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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Milton to use certain land acquired for conservation purposes for school purposes"
description: "By Mr. Driscoll, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2963) of William J. Driscoll, Jr. (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Milton to use certain land acquired for conservation purposes for school purposes. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 2963"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2963 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William J. Driscoll, Jr."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2026-02-19"
last_action: "2026-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8d550e6-d89a-4d5b-b84f-0ccf2877caab"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2963"
source_hash: "4fa195dbfc6107202ab6783c7dda8857de9ceb61c5b0e4fd5d2778670397f3c7"
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 2963 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Milton to use certain land acquired for conservation purposes for school purposes
By Mr. Driscoll, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2963) of William J. Driscoll, Jr. (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Milton to use certain land acquired for conservation purposes for school purposes. 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/194/S2963.pdf)
## Votes
- S. 2963 On Enactment Land Taking — **1490** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- William J. Driscoll, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-02-19** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25** House concurred
- **2026-02-26** Hearing scheduled for 03/03/2026 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in 222
- **2026-03-03** Hearing rescheduled to 03/03/2026 from 01:00 PM-01:30 PM in 222 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
- **2026-03-09** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-19** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-03-19** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2026-03-23** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-04-16** Rules suspended
- **2026-04-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-06-03** Rules suspended
- **2026-06-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-06-04** Enacted - 149 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 202 ) `passage`
- **2026-06-04** Enacted -see Roll Call #189 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2026-06-04** Laid before the Governor
- **2026-06-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 98 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8d550e6-d89a-4d5b-b84f-0ccf2877caab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).