---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the A-B-C Stormwater Flooding Board"
description: "By Mr. Brownsberger, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2127) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of William N. Brownsberger for legislation relative to the A-B-C Stormwater Flooding Board. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2127"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2127 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William N. Brownsberger"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-06-05"
last_action: "2017-11-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcc3c878-6352-4c49-ab39-2b9a931379f5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2127"
source_hash: "8a6896ea6d5c909716db8ca29b20d915a0d71aefa4b61394e073a637e589d900"
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 2127 (190th) — An Act relative to the A-B-C Stormwater Flooding Board

By Mr. Brownsberger, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2127) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of William N. Brownsberger for legislation relative to the A-B-C Stormwater Flooding Board. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.

## 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/S2127.pdf)

## Sponsors

- William N. Brownsberger — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-05** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-07** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-07** Referred to the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-20** House concurred
- **2017-07-21** Hearing scheduled for 07/26/2017 from 01:00 PM-02:00 PM in B-1
- **2017-07-27** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-09-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment
- **2017-09-25** Rules suspended
- **2017-09-25** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Rules), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-09-27** Read; and referred to the committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling. `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-10-04** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-11-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-11-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-11-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-11-08** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-11-09** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-11-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 119 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/bcc3c878-6352-4c49-ab39-2b9a931379f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).