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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the City Council of the city of Somerville to appoint a clerk of committees and assistant clerks of committees"
description: "By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2307) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Christine P. Barber, Mike Connolly and Denise Provost (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the City Council of the city of Somerville to appoint a clerk of committees and assistant clerks of committees. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2307"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2307 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patricia D. Jehlen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-08-05"
last_action: "2020-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80123649-2303-4c28-ac66-95739c84fd39"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2307"
source_hash: "fa6ee162cc5d1f4edde8d0c2cae4afd8fae98e4d393bc787735c4192083ce609"
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 2307 (191st) — An Act authorizing the City Council of the city of Somerville to appoint a clerk of committees and assistant clerks of committees
By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2307) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Christine P. Barber, Mike Connolly and Denise Provost (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the City Council of the city of Somerville to appoint a clerk of committees and assistant clerks of committees. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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/191/S2307.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Patricia D. Jehlen — primary (person)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Denise Provost — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia D. Jehlen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-08-05** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-08** House concurred
- **2019-08-29** Hearing scheduled for 09/10/2019 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-2
- **2019-09-19** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-10-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-11-27** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-11-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-12-02** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2020-02-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-05-07** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-05-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-05-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-05-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 79 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80123649-2303-4c28-ac66-95739c84fd39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).