---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of New Bedford to grant a utility easement to the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth"
description: "Senate, July 25, 2024 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill authorizing the city of New Bedford to grant a utility easement to the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. (Senate, No. 2412),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment entitled \"An Act authorizing the city of New Bedford to grant a utility easement to the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth\" (Senate, No. 2894)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2894"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2894 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-25"
last_action: "2024-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41588cdd-01e7-4777-91a6-015e461f687e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2894"
source_hash: "3cdfcb5d28ca1661a3ec76a91f461073da4cef70f3899b7fe35ca7cad34338f6"
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 2894 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the city of New Bedford to grant a utility easement to the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Senate, July 25, 2024 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill authorizing the city of New Bedford to grant a utility easement to the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. (Senate, No. 2412),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment entitled "An Act authorizing the city of New Bedford to grant a utility easement to the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth" (Senate, No. 2894).

## 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/S2894.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Antonio F. D. Cabral — cosponsor (person)
- Mark C. Montigny — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-07-25** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
- **2024-07-25** Recommended new draft for S2412
- **2024-07-25** Substituted for S2412
- **2024-07-25** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-07-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-29** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-31** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H4962 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-31** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment pending
- **2024-07-31** Read second `reading-2`
- **2024-07-31** Amendment (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2024-07-31** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-31** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-31** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2024-08-01** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-08-01** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-08-01** Enacted - 152 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 198 ) `passage`
- **2024-08-01** Enacted -see Roll Call #248 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2024-08-01** Laid before the Governor
- **2024-08-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 175 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/41588cdd-01e7-4777-91a6-015e461f687e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).