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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act to authorize the conveyance by lease or easement and change of use of conservation land in the town of Groton"
+description: "Senate, July 29, 2019 – Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Kennedy) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2239"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
+legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
+session: "191st"
+identifier: "S 2303"
+citation: "Massachusetts S 2303 (191st)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Edward J. Kennedy"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 0
+first_action: "2019-07-29"
+last_action: "2019-10-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b64a9dca-c539-4eef-b532-b7c00ee538e8"
+source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2303"
+source_hash: "a32e5c041476bfb9dfcdb2dc0912b1e9bfb8b3be4041efc60bee6193d224e883"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
+---
+
+# Massachusetts S 2303 (191st) — An Act to authorize the conveyance by lease or easement and change of use of conservation land in the town of Groton
+
+Senate, July 29, 2019 – Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Kennedy) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2239
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2303.pdf)
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Edward J. Kennedy — primary (person)
+- Edward J. Kennedy — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-07-29** Recommended new draft (Kennedy) for S2239
+- **2019-07-29** Substituted for S2239
+- **2019-07-29** Ordered to a third reading
+- **2019-07-29** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
+- **2019-07-30** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
+- **2019-08-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
+- **2019-08-26** Rules suspended
+- **2019-08-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
+- **2019-10-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
+- **2019-10-23** Enacted - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 116) `passage`
+- **2019-10-24** Enacted - see Roll Call #113 [39 YEAS - 0 NAYS] `passage`
+- **2019-10-24** Laid before the Governor
+- **2019-10-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 99 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b64a9dca-c539-4eef-b532-b7c00ee538e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
+