---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the continued employment of Jerry Shampang as an environmental police officer in the executive office of energy and environmental affairs"
description: "An Act authorizing the continued employment of Jerry Shampang as an environmental police officer in the executive office of energy and environmental affairs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2691"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2691 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-02-26"
last_action: "2024-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/285f88e3-89f9-4a9b-8fcc-f2f8024da5ed"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2691"
source_hash: "128176f9a1dbc291e984187141d7223134399062dd53e7994c12aa6b665c8eb3"
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 2691 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the continued employment of Jerry Shampang as an environmental police officer in the executive office of energy and environmental affairs

## 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/S2691.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-26** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
- **2024-02-26** Recommended new draft for S2464
- **2024-02-26** Substituted as a new draft for S2464
- **2024-02-26** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-02-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting the text of an amendment, see H4461 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-06** Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Rules suspended
- **2024-03-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment pending
- **2024-03-06** Read second `reading-2`
- **2024-03-06** Amendment (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered to the third reading
- **2024-03-06** Rules suspended
- **2024-03-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-14** Rules suspended
- **2024-03-14** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2024-03-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-03-18** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-03-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 63 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/285f88e3-89f9-4a9b-8fcc-f2f8024da5ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).