---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act creating a Parks and Recreation Commission in the town of Templeton"
description: "By Ms. Gobi, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2574) of Anne M. Gobi, Susannah M. Whipps, Joanne M. Comerford and Jonathan D. Zlotnik (by vote of the town) for legislation to create a Parks and Recreation Commission in the town of Templeton. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local approval received]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2574"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2574 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anne M. Gobi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-11-09"
last_action: "2022-12-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c229a6c4-4b07-49e6-986a-36a9e8e46f04"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2574"
source_hash: "bade061bda2e1feae321f30196043b73eb928aa6dd72cd516861fe83a9eb1238"
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 2574 (192nd) — An Act creating a Parks and Recreation Commission in the town of Templeton

By Ms. Gobi, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2574) of Anne M. Gobi, Susannah M. Whipps, Joanne M. Comerford and Jonathan D. Zlotnik (by vote of the town) for legislation to create a Parks and Recreation Commission in the town of Templeton. 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/S2574.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Anne M. Gobi — primary (person)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan D. Zlotnik — cosponsor (person)
- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-09** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-24** House concurred
- **2022-01-11** Hearing scheduled for 01/18/2022 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-01-26** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-05-02** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-05-02** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-05-05** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2022-11-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-12-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-12-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-12-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 311 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/c229a6c4-4b07-49e6-986a-36a9e8e46f04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).