---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Town of Hamilton to establish a special fund for the Patton Homestead"
description: "By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2245) of Bruce E. Tarr and Bradford R. Hill (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the Town of Hamilton to establish a special fund for the Patton Homestead. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2245"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2245 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2f66dc9-b407-464f-ae74-0e47bbe44617"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2245"
source_hash: "56f2dac224e8e9b3fec2cfd4ad81e92a5334145288655beea3b5239e557f747c"
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 2245 (190th) — An Act authorizing the Town of Hamilton to establish a special fund for the Patton Homestead

By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2245) of Bruce E. Tarr and Bradford R. Hill (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the Town of Hamilton to establish a special fund for the Patton Homestead. 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/S2245.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
- Bradford R. Hill — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** House concurred
- **2018-01-25** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-08** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-04-17** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-04-17** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-04-17** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-04-17** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-04-19** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-04-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-04-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-05-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 84 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/a2f66dc9-b407-464f-ae74-0e47bbe44617`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).