---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Wilbraham to exchange a certain parcel of land held for conservation purposes"
description: "By Mr. Lesser, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2583) of Eric P. Lesser (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Wilbraham to exchange a certain parcel of land held for conservation purposes. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2583"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2583 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric P. Lesser"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-02"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd87910f-7f1a-4524-9edb-8664750fcdac"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2583"
source_hash: "e31f304b5f5a9300debc095c3dedf8e4afafa1d0f775f5a9f01f0680abfaeaa7"
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 2583 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Wilbraham to exchange a certain parcel of land held for conservation purposes

By Mr. Lesser, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2583) of Eric P. Lesser (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Wilbraham to exchange a certain parcel of land held for conservation purposes. 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/S2583.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Eric P. Lesser — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-07-02** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-03** House concurred
- **2018-07-16** Bill reported favorably by committee as changed and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-25** 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** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-31** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment (H4858) 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 with the amendment pending
- **2018-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-31** Read second, amended by substitution of a new text (H4858) 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** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-31** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 509) `passage`
- **2018-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2018-07-31** Enacted - Roll Call #567 [YEAS 36 to NAYS 0] `passage`
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 187 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/dd87910f-7f1a-4524-9edb-8664750fcdac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).