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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Gloucester to appoint retired police officers as special police officers"
description: "Senate, June 17, 2021 Text of the Senate Bill authorizing the city of Gloucester to appoint retired police officers as special police officers (being the text of Senate, No. 34, printed as amended)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2479"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2479 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-06-17"
last_action: "2021-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/346eb884-93f2-4593-916b-a1cc2429fde8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2479"
source_hash: "2cb25525c6698d0b3f654f82f5d4a094ea57941036dc99042dee8d403829dc7b"
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 2479 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the city of Gloucester to appoint retired police officers as special police officers
Senate, June 17, 2021 Text of the Senate Bill authorizing the city of Gloucester to appoint retired police officers as special police officers (being the text of Senate, No. 34, printed as amended)
## 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/S2479.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Ann-Margaret Ferrante — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-17** Text of S34, printed as amended
- **2021-06-17** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2021-06-21** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2021-07-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-09-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-09-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-09-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-09-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 52 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/346eb884-93f2-4593-916b-a1cc2429fde8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).