An Act authorizing the town of Nantucket conservation commission to convey a certain parcel of land situated in the town for purposes of conveyance to the town of Nantucket under the care, custody, management and control of the select board and the town of Nantucket to convey certain land in the town of Nantucket held for open space, passive recreation or conservation purposes to the Nantucket islands land bank for the purposes pursuant to its legislation and/or to the Sconset Trust, Inc. For open space, conservation and passive recreation purposes
Filed by Thomas W. Moakley · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page
H4523 · Bill · docket HD5111
10 actions
In the order the legislature recorded them.
| Date | Branch | Action |
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| 2025-09-15 | House | Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government |
| 2025-09-18 | Senate | Senate concurred |
| 2025-09-23 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 09/23/2025 from 02:00 PM-02:00 PM in Written Testimony Only |
| 2025-10-14 | House | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means |
| 2026-07-31 | House | Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill, see H5639 |
| 2026-07-31 | House | Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending |
| 2026-07-31 | 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 |
| 2026-07-31 | House | Rules suspended |
| 2026-07-31 | House | Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) |
| 2026-07-31 | House | New draft substituted, see H5639 |
1 amendments filed
1 adopted
| No. | Title | Moved by | Outcome |
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| House 1 | An Act authorizing the town of Nantucket conservation commission to convey a certain parcel of land situated in the town for purposes of conveyance to the town of Nantucket under the care, custody, management and control of the select board and the town of Nantucket to convey certain land in the town of Nantucket held for open space, passive recreation or conservation purposes to the Nantucket Islands Land Bank for the purposes pursuant to its enabling legislation for open space, conservation and passive recreation purposes | House Committee on Ways and Means | Adopted |
2 committee votes
Municipalities and Regional Government (J) · 2025-10-02 14:00 · ought to pass
Ways and Means (H) · 2026-07-31 18:10 · H.4523 “An Act authorizing the town of Nantucket conservation commission to convey a certain parcel of land situated in the town for purposes of conveyance to the town of Nantucket" as amended
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