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Bill	An Act authorizing the town of Tewksbury to use a certain parcel of land for general recreational purposes	Senate, July 31, 2024 - New draft (Senator Finegold) to Senate Bill authorizing the town of Tewksbury to convert a certain parcel of land to general recreational purposes (Senate, No. 2819).	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	S 2916	Massachusetts S 2916 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Barry R. Finegold	1	19	0	2024-07-31	2024-08-13	openstates	ocd-bill/3b729568-db46-4f27-bc0c-34bb62e051f2	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2916	ea42d6ff1594902a9c53ee7acbea0bcdb97de7c30edd4f5152306f8a61ed77e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2916 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Tewksbury to use a certain parcel of land for general recreational purposes

Senate, July 31, 2024 - New draft (Senator Finegold) to Senate Bill authorizing the town of Tewksbury to convert a certain parcel of land to general recreational purposes (Senate, No. 2819).

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Barry R. Finegold — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-07-31 New draft (Finegold) for S2819
• 2024-07-31 Passed to be engrossed passage
• 2024-07-31 Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2024-08-01 Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the text of H4971 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-01 Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending referral-committee
• 2024-08-01 Rules suspended
• 2024-08-01 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment pending
• 2024-08-01 Read second reading-2
• 2024-08-01 Amendment (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) adopted amendment-passage
• 2024-08-01 Ordered to the third reading
• 2024-08-01 Rules suspended
• 2024-08-01 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-05 Rules suspended
• 2024-08-05 Senate concurred in the House amendment
• 2024-08-08 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2024-08-08 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2024-08-08 Enacted passage
• 2024-08-08 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-08-13 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 181 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b729568-db46-4f27-bc0c-34bb62e051f2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).