---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to a certain parcel of conservation land in the city of Boston"
description: "By Mr. Rush, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2540) of Michael F. Rush and Angelo M. Scaccia (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation relative to a certain parcel of conservation land in the city of Boston. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2540"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2540 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael F. Rush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-06-04"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/111f8434-c37f-45e9-aee0-cd14f798c035"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2540"
source_hash: "9b5feb6998ae56feeececbe3ce53e19a3d06f328d4c9a2eec7728593d0241d74"
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 2540 (190th) — An Act relative to a certain parcel of conservation land in the city of Boston

By Mr. Rush, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2540) of Michael F. Rush and Angelo M. Scaccia (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation relative to a certain parcel of conservation land in the city of Boston. 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/S2540.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Michael F. Rush — primary (person)
- Angelo M. Scaccia — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-04** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-06** House concurred
- **2018-06-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-28** 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`
- **2018-07-25** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-31** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 511) `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Enacted -see Roll Call #568 (Yeas 36 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 175 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/111f8434-c37f-45e9-aee0-cd14f798c035`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).