---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the charter of the town of North Andover"
description: "Senate, October 25, 2021 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senators Tarr and DiZoglio) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2497."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2561"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2561 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-10-25"
last_action: "2021-12-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5d0e9fc-534f-4a0e-b492-91c2e7a3c2ac"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2561"
source_hash: "38dc9178ace225bd8501c5f62d151c755209f018acc94413b15df70570f7b2af"
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 2561 (192nd) — An Act amending the charter of the town of North Andover

Senate, October 25, 2021 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senators Tarr and DiZoglio) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2497.

## 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/S2561.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Christina A. Minicucci — cosponsor (person)
- Diana DiZoglio — cosponsor (person)
- Diana DiZoglio — cosponsor (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-25** Recommended new draft (Tarr) for S2497
- **2021-10-25** Substituted for S2497
- **2021-10-25** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2021-10-25** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-11-10** Rules suspended
- **2021-11-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-12-09** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-12-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-12-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-12-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 105 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e5d0e9fc-534f-4a0e-b492-91c2e7a3c2ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).