---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Berkley to recall elected officials"
description: "Senate, April 6, 2026 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Dooner) for the Senate Bill authorizing the town of Berkley to recall elected officials (Senate, No. 2552)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 3018"
citation: "Massachusetts S 3018 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly A. Dooner"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2026-04-06"
last_action: "2026-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a2ded5e-130e-42f8-9c23-b9dc2ab6e281"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S3018"
source_hash: "09700fe204d3e2b52c341ceedd63f240fd4fee0344571cb2f574c17a54f72121"
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 3018 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Berkley to recall elected officials

Senate, April 6, 2026 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Dooner) for the Senate Bill authorizing the town of Berkley to recall elected officials (Senate, No. 2552).

## 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/S3018.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kelly A. Dooner — primary (person)
- Norman J. Orrall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-04-06** New draft (Dooner) of S2552
- **2026-04-06** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2026-04-09** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2026-05-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-05-04** Rules suspended
- **2026-05-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-06-01** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-06-03** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-06-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-06-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 97 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/1a2ded5e-130e-42f8-9c23-b9dc2ab6e281`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).