---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the trustees of the bathing beach in the town of Hingham to enter into a lease for the operation of the bathhouse facility and surrounding grounds"
description: "By Mr. O'Connor, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 22) of Patrick M. O'Connor (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to a lease for the bathing beach bathhouse facility and surrounding grounds located on Otis Street in Hingham. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 22"
citation: "Massachusetts S 22 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick M. O'Connor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-02-21"
last_action: "2017-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0eb90bce-de36-46b4-a0d7-d4164ede89e8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S22"
source_hash: "22b9a6d699471ecb030651d2217e235dddfe3c59f8e3e5877db77cbf26677487"
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 22 (190th) — An Act authorizing the trustees of the bathing beach in the town of Hingham to enter into a lease for the operation of the bathhouse facility and surrounding grounds

By Mr. O'Connor, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 22) of Patrick M. O'Connor (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to a lease for the bathing beach bathhouse facility and surrounding grounds located on Otis Street in Hingham. 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/S22.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Patrick M. O'Connor — primary (person)
- Joan Meschino — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-21** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** House 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 placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-03** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2017-05-03** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-05-04** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-05-04** Rules suspended
- **2017-05-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-05-10** Enacted - 150 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 55) `passage`
- **2017-05-23** Enacted -see Roll Call #18 [37 YEAS - 0 NAYS] `passage`
- **2017-05-23** Laid before the Governor
- **2017-06-01** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 19 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/0eb90bce-de36-46b4-a0d7-d4164ede89e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).