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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to amend the Attleboro city charter by making all gender references therein gender neutral"
description: "By Mr. Hawkins of Attleboro, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2169) of James K. Hawkins and Adam J. Scanlon (with the approval of the mayor and municipal council) that the city of Attleboro be authorized to amend the charter of said city by making all gender references therein gender neutral. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 2169"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2169 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James K. Hawkins"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-12-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9ff914a-0699-4e14-a1c2-d5d7939325f9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H2169"
source_hash: "e90825718d3c7c74662c9e865c0fc5f4e99e350e073c4a771e74dfd7f1eb5afc"
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 H 2169 (192nd) — An Act to amend the Attleboro city charter by making all gender references therein gender neutral
By Mr. Hawkins of Attleboro, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2169) of James K. Hawkins and Adam J. Scanlon (with the approval of the mayor and municipal council) that the city of Attleboro be authorized to amend the charter of said city by making all gender references therein gender neutral. 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/192/H2169.pdf)
## Sponsors
- James K. Hawkins — primary (person)
- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Senate concurred
- **2021-05-14** Hearing scheduled for 05/17/2021 from 12:00 PM-12:01 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2021-05-24** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-06-03** Rules suspended
- **2021-06-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-08-16** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-08-19** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2021-10-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-12-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-12-16** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-12-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-12-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-12-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 111 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9ff914a-0699-4e14-a1c2-d5d7939325f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).