---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act changing the board of selectmen in the town of East Bridgewater to a select board"
description: "By Mr. Brady, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2422) of Michael D. Brady, Gerard J. Cassidy and Alyson M. Sullivan-Almeida (by vote of the town) for legislation to change the board of selectmen in the town of East Bridgewater to a select board. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local approval received]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2422"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2422 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael D. Brady"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-07-13"
last_action: "2024-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/112c30d2-7266-4fa9-b930-cfb55d83600f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2422"
source_hash: "2e7d81f53630f672160554c0800a2ec12daaf1708c42a42f2b4880bd659bd28b"
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 2422 (193rd) — An Act changing the board of selectmen in the town of East Bridgewater to a select board

By Mr. Brady, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2422) of Michael D. Brady, Gerard J. Cassidy and Alyson M. Sullivan-Almeida (by vote of the town) for legislation to change the board of selectmen in the town of East Bridgewater 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/S2422.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Michael D. Brady — primary (person)
- Alyson M. Sullivan-Almeida — cosponsor (person)
- Gerard J. Cassidy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-07-13** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-17** House concurred
- **2023-09-05** Hearing scheduled for 09/07/2023 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2023-10-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-10-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-06-03** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-06-03** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-06-05** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-01** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-07-01** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-01** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-07-17** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-07-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-07-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 136 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/112c30d2-7266-4fa9-b930-cfb55d83600f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).