---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Bedford to release a portion of a certain conservation restriction"
description: "By Representative Gordon of Bedford and Senator Barrett, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3644) of Kenneth I. Gordon and Michael J. Barrett (by vote of the town) that the town of Bedford be authorized to release a portion of a certain conservation restriction in said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3644"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3644 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-04-01"
last_action: "2019-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e79716d1-7c3f-48ac-ab8e-99aec4e7b940"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3644"
source_hash: "050a59f30ee919b6caf932314231262804a9d3267d155f7a2a429b683ca62f69"
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 3644 (191st) — An Act authorizing the town of Bedford to release a portion of a certain conservation restriction

By Representative Gordon of Bedford and Senator Barrett, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3644) of Kenneth I. Gordon and Michael J. Barrett (by vote of the town) that the town of Bedford be authorized to release a portion of a certain conservation restriction in said town. 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/191/H3644.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kenneth I. Gordon — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Barrett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-01** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Senate concurred
- **2019-04-29** Hearing scheduled for 05/07/2019 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-1
- **2019-05-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-05-16** Rules suspended
- **2019-05-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-06-20** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-07-18** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-07-18** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-07-22** Enacted - 159 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 82) `passage`
- **2019-07-22** Enacted -see Roll Call #83 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2019-07-22** Laid before the Governor
- **2019-07-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 42 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/e79716d1-7c3f-48ac-ab8e-99aec4e7b940`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).