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H3897 • 2025

An Act authorizing the city of Quincy to enter into a lease extension to Quarry Hills Associates, Limited Partnership

An Act authorizing the city of Quincy to enter into a lease extension to Quarry Hills Associates, Limited Partnership

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Sponsor
Bruce J. Ayers
Last action
2025-11-06
Official status
Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act authorizing the city of Quincy to enter into a lease extension to Quarry Hills Associates, Limited Partnership

An Act authorizing the city of Quincy to enter into a lease extension to Quarry Hills Associates, Limited Partnership By Representative Ayers of Quincy, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act authorizing the city of Quincy to enter into a lease extension to Quarry Hills Associates, Limited Partnership By Representative Ayers of Quincy, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3897) of Bruce J.
  • Ayers (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Quincy be authorized to enter into a lease extension to Quarry Hills Associates, Limited Partnership.
  • Municipalities and Regional Government.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-06 Senate

    Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means

  2. 2025-10-27 House

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  3. 2025-07-24 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  4. 2025-07-24 House

    Rules suspended

  5. 2025-07-24 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  6. 2025-07-14 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  7. 2025-06-17 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 06/24/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1

  8. 2025-06-05 Senate

    Senate concurred

  9. 2025-03-13 House

    Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the city of Quincy to enter into a lease extension to Quarry Hills Associates, Limited Partnership
By Representative Ayers of Quincy, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3897) of Bruce J. Ayers (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Quincy be authorized to enter into a lease extension to Quarry Hills Associates, Limited Partnership. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]
Status:
Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.3897

SECTION 1.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 40 and Chapter 30B of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the City of Quincy is hereby authorized to extend the lease of a certain parcel of land comprised of approximately 241.78 acres of land, together with any improvements thereon, located in Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts known as the former municipal sanitary landfill and adjacent parcels thereto, as authorized by Chapter 50 of the Acts of 1994, to Quarry Hills Associates, Limited Partnership for a period of up to fifty years.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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