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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the terms for members of the city of Somerville's Zoning Board of Appeals"
description: "By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1340) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Christine P. Barber, Mike Connolly and Erika Uyterhoeven (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation relative to the terms for members of the city of Somerville's Zoning Board of Appeals. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local approval received]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 1340"
citation: "Massachusetts S 1340 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patricia D. Jehlen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-10-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/558fa302-64de-4439-8c46-8fe5766b9cc5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S1340"
source_hash: "335c8d1515a4465f308239a700f27316aa65e7ef1a5840693e603cd583ebc215"
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 1340 (192nd) — An Act relative to the terms for members of the city of Somerville's Zoning Board of Appeals
By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1340) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Christine P. Barber, Mike Connolly and Erika Uyterhoeven (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation relative to the terms for members of the city of Somerville's Zoning Board of Appeals. 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/S1340.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Patricia D. Jehlen — primary (person)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Erika Uyterhoeven — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Connolly — 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** House concurred
- **2021-06-03** Hearing scheduled for 06/08/2021 from 11:00 AM-03:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-06-24** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-06** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-07-06** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-07-07** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-07-26** Rules suspended
- **2021-07-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-10-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-10-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-10-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-10-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 63 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/558fa302-64de-4439-8c46-8fe5766b9cc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).