---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Department of Fish and Game to acquire a conservation restriction on land of the town of Groveland"
description: "By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bruce E. Tarr and Leonard Mirra for legislation to authorize the Department of Fish and Game to acquire a conservation restriction on land of the town of Groveland. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2319"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2319 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80fc80c3-7637-49a1-bd0d-d77e0e3ed6f1"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2319"
source_hash: "8f50b229457c0a2f4821593f25e028d6034535abef9ee34f81558c1bb12883f8"
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 2319 (190th) — An Act authorizing the Department of Fish and Game to acquire a conservation restriction on land of the town of Groveland

By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Bruce E. Tarr and Leonard Mirra for legislation to authorize the Department of Fish and Game to acquire a conservation restriction on land of the town of Groveland. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.

## 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/S2319.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
- Leonard Mirra — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-07** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Rules suspended
- **2018-02-22** Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** House concurred
- **2018-03-06** Hearing scheduled for 03/13/2018 from 02:00 PM-04:00 PM in A-1
- **2018-03-12** Hearing canceled – new hearing TBD
- **2018-03-12** Hearing scheduled for 03/14/2018 from 02:00 PM-03:00 PM in B-2
- **2018-03-26** Reporting date extended to Wednesday May 9, 2018, pending concurrence
- **2018-04-02** Senate concurred
- **2018-04-26** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-25** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-19** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-19** Rules supended
- **2018-07-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-07-25** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-26** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-27** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-07-27** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-27** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-31** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 501) `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - Roll Call #555 [YEAS 35 to NAYS 0] `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 185 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/80fc80c3-7637-49a1-bd0d-d77e0e3ed6f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).