---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Southborough to enter into a land exchange agreement with St. Mark's School of Southborough, Inc"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Southborough to enter into a land exchange agreement with St. Mark's School of Southborough, Inc"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3809"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3809 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-07-13"
last_action: "2017-11-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/beebea95-95cf-4bee-a3cf-27da79e7d043"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3809"
source_hash: "a0a18837aa12e19c08e688534a38a871ee778d68ba8f38f9b6854382d9c52261"
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 H 3809 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Southborough to enter into a land exchange agreement with St. Mark's School of Southborough, 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/190/H3809.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-07-13** Reported from the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government
- **2017-07-13** New draft of H3717
- **2017-07-13** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-07-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-07-17** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-08-03** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-08-07** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-10-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-30** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2017-10-30** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-10-31** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-31** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2017-11-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-11-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-11-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 115 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/beebea95-95cf-4bee-a3cf-27da79e7d043`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).