---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Harvard to convey an easement over a certain parcel of conservation land"
description: "Senate, July 30, 2020 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Eldridge) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2779."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2866"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2866 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James B. Eldridge"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-07-30"
last_action: "2020-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b462dfe-c9be-4d68-9ebc-8194be36488c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2866"
source_hash: "39caa5b18b5b0143246b0126881a0f4805616ea1e4297f00cad879bda60c0013"
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 2866 (191st) — An Act authorizing the town of Harvard to convey an easement over a certain parcel of conservation land

Senate, July 30, 2020 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Eldridge) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2779.

## 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/S2866.pdf)

## Sponsors

- James B. Eldridge — primary (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-30** New draft of S2779
- **2020-07-30** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-07-30** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted - 158 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 257) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted -see Roll Call #275 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-08-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 136 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b462dfe-c9be-4d68-9ebc-8194be36488c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).