---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Plymouth to exchange a parcel of land held for conservation purposes for a parcel of land in the town of Plymouth"
description: "By Mr. deMacedo, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2085) of Viriato M. deMacedo and Mathew Muratore (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Plymouth to exchange a parcel of land held for conservation purposes for a parcel of land in the town of Plymouth. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2085"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2085 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Viriato M. deMacedo"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-06-12"
last_action: "2017-10-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49f28ddc-de4e-4d1a-8162-55b237b7d5f4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2085"
source_hash: "913de79896670cab829854a6d2e167bf576a2ea4d62a8ddbfe1ebf9998590f63"
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 2085 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Plymouth to exchange a parcel of land held for conservation purposes for a parcel of land in the town of Plymouth

By Mr. deMacedo, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2085) of Viriato M. deMacedo and Mathew Muratore (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Plymouth to exchange a parcel of land held for conservation purposes for a parcel of land in the town of Plymouth. 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/S2085.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Viriato M. deMacedo — primary (person)
- Mathew Muratore — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-12** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** House concurred
- **2017-06-21** Hearing scheduled for 06/27/2017 from 11:00 AM-02:00 PM in 222
- **2017-07-05** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-07-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-07-27** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-07-31** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-08-03** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-16** Read third, amended by substitution of a new text (H3959) `reading-3`
- **2017-10-16** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2017-10-23** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-23** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2017-10-25** Enacted - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 271) `passage`
- **2017-10-26** Enacted -see Roll Call #209 [YEAS 37 to NAYS 0] `passage`
- **2017-10-26** Laid before the Governor
- **2017-10-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 108 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/49f28ddc-de4e-4d1a-8162-55b237b7d5f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).