---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing the department of inspectional services and permitting in the town of Lakeville"
description: "By Representative Orrall of Lakeville and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2780) of Keiko M. Orrall and Michael J. Rodrigues (by vote of the town) that the town of Lakeville be authorized to establish a department of inspectional services and permitting for said town . Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 2780"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2780 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-03-13"
last_action: "2017-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb452d29-6c30-414a-b1a7-8858820a7652"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H2780"
source_hash: "2948c84ae4af43d4d9d3ca8530a39226f874f6c2d0da5ea1dd70037f6421c8d6"
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 H 2780 (190th) — An Act establishing the department of inspectional services and permitting in the town of Lakeville

By Representative Orrall of Lakeville and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2780) of Keiko M. Orrall and Michael J. Rodrigues (by vote of the town) that the town of Lakeville be authorized to establish a department of inspectional services and permitting for said town . 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/190/H2780.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Keiko M. Orrall — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-03-13** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Senate concurred
- **2017-04-03** Hearing scheduled for 04/11/2017 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in A2
- **2017-04-13** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-04-20** Rules suspended
- **2017-04-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-05-15** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2017-09-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-09-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-09-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-10-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 88 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb452d29-6c30-414a-b1a7-8858820a7652`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).