---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act further regulating the Gloucester Fisheries Commission"
description: "Senate, July 28, 2025 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Tarr) for the Senate Bill establishing the Gloucester Fisheries Commission (Senate, No. 2507)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 2566"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2566 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-07-28"
last_action: "2025-10-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16582054-2b7c-45dd-a07c-fc3e57171812"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2566"
source_hash: "d9c019291cf4d596be0e1f827112109a778671f3833b84156f8f99bf9bc344f9"
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 2566 (194th) — An Act further regulating the Gloucester Fisheries Commission

Senate, July 28, 2025 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Tarr) for the Senate Bill establishing the Gloucester Fisheries Commission (Senate, No. 2507).

## 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/S2566.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-28** New draft (Tarr) of S2507
- **2025-07-28** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2025-07-30** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-08-28** Rules suspended
- **2025-08-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-10-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-06** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-10-06** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-10-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 42 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/16582054-2b7c-45dd-a07c-fc3e57171812`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).