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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act validating the annual town meeting held in the town of Nahant"
description: "Senate, July 1, 2021 -- Message from His Excellency the Governor (pursuant to the provisions of Article II, Section 8, Paragraph 1, Clause (2) of the Amendments to the Constitution, as appearing in Article LXXXIX of said Amendments) recommending legislation to validate the annual town meeting held in the town of Nahant."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2487"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2487 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-07-01"
last_action: "2021-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bec521f4-c1a0-4b45-aef8-9b48400003c4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2487"
source_hash: "c887017269585b7329e053202cbe38aff4de068a2230efa0b536053285473126"
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 2487 (192nd) — An Act validating the annual town meeting held in the town of Nahant
Senate, July 1, 2021 -- Message from His Excellency the Governor (pursuant to the provisions of Article II, Section 8, Paragraph 1, Clause (2) of the Amendments to the Constitution, as appearing in Article LXXXIX of said Amendments) recommending legislation to validate the annual town meeting held in the town of Nahant.
## 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/S2487.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-07-01** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-06** House concurred
- **2021-07-26** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-26** Rules suspended
- **2021-07-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-07-29** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-07-29** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-08-02** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-08-12** Rules suspended
- **2021-08-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-08-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-08-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-08-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-08-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 45 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/bec521f4-c1a0-4b45-aef8-9b48400003c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).