---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act renaming the Board of Selectmen in the town of Cohasset to the Select Board and making certain other related gender-neutral changes"
description: "Senate, February 17, 2022 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator O'Connor) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2474."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2706"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2706 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick M. O'Connor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-02-17"
last_action: "2022-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/990fe8a1-07ae-440c-a5d3-551d78eb9828"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2706"
source_hash: "31b0cceb98e8afc5141e56ba231b41f7088c8b5d4a86280b7acf8a0c3a85eabe"
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 2706 (192nd) — An Act renaming the Board of Selectmen in the town of Cohasset to the Select Board and making certain other related gender-neutral changes

Senate, February 17, 2022 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator O'Connor) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2474.

## 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/S2706.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 S2474
- **2022-02-17** Substituted for S2474
- **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`
- **2022-04-07** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-04-21** Rules suspended
- **2022-04-21** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2022-04-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-04-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-05-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 56 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/990fe8a1-07ae-440c-a5d3-551d78eb9828`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).