S2968 • 2025

An Act authorizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting by and through its Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, to grant permanent easements over certain land in the town of Milton for highway purposes

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Sponsor: Ways and Means (S)
Last action: 2026-03-02
Official status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act authorizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting by and through its Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, to grant permanent easements over certain land in the town of Milton for highway purposes

An Act authorizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting by and through its Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, to grant permanent easements over certain land in the town of Milton for highway purposes Senate, February 26, 2026 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill authorizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting by and through its Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, to grant permanent easements over certain land in the town of Milton for highway purposes (Senate, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act authorizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting by and through its Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, to grant permanent easements over certain land in the town of Milton for highway purposes Senate, February 26, 2026 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill authorizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting by and through its Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, to grant permanent easements over certain land in the town of Milton for highway purposes (Senate, No.
2657),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No.
2968).
Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill History

2026-03-02 House
Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-02-26 Senate
Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
2026-02-26 Senate
Recommended new draft for S2657
2026-02-26 Senate
Substituted as a new draft for S2657
2026-02-26 Senate
Ordered to a third reading
2026-02-26 Senate
Read third and passed to be engrossed

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting by and through its Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, to grant permanent easements over certain land in the town of Milton for highway purposes
Senate, February 26, 2026 -- The committee on Senate Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill authorizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting by and through its Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, to grant permanent easements over certain land in the town of Milton for highway purposes (Senate, No. 2657),- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2968).
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill S.2968

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding sections 32 to 38, inclusive, of chapter 7C of the General Laws or any general or special law to the contrary, the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, in consultation with the commissioner of

conservation and recreation, may transfer to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation for highway purposes certain parcels of land under the care and control of the department of conservation and recreation and located

in the town of Milton and identified as permanent easement parcel numbers 8-E-3, 8-E-4, 8-HL-1, 8-HL-2, 8-HL-3, 8-HL-PUE-4, 8-HS-1, 8-W-4, 8-D-1 and 8-PUE-W-5 on a plan of land entitled, “Massachusetts Department of Transportation Highway Division Plan and Profile of Reconstruction of Randolph Avenue (Route 28) at Chickatawbut Road in the town of Milton Norfolk County Federal Aid Project No. Preliminary Right of Way Plans”, which is on file with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

SECTION 2. (a) As mitigation for the transfers described in section 1, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation shall compensate the department of conservation and recreation in an amount not less than 110 per cent of the fair market value or value in use of the impacted lands, whichever is greater, as determined by an independent professional appraisal prepared in accordance with the usual and customary professional appraisal practice by a qualified appraiser commissioned by the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, in consultation with the commissioner of conservation and recreation.

(b) The department of conservation and recreation shall deposit such funds into the Conservation Trust established in section 1 of chapter 132A of the General Laws and shall expend such funds within 3 years to acquire land or interests in land, which it shall permanently hold and manage for conservation and recreation purposes and which shall be in a comparable location and of equal or greater natural resource value as determined by the secretary of energy and environmental affairs.

(c) The commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall submit the appraisal and a report thereon to the inspector general for review and comment. The inspector general shall review and approve the appraisal and the review shall include an examination of the methodology utilized for the appraisal. The inspector general shall prepare a report of the review and file the report with the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, who shall submit copies of the appraisal and the inspector general’s report and comments, if any, to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the

joint committee on state administration and regulatory oversight not less than 15 days prior to the execution of the conveyance authorized in section 1.

SECTION 3. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation shall assume all costs associated with engineering, surveys, appraisals, deed preparation and other expenses necessary to execute the conveyances authorized in section 1.

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