---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the charter of the town of Ipswich to make it gender neutral and to further regulate town operations"
description: "November 14, 2019 - New draft (Senator Tarr) to the Senate Bill relative to gender neutral redraft of the town charter of Ipswich (Senate, No. 1203)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2406"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2406 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-11-14"
last_action: "2020-01-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75510f3f-4a67-49f1-bb47-82f641fbf42b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2406"
source_hash: "aba9e5ef7ed73eb475c423e7564d026f48eb1e554cb7dffd9f9ad4689f5080f3"
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 2406 (191st) — An Act amending the charter of the town of Ipswich to make it gender neutral and to further regulate town operations

November 14, 2019 - New draft (Senator Tarr) to the Senate Bill relative to gender neutral redraft of the town charter of Ipswich (Senate, No. 1203).

## 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/191/S2406.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-11-14** Recommended new draft (Tarr) for S1203
- **2019-11-14** Substituted for S1203
- **2019-11-14** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2019-11-18** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2019-11-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-11-26** Rules suspended
- **2019-11-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-12-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-12-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-12-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-01-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 152 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75510f3f-4a67-49f1-bb47-82f641fbf42b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).