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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Somerville to repeal the provisions of Chapter 327 of the Acts of 2004 - An Act relative to public safety in the city of Somerville"
description: "By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1596) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Mike Connolly, Christine P. Barber and Erika Uyterhoeven (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city of Somerville to repeal the provisions of chapter 327 of the Acts of 2004 relative to public safety in the city of Somerville. Public Safety and Homeland Security. [Local approval received]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 1596"
citation: "Massachusetts S 1596 (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: "2022-10-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5541688-2dce-41b4-b70e-6fe52624c459"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S1596"
source_hash: "68f46cc3deb5ef65b37c56ef28e15fc67d13acf5a3d02043a8ba106da6c4e039"
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 1596 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the city of Somerville to repeal the provisions of Chapter 327 of the Acts of 2004 - An Act relative to public safety in the city of Somerville
By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1596) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Mike Connolly, Christine P. Barber and Erika Uyterhoeven (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city of Somerville to repeal the provisions of chapter 327 of the Acts of 2004 relative to public safety in the city of Somerville. Public Safety and Homeland Security. [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/S1596.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 Public Safety and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** House concurred
- **2021-07-15** Hearing scheduled for 07/21/2021 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-03-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-05-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-05-09** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-05-12** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2022-06-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-10-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-10-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-10-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 236 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5541688-2dce-41b4-b70e-6fe52624c459`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).