republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/s-440.md

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Bill	An Act to recall elected officials in the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea	By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 440) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (by vote of the town) for legislation to recall elected officials in the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	S 440	Massachusetts S 440 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Bruce E. Tarr	1	20	0	2023-02-16	2024-12-04	openstates	ocd-bill/f726ae07-ad68-4404-b695-7ef9e2a1f393	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S440	615176619814ac060baac19ff3cf7a58c96e286dae10bafea7ce5f768e1e94c6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 440 (193rd) — An Act to recall elected officials in the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea

By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 440) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (by vote of the town) for legislation to recall elected officials in the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea. Election Laws. [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.

• 2023-02-16 Referred to the committee on Election Laws referral-committee
• 2023-02-16 House concurred
• 2023-06-14 Hearing scheduled for 06/21/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
• 2023-11-27 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-11-27 Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee
• 2023-12-26 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2023-12-26 Rules suspended
• 2023-12-26 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-05-06 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-09 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-06-13 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-10-28 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-10-28 Read third reading-3
• 2024-10-28 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2969 amendment-passage
• 2024-10-28 Passed to be engrossed passage
• 2024-10-30 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-11-25 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-11-27 Enacted passage
• 2024-11-27 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-12-04 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 245 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f726ae07-ad68-4404-b695-7ef9e2a1f393. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).