---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Northfield to establish the Grandin water district"
description: "Senate, September 8, 2022 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Comerford) for the Senate Bill authorizing the town of Northfield to establish the Grandin Water District (Senate, No. 2938)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 3116"
citation: "Massachusetts S 3116 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joanne M. Comerford"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-09-08"
last_action: "2022-11-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97e960f0-4a11-4ef2-ba88-9363fcaeb8c0"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S3116"
source_hash: "10741b866971e7f3c49e7169a1b580d4d2dc49d89200aa190320543d70bc1c16"
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 3116 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Northfield to establish the Grandin water district

Senate, September 8, 2022 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Comerford) for the Senate Bill authorizing the town of Northfield to establish the Grandin Water District (Senate, No. 2938).

## 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/S3116.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joanne M. Comerford — primary (person)
- Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)
- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-09-08** New draft (Comerford) for S2938
- **2022-09-08** Ordered to a third reading
- **2022-09-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-09-12** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-10-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-10-06** Rules suspended
- **2022-10-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-10-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-10-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 257 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/97e960f0-4a11-4ef2-ba88-9363fcaeb8c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).