---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a town manager in the town of West Newbury"
description: "Senate, September 21, 2017 -- Substituted by amendment (Senator Tarr) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2067"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2161"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2161 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-09-21"
last_action: "2017-10-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7a48031-42cd-4065-97f1-7dc1608fb150"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2161"
source_hash: "fada6317da2a6dbc00e1c796b32f2f4516258422079ac0bbc3929a20f1a5a891"
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 2161 (190th) — An Act establishing a town manager in the town of West Newbury

Senate, September 21, 2017 -- Substituted by amendment (Senator Tarr) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2067

## 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/S2161.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-09-21** New draft of S2067
- **2017-09-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-09-25** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-09-27** Rules suspended
- **2017-09-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-10-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-10-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-10-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 97 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/e7a48031-42cd-4065-97f1-7dc1608fb150`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).