---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act changing the name of the board of selectmen in the town of Newbury to the select board"
description: "Senate, May 12, 2022 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Tarr) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2451."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2875"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2875 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-05-12"
last_action: "2022-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ccb883f1-4ae1-457a-97ba-746f6d55c0b2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2875"
source_hash: "91492d53c5a6a2d2a9d6eedb6ee31755861a2bb592c2843f0a85d3ba7dc6da17"
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 2875 (192nd) — An Act changing the name of the board of selectmen in the town of Newbury to the select board

Senate, May 12, 2022 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Tarr) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2451.

## 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/S2875.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
- Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government — cosponsor (person)
- Lenny Mirra — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-12** Recommended new draft (Tarr) for S2451
- **2022-05-12** Substituted for S2451
- **2022-05-12** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-05-16** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2022-07-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-09-06** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-09-08** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-09-08** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-09-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 217 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/ccb883f1-4ae1-457a-97ba-746f6d55c0b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).