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H4009 • 2025

An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon

An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Edward R. Philips
Last action
2025-11-06
Official status
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 54 of the Acts of 2025
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon

An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Edward R.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Edward R.
  • Philips and Michael F.
  • Rush for legislation to authorize the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon.
  • Environment and Natural Resources.

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-06 Executive

    Signed by the Governor, Chapter 54 of the Acts of 2025

  2. 2025-10-30 Senate

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

  3. 2025-10-27 House

    Emergency preamble adopted

  4. 2025-10-27 Senate

    Emergency preamble adopted

  5. 2025-10-27 House

    Enacted

  6. 2025-10-23 Senate

    Motion to reconsider prevailed

  7. 2025-10-23 Senate

    Amendment (Senate Rules) rejected

  8. 2025-10-23 Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  9. 2025-10-23 Senate

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  10. 2025-10-20 Senate

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment

  11. 2025-10-20 Senate

    Rules suspended

  12. 2025-10-20 Senate

    Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Senate Rules), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed

  13. 2025-08-04 Senate

    Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules

  14. 2025-07-31 House

    Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed

  15. 2025-07-21 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  16. 2025-07-21 House

    Rules suspended

  17. 2025-07-21 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  18. 2025-07-10 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  19. 2025-04-23 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 05/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1

  20. 2025-04-10 Senate

    Senate concurred

  21. 2025-04-07 House

    Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Environment and Natural Resources

  22. 2025-03-31 House

    Referred to the committee on House Rules

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon
By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Edward R. Philips and Michael F. Rush for legislation to authorize the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon. Environment and Natural Resources.

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.4009

SECTION 1. Subject to receipt of all approvals required under section 2 and following satisfaction of all procedures adopted by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, including the payment to the Authority of an entrance fee, the Authority may provide sewer services through the town of Walpole to the property located in the town of Sharon, consisting of approximately 3.07 acres of land located at the intersection of Route One- General Edwards Highway and High Plain Street, which is more particularly described by the Sharon Board of Assessors as Lots 2R and 4R General Edwards Highway and identified on Sharon Assessors Map 116 as Lots 4 and 5, which property is currently under contract for sale to Lang’s Century Services or its nominee, successor, or assignee; provided, however, that discharges shall not exceed 10,000 gallons per day unless an additional volume is approved by the Authority. The Authority may allow the property to be used and serviced by the sewer system to the same extent as parcels of property located within the district currently served by the authority. All costs and expenses incurred for engineering, design and construction, inclusive of all supervision, labor, equipment and materials, relative to the sewer tie-in shall be paid by Lang’s Century Services, or its nominee, successor or assignee.

SECTION 2. The sewer connection to the town of Walpole’s infrastructure and the provision of sewer services by the authority for any discharges shall commence only after the authority’s board of directors has voted to approve the connection after having first made the findings set forth in paragraph (c) of section 8 of chapter 372 of the acts of 1984 and having made such other determinations in accordance with applicable policies of the authority and after all required approvals have been received including, as applicable, the approval of the community of origin, transporting community, all other local and state regulatory bodies where required and the authority’s advisory board.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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