---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain boat launch area in the town of Rutland as the Detective John D. Songy Boat Launch"
description: "By Ms. Gobi, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 535) of Anne M. Gobi and Kimberly N. Ferguson for legislation to designate a certain boat launch area in the town of Rutland as the Detective John D. Songy Boat Launch. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 535"
citation: "Massachusetts S 535 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anne M. Gobi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2022-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd898322-4141-4700-8cec-63cb4a0a3ce1"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S535"
source_hash: "1f983531b2ae56f78ef1c412949fd06c7bed955cf32954c07151a5b19947a2b9"
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 535 (192nd) — An Act designating a certain boat launch area in the town of Rutland as the Detective John D. Songy Boat Launch

By Ms. Gobi, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 535) of Anne M. Gobi and Kimberly N. Ferguson for legislation to designate a certain boat launch area in the town of Rutland as the Detective John D. Songy Boat Launch. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.

## 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/S535.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Anne M. Gobi — primary (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** House concurred
- **2021-04-27** Hearing scheduled for 05/04/2021 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-11-03** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-06-06** Rules suspended
- **2022-06-06** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read a third time and passed to be engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-06-08** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-06-21** Rules suspended
- **2022-06-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-07-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-06** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-07-07** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-07-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-07-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-07-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 106 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/cd898322-4141-4700-8cec-63cb4a0a3ce1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).