---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the permanent intermittent police force for the city of Methuen"
description: "By Mrs. Campbell of Methuen, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2147) of Linda Dean Campbell relative to the permanent intermittent police force for the city of Methuen. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 2147"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2147 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Linda Dean Campbell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2022-11-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41916118-794b-45d6-a201-1b810fdda4fb"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H2147"
source_hash: "6920c8948d50384d391f0ae9c4efdf5e82b958737eabf103a2b98823acc80958"
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 H 2147 (192nd) — An Act relative to the permanent intermittent police force for the city of Methuen

By Mrs. Campbell of Methuen, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2147) of Linda Dean Campbell relative to the permanent intermittent police force for the city of Methuen. 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/192/H2147.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Linda Dean Campbell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Senate concurred
- **2021-06-15** Hearing scheduled for 06/22/2021 from 11:00 AM-03:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-08-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-09-13** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-09-13** Rules suspended
- **2021-09-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-10-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-10-21** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2021-11-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-10-24** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-10-24** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-10-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-01** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 251 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41916118-794b-45d6-a201-1b810fdda4fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).