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H4648 • 2025

An Act relative to the purchase or lease of certain property known as Fenn Farm in the town of Stockbridge

An Act relative to the purchase or lease of certain property known as Fenn Farm in the town of Stockbridge

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Sponsor
Davis, Leigh
Last action
2026-01-15
Official status
Referred to Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act relative to the purchase or lease of certain property known as Fenn Farm in the town of Stockbridge

An Act relative to the purchase or lease of certain property known as Fenn Farm in the town of Stockbridge By Representative Davis of Great Barrington and Senator Mark, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Leigh Davis relative to the purchase or lease of a certain property known as Fenn Farm.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to the purchase or lease of certain property known as Fenn Farm in the town of Stockbridge By Representative Davis of Great Barrington and Senator Mark, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Leigh Davis relative to the purchase or lease of a certain property known as Fenn Farm.
  • State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
  • Status: Referred to Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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. 2026-01-15 Senate

    Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading

  2. 2026-01-12 House

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  3. 2025-12-29 House

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

  4. 2025-12-29 House

    Rules suspended

  5. 2025-12-29 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  6. 2025-12-11 House

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

  7. 2025-10-29 Joint

    Hearing rescheduled to 11/05/2025 from 10:30 AM-01:00 PM in B-2 and Virtual Hearing location changed

  8. 2025-10-27 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 11/05/2025 from 10:30 AM-01:00 PM in A-2

  9. 2025-10-23 Senate

    Senate concurred

  10. 2025-10-22 House

    Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

  11. 2025-08-07 House

    Referred to the committee on House Rules

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to the purchase or lease of certain property known as Fenn Farm in the town of Stockbridge
By Representative Davis of Great Barrington and Senator Mark, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Leigh Davis relative to the purchase or lease of a certain property known as Fenn Farm. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
Status:
Referred to Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.4648

Notwithstanding section 11 of chapter 21N of the General Laws or any other general or special law or rule or regulation to the contrary, no conservation restrictions are required as a condition for receiving state money for the purchase or lease of any interest in land by the Stockbridge-Munsee Community of the Mohican Nation of 372.550 acres of undeveloped land known as Fenn Farm located at the northern tip of Monument Mountain in the town of Stockbridge.

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