---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Fall River Housing Authority to convey a certain parcel of land to Southcoast Hospital Group, Inc"
description: "An Act authorizing the city of Fall River Housing Authority to convey a certain parcel of land to Southcoast Hospital Group, Inc"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2503"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2503 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Senate Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-07-29"
last_action: "2022-11-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90ed1226-5d5e-4918-bdac-c3041c7caafe"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2503"
source_hash: "fd1ae9aced1f1efe1f36f6bdf5228022d15cb6180a997463486dd4cca55dde41"
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 2503 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the city of Fall River Housing Authority to convey a certain parcel of land to Southcoast Hospital Group, Inc

## 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/192/S2503.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-07-29** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
- **2021-07-29** Recommended new draft for S1358
- **2021-07-29** Substituted as a new draft for S1358
- **2021-07-29** Ordered to a third reading
- **2021-07-29** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-08-02** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-26** Reported from the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- **2021-08-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-08-26** Rules suspended
- **2021-08-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-10-20** Read third (title changed), amended by substitution of a new text (H5360) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-27** Rules suspended
- **2022-10-27** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2022-10-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-10-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 260 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90ed1226-5d5e-4918-bdac-c3041c7caafe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).