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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to release its interest by deed or to grant an easement in a certain parcel of land in the City of Fall River"
description: "An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to release its interest by deed or to grant an easement in a certain parcel of land in the City of Fall River"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2780"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2780 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Senate Committee on Ways and Means"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-06-29"
last_action: "2020-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd2d0b6c-12c3-4022-9842-388a4506ead7"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2780"
source_hash: "67dcfe15509f70f7054487a97311491efaed6ce16593570a2235f5271d460ae6"
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 2780 (191st) — An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to release its interest by deed or to grant an easement in a certain parcel of land in the City of Fall River
## 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/191/S2780.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-06-29** Reported from the committee in Senate Ways and Means
- **2020-06-29** Recommended new draft for S2472
- **2020-06-29** Substituted as a new draft for S2472
- **2020-06-29** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-06-29** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-06-30** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-29** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text contained in House document numbered 4914 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-07-29** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendments pending `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading, with the amendment pending
- **2020-07-29** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-29** Read second `reading-2`
- **2020-07-29** Amendment (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2020-07-29** Ordered to a third reading
- **2020-07-30** Rule suspended
- **2020-07-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-30** Senate concurs in the House amendment
- **2020-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-08-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 139 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd2d0b6c-12c3-4022-9842-388a4506ead7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).