---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act enabling the appointment of alternates to the Swampscott Conservation Commission"
description: "By Mr. Crighton, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 23) of Brendan P. Crighton (by a vote of the town) to enable the appointment of alternates to the Swampscott Conservation Commission. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 23"
citation: "Massachusetts S 23 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brendan P. Crighton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-11-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1d7611d-efb9-41ac-b93b-d3152e2bdec3"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S23"
source_hash: "c5fffbaf8d523c005acf3ee5f21b92adaacff0e1420d7f8cc091b51dc004f447"
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 23 (194th) — An Act enabling the appointment of alternates to the Swampscott Conservation Commission

By Mr. Crighton, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 23) of Brendan P. Crighton (by a vote of the town) to enable the appointment of alternates to the Swampscott Conservation Commission. 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/194/S23.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brendan P. Crighton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** House concurred
- **2025-05-05** Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2025-06-18** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-09-18** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **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 House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-10-16** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-11-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-11-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 63 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1d7611d-efb9-41ac-b93b-d3152e2bdec3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).