---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the home rule charter of the city of Easthampton"
description: "Senate, September 9, 2019 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Humason) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2229."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2331"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2331 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Donald F. Humason, Jr."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-09-09"
last_action: "2019-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69688e84-d8af-40c7-a54e-397568d66da5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2331"
source_hash: "8bc02685ac4040fb63392ebf37f13c469ca06495d60c0791f124227fdb7eb36a"
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 2331 (191st) — An Act amending the home rule charter of the city of Easthampton

Senate, September 9, 2019 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Humason) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2229.

## 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/191/S2331.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Donald F. Humason, Jr. — primary (person)
- Donald F. Humason, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-09-09** Recommended new draft (Humason) for S2229
- **2019-09-09** Substituted for S2229
- **2019-09-09** Ordered to a third reading
- **2019-09-09** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-09-12** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-09-12** Rules suspended
- **2019-09-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-09-18** Rules suspended
- **2019-09-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-09-19** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-09-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-09-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 75 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69688e84-d8af-40c7-a54e-397568d66da5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).