---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the appointment of retired police officers in the town of Essex"
description: "SENATE, Monday, January 29, 2018 -- The committee on Public Service, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2077) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to the appointment of retired police officers in the town of Essex,- reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2271)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2271"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2271 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Public Service"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-01-29"
last_action: "2018-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ad66d0e-54fe-44e7-b814-c49af45b3023"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2271"
source_hash: "0c00f4bbeb5fbe400a94e8cf9c4df1f70fa5a126d0a0736eea93ff82a6289070"
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 2271 (190th) — An Act relative to the appointment of retired police officers in the town of Essex

SENATE, Monday, January 29, 2018 -- The committee on Public Service, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2077) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to the appointment of retired police officers in the town of Essex,- reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2271).

## 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/190/S2271.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-29** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2018-01-29** New draft of S2077
- **2018-01-29** Bill reported favorably by committee and and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-08** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-02-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-02-22** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2018-04-30** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-09-10** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-17** Rules suspended
- **2018-09-17** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2018-09-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-09-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-09-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 252 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ad66d0e-54fe-44e7-b814-c49af45b3023`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).