---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Milton to establish a special purpose stabilization fund"
description: "By Mr. Walter F. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 24) of Walter F. Timilty and William Driscoll (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Milton to establish a special purpose stabilization fund. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 24"
citation: "Massachusetts S 24 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walter F. Timilty"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-02-21"
last_action: "2017-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b47ae6d2-f55c-496c-a83e-e6853134bc56"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S24"
source_hash: "d05a6603004ad6cdb41c497d2ebeb0dc6272b8fe9cad2434cf3a4e06f3e2611b"
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 24 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Milton to establish a special purpose stabilization fund

By Mr. Walter F. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 24) of Walter F. Timilty and William Driscoll (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Milton to establish a special purpose stabilization fund. 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/190/S24.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Walter F. Timilty — primary (person)
- William Driscoll — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-21** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** House concurred
- **2017-03-23** Hearing scheduled for 03/28/2017 from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM in A2
- **2017-03-30** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Rules suspended
- **2017-03-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-04-27** Taken out of the Order of the Day
- **2017-04-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-05-01** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-05-25** Rules suspended
- **2017-05-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-07-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-07-06** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-07-06** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-07-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 43 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b47ae6d2-f55c-496c-a83e-e6853134bc56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).