---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to recall elected officials in the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea"
description: "By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 440) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (by vote of the town) for legislation to recall elected officials in the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 440"
citation: "Massachusetts S 440 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2024-12-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f726ae07-ad68-4404-b695-7ef9e2a1f393"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S440"
source_hash: "615176619814ac060baac19ff3cf7a58c96e286dae10bafea7ce5f768e1e94c6"
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 440 (193rd) — An Act to recall elected officials in the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea

By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 440) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (by vote of the town) for legislation to recall elected officials in the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea. Election Laws. [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/S440.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
- Ann-Margaret Ferrante — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** House concurred
- **2023-06-14** Hearing scheduled for 06/21/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2023-11-27** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-11-27** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2023-12-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-12-26** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-06-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-10-28** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-10-28** Read third `reading-3`
- **2024-10-28** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2969 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-10-28** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-10-30** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-11-25** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-11-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-11-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-12-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 245 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/f726ae07-ad68-4404-b695-7ef9e2a1f393`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).