---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to a Wareham Redevelopment Authority"
description: "By Mr. Pacheco, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2145) of Marc R. Pacheco and Susan Williams Gifford (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to a Wareham Redevelopment Authority. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2145"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2145 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marc R. Pacheco"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-08-03"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd1b429a-7e4d-4e45-8cf8-48a0bffc0408"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2145"
source_hash: "242de6f835f3ca918b29f83f69501b2f140729c3a996b556828683c98b9a6359"
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 2145 (190th) — An Act relative to a Wareham Redevelopment Authority

By Mr. Pacheco, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2145) of Marc R. Pacheco and Susan Williams Gifford (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to a Wareham Redevelopment Authority. 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/S2145.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Marc R. Pacheco — primary (person)
- Susan Williams Gifford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-08-03** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-07** House concurred
- **2017-09-05** Hearing scheduled for 09/12/2017 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-2
- **2017-09-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-10-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-01-05** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-01-08** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-01-16** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-02-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-03-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 38 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd1b429a-7e4d-4e45-8cf8-48a0bffc0408`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).