An Act authorizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting by and through its Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, to grant permanent easements over certain land in the town of Milton for highway purposes

Reported by Senate Committee on Ways and Means · 2 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

Became Chapter 184 of the Acts of 2026.

S2968 · Bill

21 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2026-02-26	Senate	Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
2026-02-26	Senate	Recommended new draft for S2657
2026-02-26	Senate	Substituted as a new draft for S2657
2026-02-26	Senate	Ordered to a third reading
2026-02-26	Senate	Read third and passed to be engrossed
2026-03-02	House	Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-07-31	House	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H5633, and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2026-07-31	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting 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	Ordered to a third reading
2026-07-31	House	Rules suspended
2026-07-31	House	Read third and passed to be engrossed
2026-07-31	Senate	Rules suspended
2026-07-31	Senate	Senate concurred in the House amendment
2026-07-31	House	Emergency preamble adopted
2026-07-31	Senate	Emergency preamble adopted
2026-07-31	House	Enacted - 152 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 268)
2026-07-31	Senate	Enacted -see Roll Call #236 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0)
2026-07-31	Senate	Laid before the Governor
2026-08-07	Executive	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 184 of the Acts of 2026

1 recorded vote

When	Chamber	Roll call	Question	Tally
2026-07-31	Senate	No. 236	Enacted -see Roll Call #236 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0)	39–0

1 amendments filed

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	An Act authorizing the division of capital asset management and maintenance to grant permanent easements over certain land in the town of Milton for highway purposes	House Committee on Ways and Means	Adopted

1 committee vote

Ways and Means (H) · 2026-07-31 18:10 · S.2968 “An Act authorizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting by and through its Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, to grant permanent easements over certain land in the town of Milton for highway purposes” as amended

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

Committee actions

Action	Committee
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (H)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)
Correctly Drawn	Bills in the Third Reading (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.