republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/s-2894.md

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Bill	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).	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	S 2894	Massachusetts S 2894 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	23	0	2024-07-25	2024-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/41588cdd-01e7-4777-91a6-015e461f687e	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2894	3cdfcb5d28ca1661a3ec76a91f461073da4cef70f3899b7fe35ca7cad34338f6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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

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; origin ocd-bill/41588cdd-01e7-4777-91a6-015e461f687e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).