---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the commonwealth to dispose of certain parcels of land in the town of Upton acquired for conservation and recreation purposes"
description: "Senate, July 31, 2025 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Fattman) for the Senate Bill providing for the disposition of certain property in the town of Upton (Senate, No. 2135)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 2576"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2576 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ryan C. Fattman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-07-31"
last_action: "2025-12-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4db3b227-653a-40cc-9ced-fdd429b5d157"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2576"
source_hash: "3f5474f408002c178b09764af21070e6f784bc9ac7be0bc0cf8dce446c0dbfbf"
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 2576 (194th) — An Act authorizing the commonwealth to dispose of certain parcels of land in the town of Upton acquired for conservation and recreation purposes

Senate, July 31, 2025 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Fattman) for the Senate Bill providing for the disposition of certain property in the town of Upton (Senate, No. 2135).

## 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/194/S2576.pdf)

## Votes

- S. 2576 On Enactment Land Taking — **158–0** (pass) · lower
- Adoption of the amendment — **fail** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ryan C. Fattman — primary (person)
- David K. Muradian, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-31** New draft (Fattman) for S2135
- **2025-07-31** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2025-08-04** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-18** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-11-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment (H4766) pending
- **2025-11-18** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-18** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) `reading-2`
- **2025-11-18** Ordered to a third reading
- **2025-11-19** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-19** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-19** Senate concurred the House amendment
- **2025-11-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-11-19** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2025-11-19** Enacted - 158 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 112 ) `passage`
- **2025-11-19** Enacted -see Roll Call #108 (Yeas 37 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2025-11-19** Laid before the Governor
- **2025-12-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 74 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4db3b227-653a-40cc-9ced-fdd429b5d157`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).