---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for a gender neutral charter in the town of Middleborough"
description: "Senate, March 17, 2022 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Pacheco) as a new draft for Senate, No. 1354."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2778"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2778 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marc R. Pacheco"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-03-17"
last_action: "2022-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c2d4b64-8e54-46f7-af5b-ccb0dc5f7790"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2778"
source_hash: "e210a1a4a6af9e7ff6260b91bb8e854cb97965ea6a85c5bd937134a8abb788fd"
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 2778 (192nd) — An Act providing for a gender neutral charter in the town of Middleborough

Senate, March 17, 2022 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Pacheco) as a new draft for Senate, No. 1354.

## 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/S2778.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Marc R. Pacheco — primary (person)
- Kathleen R. LaNatra — cosponsor (person)
- Norman J. Orrall — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Williams Gifford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-17** Recommended new draft (Pacheco) for S1354
- **2022-03-17** Substituted for S1354
- **2022-03-17** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2022-05-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-06-13** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-06-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 94 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/9c2d4b64-8e54-46f7-af5b-ccb0dc5f7790`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).