---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the Lafayette Trail"
description: "By Mr. Hinds, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Adam G. Hinds, Tricia Farley-Bouvier, Paul W. Mark and John Barrett for legislation relative to the Lafayette Trail. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2265"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2265 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adam G. Hinds"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-12-11"
last_action: "2018-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f3aec9a-80d0-4fd2-97ff-9da335822420"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2265"
source_hash: "84f29454999b78ca4fc8ad1f49ce52910d494c6f064155f43ffe9ba9c692cd87"
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 2265 (190th) — An Act relative to the Lafayette Trail

By Mr. Hinds, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Adam G. Hinds, Tricia Farley-Bouvier, Paul W. Mark and John Barrett for legislation relative to the Lafayette Trail. Transportation.

## 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/190/S2265.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Adam G. Hinds — primary (person)
- John Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)
- Tricia Farley-Bouvier — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-12-11** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2017-12-14** Rules suspended
- **2017-12-14** Referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** House concurred
- **2018-01-23** Hearing scheduled for 01/24/2018 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
- **2018-02-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the day fro the next session
- **2018-03-09** Rules suspended
- **2018-03-09** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-03-12** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-04-02** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-09-24** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-09-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-10-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 267 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f3aec9a-80d0-4fd2-97ff-9da335822420`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).