---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to authorize the conveyance by lease or easement and change of use of conservation land in the town of Groton"
description: "Senate, July 29, 2019 – Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Kennedy) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2239"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2303"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2303 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward J. Kennedy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-07-29"
last_action: "2019-10-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b64a9dca-c539-4eef-b532-b7c00ee538e8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2303"
source_hash: "a32e5c041476bfb9dfcdb2dc0912b1e9bfb8b3be4041efc60bee6193d224e883"
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 2303 (191st) — An Act to authorize the conveyance by lease or easement and change of use of conservation land in the town of Groton

Senate, July 29, 2019 – Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Kennedy) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2239

## 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/191/S2303.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Edward J. Kennedy — primary (person)
- Edward J. Kennedy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-29** Recommended new draft (Kennedy) for S2239
- **2019-07-29** Substituted for S2239
- **2019-07-29** Ordered to a third reading
- **2019-07-29** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-07-30** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-08-26** Rules suspended
- **2019-08-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-10-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-10-23** Enacted - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 116) `passage`
- **2019-10-24** Enacted - see Roll Call #113 [39 YEAS - 0 NAYS] `passage`
- **2019-10-24** Laid before the Governor
- **2019-10-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 99 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b64a9dca-c539-4eef-b532-b7c00ee538e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).