---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Northampton to release a certain conservation easement"
description: "By Mr. Rosenberg, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2512) of Stanley C. Rosenberg (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city of Northampton to release a certain conservation easement. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2512"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2512 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stanley C. Rosenberg"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-05-07"
last_action: "2018-08-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11b23d99-fbe0-4e1f-8d69-4dbd6e22cb22"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2512"
source_hash: "f41b74a34fcbbaec9eb722d6c9aaa8af9b7705a0b64209cb94158925930cdad3"
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 2512 (190th) — An Act authorizing the city of Northampton to release a certain conservation easement

By Mr. Rosenberg, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2512) of Stanley C. Rosenberg (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city of Northampton to release a certain conservation easement. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/S2512.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Stanley C. Rosenberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-07** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** House concurred
- **2018-05-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-23** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-07-23** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-23** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-07-24** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-25** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-25** Enacted - 152 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 416) `passage`
- **2018-07-25** Enacted -see Roll Call #469 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2018-07-25** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-08-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 172 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/11b23d99-fbe0-4e1f-8d69-4dbd6e22cb22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).