---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to handicapped parking"
description: "Senate October 12, 2017, – Text of the Senate Bill relative to handicapped parking (being the text of Senate document number 2168, printed as amended)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2178"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2178 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-10-12"
last_action: "2017-11-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f3504f6-cea2-44e7-b7f8-32fd9fb9ea6e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2178"
source_hash: "27246dd24b0d6309c74df2b9ee2818d00df675cc68c06b88a0b058ec74e5b80a"
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 2178 (190th) — An Act relative to handicapped parking

Senate October 12, 2017, – Text of the Senate Bill relative to handicapped parking (being the text of Senate document number 2168, printed as amended)

## 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/S2178.pdf)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-12** Text of S2168, printed as amended
- **2017-10-12** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #134 [YEAS 37 to NAYS 0] `passage`
- **2017-10-16** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-25** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-25** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-10-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment (H3973) pending
- **2017-10-25** Read second, amended by substitution of a new text (H3973) and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-25** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-25** Read third `reading-3`
- **2017-10-25** Passed to be engrossed - 152 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 272) `passage`
- **2017-11-14** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-14** Senate concurred in the House amendment with a further amendment, substituting a new text, see S2214
- **2017-11-15** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-15** House concurred in the Senate further amendment
- **2017-11-15** Enacted - 158 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 299) `passage`
- **2017-11-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-11-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 137 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/3f3504f6-cea2-44e7-b7f8-32fd9fb9ea6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).