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 House Committee on Ways and Means · 3 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H5616 · Bill

17 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2026-07-29	House	Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-07-29	House	Pending new draft of H5541
2026-07-29	House	New draft of H5541
2026-07-29	House	Ordered to a third reading
2026-07-29	House	Rules suspended
2026-07-29	House	Read third
2026-07-29	House	Bills in the Third Reading special report accepted
2026-07-29	House	Consolidated with S3229
2026-07-29	House	Amendment 1 adopted
2026-07-29	House	Passed to be engrossed
2026-07-30	Senate	Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed
2026-07-30	House	Emergency preamble adopted
2026-07-30	Senate	Emergency preamble adopted
2026-07-30	House	Enacted - 158 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 250)
2026-07-30	Senate	Enacted -see Roll Call #227 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0)
2026-07-30	Senate	Laid before the Governor
2026-08-06	Executive	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 173 of the Acts of 2026

When	Chamber	Roll call	Question	Tally
2026-07-30	Senate	No. 227	Enacted -see Roll Call #227 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0)	39–0

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	Floor Amendment	Thomas P. Walsh	Adopted

Action	Committee
Special Report	Bills in the Third Reading (H)

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.