---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Milton to use certain land acquired for conservation purposes for school purposes"
description: "Senate, June 27, 2024 - New draft (Senator Timilty) to Senate Bill authorizing the town of Milton to use certain property for school purposes (Senate, No. 2549)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2840"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2840 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walter F. Timilty"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-06-27"
last_action: "2024-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7dc2b44f-6dd4-46ef-bcd6-ab42d91e4a2c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2840"
source_hash: "9a9cbd13c7240284baf6decb5e447ed10a660436ced1fae5552a8df0db2490b2"
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 2840 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Milton to use certain land acquired for conservation purposes for school purposes

Senate, June 27, 2024 - New draft (Senator Timilty) to Senate Bill authorizing the town of Milton to use certain property for school purposes (Senate, No. 2549).

## 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/193/S2840.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Walter F. Timilty — primary (person)
- Brandy Fluker Oakley — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Driscoll, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-27** Recommended new draft (Timilty) for S2549
- **2024-06-27** Substituted for S2549
- **2024-06-27** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-07-01** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-07-02** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-07-17** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-17** Read third, amended by substitution of a new text (H4883) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-19** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-19** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2024-07-24** Enacted - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 137 ) `passage`
- **2024-07-24** Enacted -see Roll Call #218 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2024-07-24** Laid before the Governor
- **2024-07-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 147 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7dc2b44f-6dd4-46ef-bcd6-ab42d91e4a2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).