H3932 • 2025

An Act relative to certain affordable housing and branch library space in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston

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Sponsor: Christopher J. Worrell
Last action: 2025-09-17
Official status: New draft substituted, see H4532
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act relative to certain affordable housing and branch library space in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston

An Act relative to certain affordable housing and branch library space in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston By Representative Worrell of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act relative to certain affordable housing and branch library space in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston By Representative Worrell of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
3932) of Christopher J.
Worrell (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the procurement and award of contracts for construction of a certain subsidized affordable housing project, including space for a branch library to be procured by the Boston Public Library, in the city of Boston.
State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.

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Bill History

2025-09-17 House
Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill with the same title, see H4532
2025-09-17 House
Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
2025-09-17 House
Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendment pending
2025-09-17 House
Rules suspended
2025-09-17 House
Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2025-09-17 House
New draft substituted, see H4532
2025-08-18 House
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2025-05-30 Joint
Hearing scheduled for 06/04/2025 from 11:00 AM-05:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium
2025-04-10 Senate
Senate concurred
2025-03-20 House
Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to certain affordable housing and branch library space in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston
By Representative Worrell of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3932) of Christopher J. Worrell (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the procurement and award of contracts for construction of a certain subsidized affordable housing project, including space for a branch library to be procured by the Boston Public Library, in the city of Boston. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight. [Local Approval Received.]

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Bill H.3932

SECTION 1. Construction and development activity related to redevelopment by the developer selected by the Boston Redevelopment Authority of subsidized affordable housing, including space for a branch library to be procured by the Boston Public Library, to be built on Boston Redevelopment Authority-owned land under a ground lease, or any part thereof, shall not be subject to any general or special law related to the procurement and award of contracts for the planning, design, construction management, construction, reconstruction, installation, demolition, maintenance, or repair of buildings or public works by a public agency, including chapter 149, chapter 7C, or section 39M of chapter 30 of the General Laws, but shall be subject to sections 26 to 27H, inclusive, of chapter 149 of the General Laws. Nor shall the acquisition of any interest in real property by the City of Boston necessary to support the completion of the project be subject to section 16 of chapter 30B of the General Laws, nor shall the cost of any such acquisition be limited by any general or special law, including section 12 of chapter 642 of the Acts of 1966. Contracts for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, remodeling, or repair of any publicly owned public works that service this project and would otherwise be subject to section 39M of chapter 30 of the General Laws shall be subject to said section 39M if the redevelopment of the project is funded in part by state or federal government low-income housing tax credit, grant, or loan, or pursuant to the issuance of tax-exempt bonds authorized by general law. A conveyance of the project, whether by leasehold or fee estate, to an urban redevelopment corporation organized under chapter 121A of the General Laws or to a nonprofit state and federally tax-exempt corporation organized for the purpose of revitalizing the project, shall be subject to chapter 30B of the General Laws to the extent that the project is conveyed to an entity that is not owned, controlled, or managed by the Boston Public Library on the date of the conveyance.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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