---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the Cotuit Fire District"
description: "By Representative Diggs of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2258) of Kip A. Diggs relative to the Cotuit Fire District. Municipalities and Regional Government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 2258"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2258 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kip A. Diggs"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2026-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0acc076c-18b1-4a77-83c1-79b0c9a5f820"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2258"
source_hash: "ac2a14d28576984b0e08051375d73f55bf6f4cc603c3da852998bd3ffdbdb811"
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 2258 (194th) — An Act relative to the Cotuit Fire District

By Representative Diggs of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2258) of Kip A. Diggs relative to the Cotuit Fire District. 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/194/H2258.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kip A. Diggs — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Senate concurred
- **2025-05-05** Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2025-07-10** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-23** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-07-23** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-23** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-09-18** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-09-22** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-03-12** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-12** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2026-03-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-03-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-03-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 47 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0acc076c-18b1-4a77-83c1-79b0c9a5f820`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).