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.
| Date | Branch | Action |
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| 2026-06-29 | House | Reported from the committee on Transportation |
| 2026-06-29 | House | New draft of H5400 |
| 2026-06-29 | House | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means |
| 2026-07-29 | House | Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill with the same title, see H5616 |
| 2026-07-29 | House | Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending |
| 2026-07-29 | 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 |
| 2026-07-29 | House | Rules suspended |
| 2026-07-29 | House | Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) |
| 2026-07-29 | House | New draft substituted, see H5616 |
1 amendments filed
1 adopted
| No. | Title | Moved by | Outcome |
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| House 1 | 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
| House Committee on Ways and Means | Adopted |
2 committee votes
Transportation (J) · 2026-06-25 12:00 · Redraft
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
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