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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for a gender-neutral charter in the city of Somerville"
description: "Senate, October 17, 2022 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Jehlen) for the Senate Bill providing for a gender-neutral charter in the City of Somerville (Senate, No. 2524)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 3129"
citation: "Massachusetts S 3129 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patricia D. Jehlen"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-10-17"
last_action: "2022-12-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3397935-4c98-47ca-844d-cb8e0fba193b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S3129"
source_hash: "fb248e157242d87f07c034574285531c6ba34c9c54769b9cadc2863b647f08eb"
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 3129 (192nd) — An Act providing for a gender-neutral charter in the city of Somerville
Senate, October 17, 2022 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Jehlen) for the Senate Bill providing for a gender-neutral charter in the City of Somerville (Senate, No. 2524).
## 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/S3129.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.
- **2022-10-17** New draft (Jehlen) for S2524
- **2022-10-17** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-10-20** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-10-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-10-27** Rules suspended
- **2022-10-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-12-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-12-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-12-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 312 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/b3397935-4c98-47ca-844d-cb8e0fba193b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).