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An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to take easements over certain land located in the city of Woburn and the town of Burlington held in trust by the city of Boston for the Mary P. C. Cummings Testamentary Trust for highway purposes

Reported by Joint Committee on Transportation  ·  3 cosponsors  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

H5541  ·  Bill

9 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2026-06-29HouseReported from the committee on Transportation
2026-06-29HouseNew draft of H5400
2026-06-29HouseBill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-07-29HouseCommittee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill with the same title, see H5616
2026-07-29HouseReferred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
2026-07-29HouseCommittee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendment pending
2026-07-29HouseRules suspended
2026-07-29HouseRead second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2026-07-29HouseNew draft substituted, see H5616

1 amendments filed

1 adopted

No.TitleMoved byOutcome
House 1An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to take easements over certain land located in the city of Woburn and the town of Burlington held in trust by the city of Boston for the Mary P. C. Cummings Testamentary Trust for highway purposes House Committee on Ways and MeansAdopted

2 committee votes

Transportation (J)  ·  2026-06-25 12:00  ·  Redraft

favorable · 11

no action · 2

Ways and Means (H)  ·  2026-07-28 10:45  ·  H.5541“An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to take easements over certain land located in the city of Woburn and the town of Burlington held in trust by the city of Boston” as amended

favorable · 32

no action · 2

Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
RedraftTransportation (J)
Favorable with AmendmentWays and Means (H)
Place in ODSteering, Policy and Scheduling (H)

Cosponsors

In the order filed.

Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.