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---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act ratifying the town meeting of the town of Rowley"
description: "Senate, October 12, 2021 -- Message from His Excellency the Governor (pursuant to Article II, Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation ratifying the town meeting of the town of Rowley"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2550"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2550 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-10-12"
last_action: "2022-01-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5dcaa051-3701-451e-a897-d8b3af1a245f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2550"
source_hash: "d0f42d8684422e21eef9c936d746088ade557acba76a0e4207d6f6c7757638e9"
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 2550 (192nd) — An Act ratifying the town meeting of the town of Rowley
Senate, October 12, 2021 -- Message from His Excellency the Governor (pursuant to Article II, Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation ratifying the town meeting of the town of Rowley
## 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/S2550.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-10-12** Read and referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-13** House concurred
- **2021-10-15** Hearing scheduled for 10/20/2021 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-11-22** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-11-22** Rules suspended
- **2021-11-22** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-12-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-12-09** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-12-09** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-12-23** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-12-23** Rules suspended
- **2021-12-23** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-01-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-01-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-01-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-01-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 2 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/5dcaa051-3701-451e-a897-d8b3af1a245f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).