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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Tewksbury to use a certain parcel of land for general recreational purposes"
description: "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)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2916"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2916 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry R. Finegold"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-31"
last_action: "2024-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b729568-db46-4f27-bc0c-34bb62e051f2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2916"
source_hash: "ea42d6ff1594902a9c53ee7acbea0bcdb97de7c30edd4f5152306f8a61ed77e2"
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 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2916.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b729568-db46-4f27-bc0c-34bb62e051f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).