---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a department of public works in the town of Tyngsborough"
description: "By Representative Garry of Dracut, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2052) of Colleen M. Garry (by vote of the town) relative to establishing a department of public works in the town of Tyngsborough. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 2052"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2052 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Colleen M. Garry"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2024-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e5a5ed2-a91b-497e-95ed-ba0c3ba253f2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H2052"
source_hash: "63057976f2335b0be80249566b003be0d9442d9afd4c6f52d6f3ebeaabe3d7c7"
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 H 2052 (193rd) — An Act establishing a department of public works in the town of Tyngsborough

By Representative Garry of Dracut, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2052) of Colleen M. Garry (by vote of the town) relative to establishing a department of public works in the town of Tyngsborough. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/193/H2052.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Colleen M. Garry — primary (person)
- Edward J. Kennedy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Senate concurred
- **2023-06-12** Hearing scheduled for 06/20/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2023-09-25** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-10-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-10-12** Rules suspended
- **2023-10-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-10-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-10-30** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-01-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-04-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-04-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-04-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e5a5ed2-a91b-497e-95ed-ba0c3ba253f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).