republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/s-2487.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing changing the name of board of selectmen to select board and the title of selectmen to select board member in the town of Charlton	By Mr. Fattman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2487) of Ryan C. Fattman, Peter J. Durant and Paul K. Frost (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize changing the name of board of selectmen to select board and the title of selectmen to select board member in the town of Charlton. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	S 2487	Massachusetts S 2487 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Ryan C. Fattman	1	15	0	2023-10-26	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/68537e40-7031-4caf-aaab-28d8eaa931c1	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2487	f3a2109c388fc3c36b4e5f593182b4770e7b6dcf5864dc3442b4be79f7a9f4d5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2487 (193rd) — An Act authorizing changing the name of board of selectmen to select board and the title of selectmen to select board member in the town of Charlton

By Mr. Fattman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2487) of Ryan C. Fattman, Peter J. Durant and Paul K. Frost (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize changing the name of board of selectmen to select board and the title of selectmen to select board member in the town of Charlton. 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

• Ryan C. Fattman — primary (person)
• Paul K. Frost — cosponsor (person)
• Peter J. Durant — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-10-26 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2023-10-30 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
• 2024-02-12 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-02-12 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-15 Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee
• 2024-03-14 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-03-14 Rules suspended
• 2024-03-14 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-03-25 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-28 Enacted passage
• 2024-03-28 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-04-04 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 70 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68537e40-7031-4caf-aaab-28d8eaa931c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).