---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the County Commissioners of Dukes County to appoint a treasurer who may not be a resident of the county"
description: "By Mr. Cyr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1288) of Julian Cyr and Dylan A. Fernandes for legislation to authorize the County Commissioners of Dukes County to appoint a treasurer who may not be a resident of the county. Municipalities and Regional Government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 1288"
citation: "Massachusetts S 1288 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julian Cyr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2024-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4438afa-5e33-47a1-a71a-42dbefdc950a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S1288"
source_hash: "fc1067336dc7933723c8c2ae2dcc7b13d1d34d294250e1ef58cec8069e9a5c01"
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 1288 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the County Commissioners of Dukes County to appoint a treasurer who may not be a resident of the county

By Mr. Cyr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1288) of Julian Cyr and Dylan A. Fernandes for legislation to authorize the County Commissioners of Dukes County to appoint a treasurer who may not be a resident of the county. Municipalities and Regional Government.

## 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/S1288.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Julian Cyr — primary (person)
- Dylan A. Fernandes — 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** House concurred
- **2023-04-04** Hearing scheduled for 04/11/2023 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
- **2023-07-03** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-01-08** Rules suspended
- **2024-01-08** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-01-10** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-01-11** Rules suspended
- **2024-01-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-02-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 28 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/c4438afa-5e33-47a1-a71a-42dbefdc950a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).