---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to use more inclusive language for the Lanesborough board of selectmen"
description: "By Representative Barrett of North Adams, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2029) of John Barrett, III (by vote of the town) relative to changing the board of selectmen of the town of Lanesborough to a select board. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 2029"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2029 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Barrett, III"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-08-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/597cf1a0-c3d6-4258-bf72-b8d01b3ef2c8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H2029"
source_hash: "a5a9962d12e6dc7a6b6576f7915a0db23980caa68f01587c9105ace250b63635"
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 H 2029 (193rd) — An Act to use more inclusive language for the Lanesborough board of selectmen

By Representative Barrett of North Adams, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2029) of John Barrett, III (by vote of the town) relative to changing the board of selectmen of the town of Lanesborough to a select board. 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/193/H2029.pdf)

## Sponsors

- John Barrett, III — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Senate concurred
- **2023-04-04** Hearing scheduled for 04/11/2023 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
- **2023-05-04** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-05-18** Rules suspended
- **2023-05-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-05-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2023-07-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-08-10** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-08-10** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-08-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-08-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-08-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 30 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/597cf1a0-c3d6-4258-bf72-b8d01b3ef2c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).