---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to polling locations in the city of Gloucester"
description: "By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2544) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation relative to poll locations in the city of Gloucester. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2544"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2544 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-01-03"
last_action: "2024-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dc357593-39e9-4f58-a9d1-ddc2a73581e3"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2544"
source_hash: "4386f746e735fb8bf3d55bdc7e05c187eff02e314f59af6e02f51b7ff02dc3f5"
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 2544 (193rd) — An Act relative to polling locations in the city of Gloucester

By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2544) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation relative to poll locations in the city of Gloucester. Election Laws. [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/S2544.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
- Ann-Margaret Ferrante — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-03** Rules suspended
- **2024-01-03** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-04** House concurred
- **2024-02-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-04** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-03-04** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-03-28** Rules suspended
- **2024-03-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-04-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-04-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 81 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/dc357593-39e9-4f58-a9d1-ddc2a73581e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).