republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/s-2459.md

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Bill	An Act relative to changing the terms board of selectmen and selectmen to the term select board in the town of Rockport	By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2459) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to changing the terms board of selectmen and selectmen to the term select board in the town of Rockport. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	S 2459	Massachusetts S 2459 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Bruce E. Tarr	1	16	0	2023-10-12	2024-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/94b3eca1-c4e2-40c7-8a66-0e6f3f36ce39	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2459	ab80a510f8a3c43a55cb4812bbac3ec0c176750c6e953f5f8b5bd2d3d257ae4f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2459 (193rd) — An Act relative to changing the terms board of selectmen and selectmen to the term select board in the town of Rockport

By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2459) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to changing the terms board of selectmen and selectmen to the term select board in the town of Rockport. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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

Sponsors

• Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
• Ann-Margaret Ferrante — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2023-10-12 Rules suspended
• 2023-10-12 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2023-10-16 House concurred
• 2023-11-07 Hearing scheduled for 11/14/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
• 2023-12-26 Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-18 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-01-22 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-01-22 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-25 Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee
• 2024-02-12 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-02-12 Rules suspended
• 2024-02-12 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-02-26 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Enacted passage
• 2024-02-29 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 43 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/94b3eca1-c4e2-40c7-8a66-0e6f3f36ce39. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).