [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 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax aba…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4585-194) - [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 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the p…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5520-194) - [H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nichola…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5429-194) - [H 4755: An Act amending the means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in the t…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4755-194) - [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-H5553-194 (as of 2026-11-01).