---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the charter of the town of Wareham"
description: "Senate, June 10, 2024 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Pacheco) for the Senate Bill relative to the Wareham town charter (Senate, No. 2519)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2816"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2816 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marc R. Pacheco"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-06-10"
last_action: "2024-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a9851bd-0c34-4591-accb-ed32937b424f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2816"
source_hash: "64635eb772e41d340b635005ce229f8a5de81e7d16fe7a4a90c38a88daf4964b"
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 2816 (193rd) — An Act amending the charter of the town of Wareham

Senate, June 10, 2024 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Pacheco) for the Senate Bill relative to the Wareham town charter (Senate, No. 2519).

## 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/S2816.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Marc R. Pacheco — primary (person)
- Susan Williams Gifford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-06-10** Recommended new draft (Pacheco) for S2519
- **2024-06-10** Substituted as a new draft for S2519
- **2024-06-10** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-06-12** 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`
- **2024-07-25** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-07-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-07-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 146 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/4a9851bd-0c34-4591-accb-ed32937b424f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).