republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/190th/s-2603.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to grant easements to NSTAR electric company d/b/a Eversource Energy in return for NSTAR releasing or modifying easements for the benefit of the Commonwealth	SENATE, July 16, 2018 - The committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2593) of Viriato M. deMacedo and David T. Vieira for legislation to authorize the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to grant easements to NSTAR electric company d/b/a Eversource Energy in return for NSTAR releasing or modifying easements for the benefit of the Commonwealth,- reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2603).	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	S 2603	Massachusetts S 2603 (190th)	bill		enacted	Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight	1	19	0	2018-07-16	2018-08-09	openstates	ocd-bill/b1041e53-f860-44f5-b3fa-96df02458b13	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2603	82b2e26649b26cc44fb424785079e3a0083f52929193d7bc6b9ceeca0580c234	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2603 (190th) — An Act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to grant easements to NSTAR electric company d/b/a Eversource Energy in return for NSTAR releasing or modifying easements for the benefit of the Commonwealth

SENATE, July 16, 2018 - The committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2593) of Viriato M. deMacedo and David T. Vieira for legislation to authorize the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to grant easements to NSTAR electric company d/b/a Eversource Energy in return for NSTAR releasing or modifying easements for the benefit of the Commonwealth,- reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2603).

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-07-16 Reported from the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight
• 2018-07-16 New draft of S2593
• 2018-07-16 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-07-24 Committee recommended ought to pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-07-24 Rules suspended
• 2018-07-24 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2018-07-25 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2018-07-25 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2018-07-26 Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2018-07-27 Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-07-27 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2018-07-27 Rules suspended
• 2018-07-27 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2018-07-27 Rules suspended
• 2018-07-27 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2018-07-31 Enacted - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 496) passage
• 2018-07-31 Enacted - Roll Call #546 [YEAS 36 to NAYS 0] passage
• 2018-07-31 Laid before the Governor
• 2018-08-09 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 216 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b1041e53-f860-44f5-b3fa-96df02458b13. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).