---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act regulating special police officers in the city known as the town of Agawam"
description: "Senate, December 20, 2021 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Velis) as a new draft for Senate, No. 1369."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2589"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2589 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John C. Velis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-12-20"
last_action: "2022-12-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42df60c5-5b8a-4cd7-b828-4cad08d7a203"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2589"
source_hash: "ad150f6d94ea9913fe4755113396f264f914c74de3f07100abd925e87956c72b"
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 2589 (192nd) — An Act regulating special police officers in the city known as the town of Agawam

Senate, December 20, 2021 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Velis) as a new draft for Senate, No. 1369.

## 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/S2589.pdf)

## Sponsors

- John C. Velis — primary (person)
- John C. Velis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-12-20** Recommended new draft (Velis) for S1369
- **2021-12-20** Substituted for S1369
- **2021-12-20** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2021-12-23** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-12-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-12-30** Rules suspended
- **2021-12-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-12-05** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-12-12** Rules suspended
- **2022-12-12** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2022-12-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-12-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 315 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/42df60c5-5b8a-4cd7-b828-4cad08d7a203`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).