---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Scituate to appoint retired police officers as special police officers"
description: "Senate, July 13, 2023 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator O'Connor) for the Senate Bill authorizing the town of Scituate to appoint retired police officers as special police officers (Senate, No. 1710)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2424"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2424 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick M. O'Connor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-07-13"
last_action: "2023-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41a761b5-7a64-41b2-8d94-7d5de428c484"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2424"
source_hash: "be095ba57b6d57a83b7f891ad313ac1619b1d1f41557f19cc138b1717d9a8790"
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 2424 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Scituate to appoint retired police officers as special police officers

Senate, July 13, 2023 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator O'Connor) for the Senate Bill authorizing the town of Scituate to appoint retired police officers as special police officers (Senate, No. 1710).

## 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/S2424.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Patrick M. O'Connor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-07-13** New draft (O'Connor) of S1710
- **2023-07-13** Ordered to a third reading
- **2023-07-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-07-17** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2023-08-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-08-10** Rules suspended
- **2023-08-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-09-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-09-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-09-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 41 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/41a761b5-7a64-41b2-8d94-7d5de428c484`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).