---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act validating certain proceedings of the town of Concord"
description: "Senate, September 25, 2018 -- Message from His Excellency the Governor (pursuant to Article II, Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation validating certain proceedings of the town of Concord"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2665"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2665 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-09-27"
last_action: "2018-11-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33e01c16-5541-4c21-b741-7aa3b8866140"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2665"
source_hash: "b675393540548b0fa733372baf937863d88d59f9982c0fa37759cc0680540bcc"
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 2665 (190th) — An Act validating certain proceedings of the town of Concord

Senate, September 25, 2018 -- Message from His Excellency the Governor (pursuant to Article II, Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation validating certain proceedings of the town of Concord

## 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/S2665.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-09-27** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-09-27** House concurred
- **2018-10-04** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-10-04** Rules suspended
- **2018-10-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-10-11** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-10-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-10-15** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-10-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-10-29** Rules suspended
- **2018-10-29** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-10-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-10-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-11-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 290 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/33e01c16-5541-4c21-b741-7aa3b8866140`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).