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
Filed by Cindy F. Friedman · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page
S3169 · Bill · docket SD3961
10 actions
In the order the legislature recorded them.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|
| 2026-06-04 | Senate | Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently |
| 2026-06-29 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2026-06-29 | Senate | Referred to the committee on Transportation |
| 2026-07-08 | House | House concurred |
| 2026-07-09 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 07/14/2026 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only |
| 2026-07-22 | Senate | Bill reported favorably by committee |
| 2026-07-22 | Senate | Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2026-07-29 | Senate | Taken out of the Orders of the Day |
| 2026-07-29 | Senate | Read third |
| 2026-07-29 | Senate | New draft substituted (Friedman), see S3229 |
1 amendments filed
1 adopted
| No. | Title | Moved by | Outcome |
|---|
| Senate 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 | Cindy F. Friedman | Adopted |
1 committee vote
Transportation (J) · 2026-07-17 16:00 · Ought to pass
Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.
Public hearing
House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.
| Date | Committee | Where | Status |
|---|
| 2026-07-14 | Transportation (J) | Written Testimony Only, 24 Beacon Street, Boston | Completed |
Committee actions
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.