---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act renaming the board of selectmen in the town of Hingham to the select board"
description: "Senate, February 17, 2022 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator O'Connor) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2491."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2588"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2588 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick M. O'Connor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-02-17"
last_action: "2022-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c2a8d20-8798-4c57-8b44-8bc8b6b4659d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2588"
source_hash: "a71eaa2925280e6b5a7cdbc522950d398608c45d47a72a6beea618692c0ab33d"
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 2588 (192nd) — An Act renaming the board of selectmen in the town of Hingham to the select board

Senate, February 17, 2022 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator O'Connor) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2491.

## 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/S2588.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Patrick M. O'Connor — primary (person)
- Joan Meschino — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-17** Recommended new draft (O'Connor) for S2491
- **2022-02-17** Substituted for S2491
- **2022-02-17** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-02-24** Rules suspended
- **2022-02-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-03-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-03-24** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-03-24** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-03-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 37 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/9c2a8d20-8798-4c57-8b44-8bc8b6b4659d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).