---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act changing the position of town clerk in the town of Wenham from an elected position to an appointed position"
description: "Senate, December 11, 2023 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Tarr) for the Senate Bill relative to appointing the town clerk of the town of Wenham (Senate, No. 2387)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2524"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2524 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-12-11"
last_action: "2024-02-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e98574c-a7db-4252-b5f4-868d43ca2bf8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2524"
source_hash: "1d793943eb91a3950b0dd36fe15b4b640e7f80ce696022d80e22561b8327cd90"
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 2524 (193rd) — An Act changing the position of town clerk in the town of Wenham from an elected position to an appointed position

Senate, December 11, 2023 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Tarr) for the Senate Bill relative to appointing the town clerk of the town of Wenham (Senate, No. 2387).

## 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/S2524.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
- Jerald A. Parisella — cosponsor (person)
- Sally P. Kerans — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-11** Recommended new draft (Tarr) for S2387
- **2023-12-11** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-11** Substituted for S2387
- **2023-12-11** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2023-12-14** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-01-02** Rules suspended
- **2024-01-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-01-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-02-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 10 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/3e98574c-a7db-4252-b5f4-868d43ca2bf8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).