Files
2026-07-06 17:27:20 -04:00

72 lines
4.4 KiB
Markdown

---
type: "Bill"
title: "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"
description: "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)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2603"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2603 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-16"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1041e53-f860-44f5-b3fa-96df02458b13"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2603"
source_hash: "82b2e26649b26cc44fb424785079e3a0083f52929193d7bc6b9ceeca0580c234"
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 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2603.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1041e53-f860-44f5-b3fa-96df02458b13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).