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Bill	An Act authorizing the conservation commission of the town of Westford to transfer certain easements to the select board of the town of Westford	By Representative Arciero of Westford and Senator Cronin, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4140) of James Arciero and John J. Cronin (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the conservation commission of the town of Westford to transfer certain easements to the select board of said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4140	Massachusetts H 4140 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	21	0	2023-10-19	2024-08-07	openstates	ocd-bill/a5161a46-5898-44ce-9c13-962531b86635	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4140	0970577d5d5e052724d3c77fbbaee7fde535a60b1c01875df3d2239e97749cef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4140 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the conservation commission of the town of Westford to transfer certain easements to the select board of the town of Westford

By Representative Arciero of Westford and Senator Cronin, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4140) of James Arciero and John J. Cronin (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the conservation commission of the town of Westford to transfer certain easements to the select board of said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• James Arciero — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-10-19 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2023-10-23 Senate concurred
• 2023-11-07 Hearing scheduled for 11/14/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
• 2023-12-28 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-01-04 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-01-04 Rules suspended
• 2024-01-04 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-01 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-03-14 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-07-30 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-07-30 Read third reading-3
• 2024-07-30 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2914 amendment-passage
• 2024-07-30 Passed to be engrossed passage
• 2024-07-31 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-07-31 Rules suspended
• 2024-07-31 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-07-31 Enacted - 157 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 171 ) passage
• 2024-07-31 Enacted -see Roll Call #230 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) passage
• 2024-07-31 Laid before the Governor
• 2024-08-07 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 161 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5161a46-5898-44ce-9c13-962531b86635. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).