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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the conservation commission of the town of Westford to transfer certain easements to the select board of the town of Westford"
description: "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.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4140"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4140 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-10-19"
last_action: "2024-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5161a46-5898-44ce-9c13-962531b86635"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4140"
source_hash: "0970577d5d5e052724d3c77fbbaee7fde535a60b1c01875df3d2239e97749cef"
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 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4140.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5161a46-5898-44ce-9c13-962531b86635`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).